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Power lifting champion accuses police chief of sitting on report
A power lifting champion has accused the acting Police Commissioner of failing to investigate a report he filed five months ago involving threats by a member of the police force. Francis Spiteri, 65,...
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Karmenu Vella bids farewell to Parliament after 38 years
Updated 9.18 pm - Labour MP Karmenu Vella brought the curtain down on a long parliamentary career tonight when he resigned in order to take up his new post as European Commissioner. Mr Vella was first...
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Biker seriously injured in Marsalforn, two cars overturn
A 21 year old biker suffered grievous injuries in a traffic accident in Marsalforn Road, Gozo, this afternoon. The police said the collision took place at about 4 pm. and involved a Honda Xr 125...
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Sharpener’s future is a stab in the dark
Salvu tas-Skieken stands in the huge doorway of his tiny workshop in St Paul Street, Valletta. A woman comes up to him and from her bag takes out what looks like a parcel wrapped in cloth. He nods,...
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Maltese Cross investors hold MFSA responsible for losses
Forty-two clients of Maltese Cross Financial Services Limited filed a judicial protest against the Malta Financial Services Authority holding it responsible for the losses they suffered. The clients...
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PV panels contract: George Pullicino says police have not yet asked for his...
Former Resources Minister George Pullicino said today he has not yet been requested by the police to give his version of the facts a week after he asked them to investigate a solar energy contract...
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Lightning strikes
Last night's lightning inspired reader Andrea Muscat to take the photos in the slide show above. The photos were taken from Msida facing the south-west.
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'Nothing ruled out on Armier boathouses' - Parliamentary Secretary
The Parliamentary Secretary responsible for public lands, Michael Falzon, this evening agreed with Alternattiva representative Carmel Cacopardo that an agreement on the Armier boathouses should not be...
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PN reacts as Moody's report on Malta
Updated - Adds PN reaction - Moody’s ratings agency has reiterated Malta’s A3 credit rating with a positive outlook. It said in its annual report on Malta that the rating was supported by a ‘healthy...
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Update 2 - Air Malta halves its losses, eyes post-restructuring scenario
Updated - Adds comments by CEO - Air Malta said today that it halved its losses during the financial year which ended at the end of March 2014 and it expects to maintain its position for the year...
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Malta-Gozo bridge/tunnel studies broadened to include 'other alternatives'
The studies into the possibility of having a bridge or a tunnel to link Malta and Gozo have been widened to include other alternatives, Gozo Minister Anton Refalo told Nationalist MP Chris Said in...
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Polish girl, 18, died from untreated bowel infection
A polish language student who was found dead in a hotel room yesterday had suffered Septicemia following an untreated bowel infection, an autopsy established today. The girl, 18, had been complaining...
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Marsa power station: The beginning of the end
Vents from the oldest part of the Marsa power station are being dismantled as part of the works to make way for a new distribution centre. The section, erected in 1953, is completely underground and...
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Thieves targeting electricity cables for the copper
Tens of households have ended up without power over the past few weeks, sparking an intensive police investigation into the theft of live overhead electricity cables. The cables have been cut away and...
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Mallia warns of disciplinary action against those leaking police information
Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia this evening warned that police officers who leaked information which was given to them by virtue of their appointment could face disciplinary action. He made his...
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Girl, 18, found dead
An 18-year-old Polish language student was found dead in her hotel room in Sliema this morning. Informed sources said it appeared that the woman died of natural causes but the police are awaiting the...
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UK refusal to support migrant rescue 'unsurprising'
Britain has never been at the forefront of search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean so its refusal to help prevent migrants from drowning marks no real change, according to human rights...
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Warning over brown beans
Nigeria Taste brown beans packaged in bags of 1 kilo, 1.5 kilos and 4 kilos are not to be consumed due to risk of contamination from aluminium phosphide which can be can be highly toxic, the...
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Update 2: Nationalist Party seriously concerned about Air Malta's future -...
The Nationalist Party is seriously concerned about the future of Air Malta, party leader Simon Busuttil said today during a meeting with the Federated Association of Travel & Tourism Agents. Dr...
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Opposition to propose financial compensation to political parties for...
The Opposition is to move an amendment to the Party Funding Bill for financial compensation by the state to those political parties which benefit less from the state than others. PN General Secretary...
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