Weather causes havoc
The rainy weather accompanied by strong winds is causing havoc all around the island with slow moving traffic at practically all major road networks, mostly caused by several minor accidents which are...
View ArticleBirdLife seeks hunting ban in nature protection areas
BirdLife Malta today published a map that illustrates the huge increase in the area of countryside that, it said, would be safely accessible to the public if Malta’s nature protection areas were...
View ArticleAir France offers on Malta-Toulouse route
Air France is today launching its new economy offer, a new range of fares to 58 destinations on the Toulouse route. Starting today, for travel February 6, customers flying from Malta to Toulouse can...
View ArticleSelling Malta as ideal destination to the Spanish
Malta’s rich cultural and historical heritage has been beautifully showcased in two high quality publications promoting it as an ideal cultural destination for the Spanish. The Malta Tourism...
View ArticleInsurance gets UK dent specialists to help repair hail damaged cars
Atlas Insurance said this evening it received around 330 claims from clients whose cars had been damaged, reaching an estimated cost of €500,000. It said it called in teams of UK dent specialists who...
View ArticleEFA: Young people not interested in the past - would have called election...
Youngsters are not interested in what happened in the 1980s, former President and Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami says in an interview today. “My own strong belief is there’s no going back... I...
View ArticleIndustrial tribunal chairman resigns
George Borg Cardona has resigned from chairman of one of the industrial tribunals, the Justice Ministry said in a three-line statement this evening. No reason for the resignation was given.
View ArticleVictim's parents reply to judicial letter
The parents of a boy who was bullied at school a year and a half ago filed a judicial letter in court today, replying to another letter filed by the parents of one of the accused on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleSpreading the word of God through the social media
Archbishop Paul Cremona is "spreading the word of God" through social media for the very first time as he celebrates his 67th birthday today. "God told us to spread his word. In the past they did this...
View ArticleSan Gwann road resurfacing
Asphalting works are currently underway at the roundabout junction near Mater Dei Hospital towards the Foster Clark's factory, Transport Malta said. There is no access for vehicles to San Gwann...
View ArticleInterview with Eddie Fenech Adami tomorrow
Former President and Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami will speak about the election campaign in tomorrow’s edition of The Sunday Times. In an interview carried out this morning, the Nationalist icon...
View ArticleMore details of 1993 claims against Frank Sammut
Details have emerged of how Frank Sammut, the former Enemalta director at the centre of commissions-for-oil-purchases claims, had faced similar accusations in 1993. The Commission Against Corruption...
View ArticleMan dies on route bus
An elderly man died on a bus this evening in Zabbar. The case took place at about 9 p.m. The bus driver said the man appeared to have fallen ill. Passengers alerted him to what had happened but the...
View ArticleFormer bidder not surprised White Rocks complex failed
Paul Abela, director of a company shortlisted to build a tourist complex at White Rocks before the government started talks with a UK company about a sports complex, has said he was always sceptical...
View ArticleMalta used in Canadian company's bribes to Gaddafi son
A son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi allegedly received 120 million euros ($162 million) in bribes for giving major contracts in Libya to SNC-Lavalin Inc , Canada's biggest engineering and...
View ArticleFinishing Dock One project is a priority – Muscat
Labour will finish Cospicua’s Dock One project, rebuild the Birżebbuġa waterpolo pitch and construct a pedestrian crossing on the Mrieħel Bypass, according to Joseph Muscat. In a whirlwind tour of the...
View ArticleRescued dogs to be handed back to their former owner
Forty-nine dogs rescued last August from cramped cages and squalid conditions in a Balzan home will be handed back to their “reformed” owner this week, the Animal Welfare Department confirmed. The...
View ArticleMass rallies, education and the beauty of nature
An extended slideshow of Seven Days Through The Lens will be uploaded weekly on Timesofmalta.com
View ArticlePress digest
The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press. The Sunday Times says that Enemalta was advised by KPMG to raise power tariffs in 2001 but the government refused. It also carries...
View ArticleFrazzled tempers lead to immigration office fracas
Scuffles broke out outside the Immigration Office in Valletta yesterday after some migrants waiting for an e-residence permit decided to jump the long queue. Police had to be called to control the...
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