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Update 3: Malta can't be expected to step in for irresponsible shipowners - PM
Malta has sent army medics on board the tanker Salamis to assess the situation. In an ongoing operation, the army is also supplying food and water to the migrants, one of whom is said to have suffered...
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Update 8: Government requests ship master to return to rescue location
(Adds government's letter) The Government has sent a letter signed by the Attorney General to Trevor Sullivan, the local agent of the tanker waiting outside Maltese waters with 102 immigrants on...
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86 migrants arrive
A group of 86 migrants was brought to Malta on board a patrol boat this morning after having been rescued off the coast. The migrants - 65 men, 17 women and four children, were taken to the AFM...
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Temperatures rise at the VAT Office
A number of VAT Department workers left their desks in protest this morning over a persistent air conditioning problem. They said the air-conditioning system had not worked properly since the...
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Valletta café owner takes issue to the court
The owner of a Valletta café overlooking Grand Harbour is determined to save his business by resorting to court to prove that a stone structure, ostensibly built on the grounds occupied by his outlet,...
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Lija fireworks show will return next year
Lija’s lauded fireworks display will return to the skies next year after its pyrotechnics were finally granted the necessary licence, Times of Malta has learnt. Last November, fireworks enthusiasts...
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French students broke bench for barbeque wood and to fix bed
Two French students were taken to court today and ordered to pay the costs of a bench then vandalised in St Julian's. The two were arrested after a tip-off to the police. Jean Fontaine Alexis Marius...
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PM denies any 'horse-trading' for resolution of migrants impasse
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning denied that there head been any 'horse-trading' with the Italian government before it agreed to take 102 migrants who were stranded on a tanker that was...
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‘No drink for me, thank you, I’m an alcoholic...’
Until a few years ago, Joseph* drank 24 pints of beer and three cartons of wine every day and saw nothing wrong with that. Alcohol had been his best friend since he first sipped it aged 12, and...
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Updated - Government accepts Busuttil call for summer debate on oil...
Updated 1.09 p.m. The government said today that it was in favour of having meetings of the Public Accounts Committee during the summer to discuss the Auditor-General's report on oil procurement. The...
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Updated - Migrants stand-off ends as tanker heads for Syracuse - new group...
A stand-off of almost three days ended early this morning when a tanker carrying 102 migrants lifted anchor and headed for Syracuse after having been blocked just outside Maltese waters on Sunday...
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Update 3 - Muscat dissociates himself as commenters protest and insult...
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning dissociated himself from insulting comments made by Maltese commenters who flooded the facebook page of EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom. The...
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‘Tattooed and pierced ...but no less human’
Six campaigners are tattooed, pierced and on a mission to change negative perceptions of body art and adornment. Tired of suspicious looks and what they perceive as prejudice, they have started a...
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Nigerian found carrying cocaine capsules
A 24-year-old Nigerian who lives in Trieste was arrested after he was found carrying some 500 grammes of cocaine in capsules. He arrived in Malta on a flight from Brussels. The find was made by...
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Senior VAT Inspector cleared of bribery charge
Paul Scicluna, a Senior VAT Inspector and head of Prosecution at the VAT Department, has been cleared of bribery charges by a court. Magistrate Antonio Micallef Trigona said when delivering sentence...
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Pair reveal glimpse of life in the silent world of the deaf
You are in an emergency and frantically dial 112 on your mobile phone but being deaf, you are unable to communicate. Fortunately, Annabelle Cauchi and Steven Mulvaney have never found themselves in...
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The Maltese Falcon statue to be auctioned
A lead statue of a falcon used in the Hollywood blockbuster The Maltese Falcon is expected to fetch over one million Sterling at auction The Daily Express reported how in the 1941 hit film, the...
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Thief who was chased by boy is jailed for 30 months
A man who last month stole a handbag from a car and was chased by a 12-year-old boy before being arrested, was today jailed for 30 months. Malcolm Mercieca, 28, of no fixed address, admitted to a...
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Prospero Grech had warned Cardinals of schism in the Church
Cardinal Prospero Grech cautioned fellow cardinals against the dangers of a schism within the Church and made a call for unity ahead of the Pope’s installation, according to a leaked document...
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MTA orders closure of illegal restaurant
An illegally-developed farmhouse, Scicluna Farmhouse, operating as an unlicensed restaurant in Gudja has been ordered to shut down by the tourism authority. The demand for closure, which followed an...
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