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Students evacuated because of restaurant fire
Students of Inlingua School of Languages in Bisazza Street have been evacuated as members of the Civil Protection Department put out a fire at Dee Goose Restaurant, situated just beneath it. A...
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Power cut leaves Hamrun feast enthusiasts fuming
Hundreds of Hamrun feast enthusiasts were left fuming last night following a power cut which sent months of preparations down the drain. This was the second consecutive power cut in Hamrun this week...
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Wrongly accused man takes case to European Court of Human Rights
Darryl Luke Borg, the man who spent three nights in jail for a crime he never committed, has filed a case before the European Court of Human Rights after a Maltese court awarded him a paltry €150...
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WATCH: Panic at Ghadira beach as parachute breaks loose from boat in storm
Two paragliders were injured after their parachute broke loose from a speedboat as a freak storm swept through Malta. Shocked beachgoers watched on helplessly as they watched the drama unfold and...
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Government untangling webs left by previous administration - Prime Minister
(Adds Dr Fenech Adami's statement) Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning asked whether Opposition leader Simon Busuttil would be taking action against his deputy Beppe Fenech Adami now that it had...
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The ‘untouchables’ who rule the coast at Delimara
Bird lures imitating the calls of protected waterbirds were on Friday confiscated by the police from a Delimara site following a report by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter, the latest in a string...
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Man grievously injured in fall
A 46-year-old man from Dingli was grievously injured yesterday evening when he fell from a height of around one storey at a residence in Dingli. The police said the accident happened at 6.30pm in Triq...
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One day a cliff crashed down to the beach below
A cloud of dust engulfed Golden Bay and a huge wave slammed against the beach, pushing terrified swimmers up the shore. Some thought it was an earthquake, but Peter Borg, who had just rented a...
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Drama at sea, drama on stage - Times of Malta's pictures of the week
Times of Malta presents a selection of its photographers' choice of their best photos over the past days.
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Government sought to buy palazzo in Gaffarena link
The government was until last March actively seeking to acquire Palazzo Verdelin in Valletta, in spite of its categorical denials, The Sunday Times of Malta can reveal. These internal discussions...
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‘Maltese flag will fly over the stadium after I die’
Fr Alberto Gauci’s blue eyes glisten as he describes how the Maltese flag flies alongside that of Honduras at the spanking new stadium that seems to rise from the mud of the dusty town in Olancho. “I...
View ArticleMater Dei in crisis as blocked beds increase to unprecedented 140 - doctors
The number of social cases at Mater Dei Hospital has increased to 140 leading to a crisis, the Medical Association of Malta said this morning. It said in a statement that practically all emergency...
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Two people injured in Rabat crash
Two people were injured in a traffic accident in Triq is-Saqqajja, Rabat at 3.30am. The police said the accident happened when a 20-year-old woman from Attard lost control of the Ford Ka she was...
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Enthusiast says attitudes on tattoos still negative
The tattoo scene in Malta has evolved since 1991, when the late Bobby Wood was jailed for a month for opening a tattoo parlour, but negative attitudes persist, according to enthusiast Damian Allison....
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Clergy abuse victims support group calls on Canadian authorities to apprehend...
An international support group for clergy abuse victims, Snap, has called on Canadian authorities to move to apprehend Godwin Scerri before he disappeared. Mr Scerri, a defrocked priest and a member...
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Swimming inadvisable in parts of Spinola Bay
Swimming in parts of Spinola Bay, St Julians, is not recommended until further notice because of a sewage overflow , the Environmental Health Directorate said. It said information signs were being put...
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Archbishop ‘dead set against’ plan for priory supermarket
Controversial plans to turn the Carmelite priory garden in Balluta into a supermarket are being strongly opposed by the Archbishop who is not ruling out legal proceedings to stop the development. Mgr...
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‘I have never seen anything like this in 28 years’
There was no negligence in the incident which led to a parachute cord attached to a winch boat to snap with two suspended paragliders dangling on, the water sports operator insisted. Godfrey Bartolo,...
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‘We didn’t realise the danger when we were up there’
The Sunday Times of Malta will tomorrow carry an interview with the two youths involved in the dramatic paragliding incident at Ghadira this afternoon. The two siblings, aged 16 and 20, say they did...
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‘We didn’t realise the danger when we were up there’
As beachgoers screamed in shock when the rope connecting two British paragliders to a speedboat snapped in a sudden storm yesterday, all Anthony Nisbet could think about was how he and his sister...
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