Security Service is probed by police over missing documents
Police are investigating the alleged disappearance of documents indicating corruption at Enemalta after they were passed to the Security Service in August 2011. The investigation was triggered by...
View ArticleDriver stopped and robbed
A man who was driving at Hal Farrug road last night was stopped and robbed after his assailants sprayed pepper spray at him. The incident happened at about 2 a.m. The 35-year-old man from Siggiewi was...
View ArticleThe way forward is actually not so difficult - Michael Gonzi
Nationalist MP Michael Gonzi has attributed 'micro factors' as the cause of the PN's heavy electoral defeat, and says the way forward for the PN is actually not so difficult. Writing in his blog, he...
View ArticleMepa stops Polidano works, again. Muscat - 'Illegal development will not be...
Mepa said this afternoon that it had, again, stopped illegal development works which were being carried out in Hal Farrug, adjacent to PoliGas Ltd. The illegal works, by construction magnate Charles...
View ArticleMinisters find bare offices
Ministers have spoken of how they found empty offices. There were no papers, laptops, computers or even stationary said minister Leo Brincat. “In the past PCs had their hard drives cleaned up, this...
View ArticleMarriage annulled after parents' excessive interference
A couple have had their marriage annulled after a court upheld the wife’s plea of excessive interference by the husband’s parents. His parents would spend the evenings at the couple’s home, even...
View ArticleCar ablaze in San Gwann
A brown Volvo was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Arson is not suspected. The car was parked in front of a petrol station in Birkirkara Road, St Julian's, under the Regional Road bridge. (Youtube...
View ArticleDriver's theft report was false - police
Police investigations have established that a man's claim that he was stopped and robbed while driving at Hal Farrug early yesterday was false. The 35-year-old from Siggiewi claimed two men stopped...
View ArticleBusuttil resigns from the European Parliament
Simon Busuttil has resigned from the European Parliament following his election to the Maltese parliament. He had been a member of the EP since 2004 but had promised to step down if he was elected to...
View ArticlePuli denies Galdes office mess claim
Former Parliamentary Secretary Clyde Puli has denied an allegation by Roderick Galdes, who holds a similar post in the new government, that the offices Mr Galdes took over from him were found in a...
View ArticleTeenage party is planned despite organiser's conviction
Party organiser Joel Caruana, the man convicted of defiling two minors, is planning to organise another teen event. Mr Caruana, the owner of I Love Music Events, is advertising the teen event on...
View ArticleVideo - Italian man injured in Gnejna fall
A 58-year-old Italian man was injured when he fell in Gnejna this afternoon. His condition is not yet known. The police said the man was looking down from a high spot at around 2.30pm when he fell,...
View ArticleOPM tells Mepa to suspend all meetings
The Government has told Mepa to suspend meetings until it receives new instructions from the Office of the Prime Minister. The Mepa board, which decides on larger planning applications, was due to...
View ArticleThief caught in the act
A man who was seen stealing an elderly woman's handbag near Boffa Hospital in Floriana was followed to the bus terminus and held by two men early this afternoon. The thief reportedly suffered slight...
View ArticleMuscat talks to US Vice-President in Rome
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Mrs Muscat chat with US Vice-President Joe Biden at St Peter's Square after the Pope's inauguration Mass this morning. President George Abela is on left. Opposition...
View ArticlePope holds inauguration Mass - The Times pictorial supplement
Updated 2.15 p.m. Pope Francis inaugurated his papacy this morning with a Mass in front of hundreds of thousands of people and foreign leaders in St Peter's Square with a simplified rite that fuelled...
View ArticleChinese Navy ships to call at Malta
A Chinese Navy Task Force, consisting of two frigates and a replenishment ship will pay a port visit to Malta between March 26 and 30 at the invitation of the Armed Forces of Malta. The vessels are...
View ArticleFarrugia Sacco not seeking re-election as MOC president
Mr Justice Lino Farrugia Sacco is not seeking re-election as president of the Malta Olympic Committee. A call for nominations closed at noon yesterday and the only name submitted was that of...
View ArticleBaxter planning lay-offs
Baxter Malta has called an urgent meeting with the General Workers’ Union for later this morning. It is understood that the company, which produces medical consumables, is planning to lay off some 80...
View ArticleAir Malta takes over as Lufthansa cancels Frankfurt flight
Lufthansa has cancelled its scheduled flight from Frankfurt tomorrow because of industrial action, but Air Malta has offered to fly the passengers instead, informed sources said. The two airlines have...
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