Trump set to dominate Carnival? The Wall goes up at Nadur
It looks like Donald Trump will dominate this year's Carnival. A group of performers got an early start at the Nadur Carnival opening events, as the videos above and below by Marlene Xuereb/Facebook...
View ArticleFrom vodka to underwear - Customs announces sale
The Customs Department has announced a sale of various seized items including a large quantity of ceramic tiles, 18,000 pairs of shoes and 48,000 items of underwear. Other items will include a...
View Article€50 million project to add 640 social-housing units
A €50 million investment will see the first of 640 new social-housing units ready by the end of the year, the Social Solidarity Ministry said. This will be the first substantial drive in years by the...
View ArticleBirdLife volunteers had photographed culprit who shot down protected eagle
A hunter found himself in hot water when he turned up near a police patrol just as a protected eagle was shot down, but BirdLife volunteers who were close by quickly confirmed that he was not the one...
View ArticleUniversity decision on English proficiency test was hasty, PN says
A University decision for new students to take an English proficiency test and if necessary follow an English Communicative Aptitude Programme was taken in haste, the Nationalist Party said today....
View ArticleBoy, 7, fails to take school transport home
An investigation is underway by the Education Ministry to see why a seven-year-old Marsascala Primary student did not take the school transport at noon and was found in another locality, the...
View ArticleNexia BT publishes reply to Pana Committee questions
Nexia BT accountants Brian Tonna and Karl Cini could only answer six of 20 questions posed to them by MEPs investigating the Panama Papers data leak, citing their legal obligations to client...
View ArticleThird Panama company belonged to someone more important than Mizzi, Schembri...
The third Panama company belonged to someone who was far more important than Minister Konrad Mizzi and OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri because the name of its owner was not mentioned in writing, PN...
View ArticleWreck removed from Birzebbuġa
Workers from the Infrastructure Ministry over the past days removed the remains of a wooden launch which had run aground at St George's Bay,Birzebbuġa. Divers and a heavy duty crane were used to lift...
View ArticlePM Muscat 'lied' about Konrad Mizzi's audit for months - PN
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat lied last October when he said that an audit of his minister Konrad Mizzi's offshore company and trust was a "work in progress", the Nationalist Party said this afternoon....
View ArticleLaw under which teacher was sent to jail to be amended
Updated at 9pm with PN statement An amendment to the Criminal Code was this evening moved in Parliament by Justice Minister Owen Bonnici to amend the law which saw Dorianne Camilleri sentenced to five...
View ArticleBalcony appears on unique historic building in Valletta
Unauthorised works have been carried out on the unique historic structure of the Valletta Covered Market, a Grade 1 Scheduled building in the centre of the city, Din l-Art Ħelwa said. It said in a...
View ArticleEU hails progress in Malta's finances - says traffic congestion costing the...
The European Commission has praised the progress of Malta's economy but warned that public administration still suffers from some inefficiency, and access to finance continues to pose structural...
View ArticlePM proposes Europe should become the bitcoin continent
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat made five proposals today when speaking at the CEPS Ideas Lab conference in Brussels “Reconstructing the Union”. His first proposal was that Europe should become the...
View ArticleUniversity decision on English proficiency test was hasty, PN says
A University decision for new students to take an English proficiency test and if necessary follow an English Communicative Aptitude Programme was taken in haste, the Nationalist Party said today....
View Article'He could have been my own brother' - President expresses regret over...
President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca said this morning that the migrant who killed himself “could have been my own brother”. “Of course I am shocked and worried, with anyone who feels the need to take...
View ArticlePregnant salesgirl gets fright of her life as thief enters shop and demands...
A pregnant 24-year-old salesgirl from Birkirkara had the fright of her life this evening when a man wearing a hoodie and brandishing a knife entered the shop she was working in and asked for cash. The...
View ArticleOne car bomb blast victim may have been transporting device
One of the three car-bomb explosions in 2016 has still not been registered as a homicide, as police are still unsure whether the explosive device had been planted in the victim’s car or he himself had...
View ArticlePete Buttigieg gaining praise and support in race for US Democratic Party chair
Pete Buttigieg, an American politician of Maltese descent, has been gaining praise and building support in his bid for the chair of the Democratic Party in the United States, a position of huge...
View ArticleWatch: Malta may ask France to permanently return de Valette's dagger
A request to the French authorities to hand over the de Valette dagger for keeps, to have it on permanent display in Malta, is not being excluded by the government. The dagger and an ornamental sword...
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