Muscat says 'fabricated' documents contained data from 'some' electoral registry
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning reiterated claims that transcripts of documents linking his wife to Panama company Egrant had been falsified, insisting more than one piece of information did...
View ArticleWatch: Joseph Muscat, wife testify to clear names 'from the dirt'
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife Michelle this morning testified in front of the magistrate investigating allegations over their connection with Panama company Egrant is owned by Ms Muscat....
View ArticleValletta kiosks to get a wood and iron design
Kiosks to be set up at Valletta's Triton Square will have a simple iron and wood design, with restrictions placed on owners to ensure uniformity. Infrastructure Minister Joe Mizzi unveiled the...
View ArticleJustice in Malta only applies to the common people - EPP chairman
The European Peoples' Party this afternoon called on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to resign. “It is unprecedented that a Prime Minister of a country holding the Presidency of the EU is under formal...
View ArticleMalta's fruit and veg tops EU pesticide tests
Maltese fruit and veg are the most likely to contain illegal levels of pesticides in all of Europe, a new report has found. The European Food Safety Authority has confirmed that locally grown produce...
View ArticleEgrant saga gives financial services sector the jitters
The Egrant saga risks damaging the financial services sector unless it is resolved swiftly, practitioners in the field have cautioned. Franco Azzopardi, president of the Malta Institute of...
View ArticleGreens split over Egrant allegations
Former Alternattiva Demokratika chairman Michael Briguglio yesterday publicly urged his successor, Arnold Cassola, to put Malta before the party and attend today’s national demonstration on the...
View ArticleWatch: Egrant allegations made PL stronger than ever - Muscat
Updated 2pm - Added PN reply Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning insisted that the controversy fuelled by Daphne Caruana Galizia's allegations against his wife had made the Labour Party...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about magisterial inquiries
A magisterial inquiry, requested by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, is under way into the allegations made by Daphne Caruana Galizia that his wife, Michelle Muscat, owns a Panama-registered company,...
View ArticleNewly-appointed BA chairman passes away
George Mifsud, who was appointed Broadcasting Authority chairman earlier this month, passed away today. He was 68. Mr Mifsud founded one of Malta's main PR agencies, MPS – Marketing and Communications...
View ArticleDaphne Caruana Galizia: ‘I have a whistleblower and documents’
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has both “a whistleblower and documents” to back up her Egrant reports, she told The Sunday Times of Malta. Her allegations that the mysterious third Panama company...
View ArticleWatch: Serious failures found at Pilatus Bank
Serious failures in the prevention of money laundering were identified at Pilatus Bank in a 2016 report received by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). Pilatus Bank has been thrust into the...
View ArticlePresident has moral authority to ask Prime Minister to leave - Busuttil
Updated at 7.28pm with PL statement Opposition leader Simon Busuttil called on the President today to use her moral obligation to ask the Prime Minister to leave in the national interest in the wake...
View ArticleMalta on the brink of ‘historic’ minimum wage agreement - PM
Malta was on the brink of a historic agreement to raise the minimum wage, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this morning.Addressing a conference organised by the GWU, Dr Muscat said all those involved...
View ArticleWatch: Two hospitalised after car flips over in Dingli
A 77-year-old woman and a 79-year-old man, both from Dingli, were seriously injured this afternoon when their Mitsubishi Pajero Junior crashed and flipped over near Dingli. The accident happened...
View ArticleMan's claims about alleged Qawra temptress 'not credible', court finds
A woman accused of luring a man into her Qawra apartment with the promise of sex as ruse to rob him was today acquitted of the charges. Carmela Cini, 46, from St Paul's Bay, stood accused of...
View ArticleElectrogas power station is inaugurated as the 'cancer factory' is shut down
The new Electrogas power station, conceived in controversy and delivered two years late, was inaugurated this evening with a promise of cleaner air as the use of heavy fuel oil was consigned to...
View ArticleMan found in pool of blood in St Paul's Bay
A man was discovered lying on the ground in a pool of blood in St Paul's Bay yesterday evening, police said today. Police said they were called to Triq il-Korp tal-Pijunieri at around 7.15pm, where...
View ArticleMalta gets its first free legal clinic
Law students are offering advice to anyone who cannot afford to pay legal fees, having set up Malta’s first law clinic. Run by the University of Malta and the Chamber of Advocates, the law clinic...
View ArticleNo comment on police commissioner's fenkata from Home Affairs Minister
Home Affairs Minister Carmelo declined to comment on the police commissioner’s decision to participate in a fenkata while serious allegations of corruption were being made against the Prime Minister...
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