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Update 4: Call for bi-partisan approach to health; Dalli says he was stopped...
The government's advisor on health this morning called for a bi-partisan approach to the sector as he presented a report on Mater Dei which pinpointed management dysfunction as the cardinal problem at...
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Gozo Minister refuses to answer questions about loan
Gozo Minister Anton Refalo has refused to answer questions about the €830,371 loan listed in his 2012 ministerial declaration of assets, insisting that what he said was based on the truth. When he...
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NGOs invite public to defend right to healthy environment
Environment groups and citizens concerned that the government was not fulfilling its obligations to defend their right to a healthy environment were being invited to raise their voices in a protest...
View ArticlePM visits Maltese company in Miami
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat visited Maltese company SMS International Shore Operations at the Miami port cruise liner terminal. The company employs 600 people in Miami where it manages the passenger...
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Sliema parking scheme legal notice is repealed
The government has issued a legal notice to repeal another one issued in 2009 which had given the Sliema council the green light to introduce a parking scheme for residents. The new legal notice...
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Din l-Art Helwa deplores threats on council member
Din l-Art Helwa has expressed support with council member Stanley Farrugia Randon who, it said, was subjected to bullying tactics by Ta' Cenc developers at a Mepa hearing yesterday. During the...
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Facilitating the transition to retirement
Within 22 years the number of people over 65 is projected to shoot up to nearly 103,000 compared to 68,400 in 2011. A national active ageing policy being released tomorrow attempts to facilitate this...
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How love blossomed in pen friends section
In April of 1957 teenage Carmen Debattista leafed through The Sunday Times of Malta’s pen friends section and spotted a young Dutchman who wanted to get to know someone from Malta. She replied because...
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A little piece of Għaxaq is created in Guatemala
A local philanthropist has transformed a Guatemalan shanty town into a “Mini Għaxaq” to provide shelter to hundreds of homeless people. “These buildings have offered the people of San Miguel something...
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Alpa withdraws uniform directive
The pilots’ union has called on its members to report to work in full uniform as from tomorrow, withdrawing a directive it had given in August. In a statement, Alpa, congratulated CEO designate Louis...
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God blessed suffering and death - Archbishop
God became man to bless things that emerged from man’s sin, including suffering and death, Archbishop Paul Cremona said this afternoon. Mgr Cremona, who was leading the Diocesan celebration of Christ...
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Citizenship: Opposition willing to reach consensus, will not budge on...
Although the Opposition is willing to come to a consensus with the government on the citizenship scheme, it was not willing to budge on the principle that citizenship was not for sale, Opposition...
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Muscat had described lack of CHOGM details ‘irresponsible’
An article penned by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in 2003 on the cost estimates of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has come back to haunt him. The Office of the Prime Minister has so far...
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Lockerbie investigator asked for Maltese witnesses to be paid $3 million
The lead investigator in the Lockerbie bombing personally lobbied US authorities to pay two Maltese witnesses at least $3 million for their part in securing the conviction of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi,...
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Responsibility for shortcomings at Mater Dei has to be shouldered - Prime...
Someone has to shoulder responsibility for the shortcomings found at Mater Dei Hospital and the necessary investigations will be held to find who was responsible, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said...
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Seminar hears harrowing accounts of abuse on women
A seminar which is discussing rape and other violence against women this morning heard harrowing stories of abuse suffered by women in Malta, with a number of speakers also confirming the view...
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Accident victim wins compensation of €45,571
A driver who hit a man crossing the road during a feast in Zurrieq on the night of July 21, 2007 has been ordered to pay €45,571 in compensation. Carmen Abela was found to be 75 per cent responsible...
View ArticleShampoo down the drain
A magistrate has ordered that 21,024 bottles of fake Pantene pro-V shampoo must be destroyed after they were intercepted in a container at Malta Freeport. The decision was taken at the request of...
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Two Libyans found carrying 20,000 ecstasy pills
Two Libyan men have been arrested at Malta International Airport after arriving from Brussels carrying 20,000 ecstasy pills. 397 grams of cocaine were also found. The two, aged 21 and 22, are expected...
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Policemen testify how sergeant holding seized cash briefly 'disappeared'
Two police constables testified in court today how a police sergeant briefly disappeared after he was handed money seized from an Italian man during a search. The officers were testifying in the case...
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