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Barrakka attack attendant is reinstated – but not at lift
The Barrakka lift attendant who assaulted a German man while on duty has returned to work with Transport Malta but is not deployed at the lift. Mario Antonelli, 45, was suspended immediately after the...
View ArticleEx-footballer’s drugs charge
A former football player was yesterday charged in connection with the discovery of almost a kilogram of cocaine in 2007. Daddy Augustine Okeke, 33, from Lagos and residing in Buġibba, was charged with...
View ArticleEngerer sues PN website
Former Sliema councillor Cyrus Engerer yesterday filed a libel suit against Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and PN president Marthese Portelli over an article on the PN’s election website. The article,...
View ArticleHeirs given man’s estate
A magistrate ruled yesterday that a man who vanished from his home in Victoria 11 years ago should be presumed dead and his heirs could take possession of his estate. Magistrate Josette Demicoli heard...
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Hail-damaged cars treated
Mechanical Engineering students from Mcast have paid a visit to Burmarrad Commercials, where they met technicians from the UK who are applying a paintless dent removal process on vehicles damaged by...
View ArticleTrafigura and Total are barred from fuel tenders
Enemalta’s oil purchasing board has barred international commodities giants Trafigura and Total from bidding for fuel tenders, in view of their alleged connection to a series of oil deals under...
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Leah back for cancer treatment
Leah Xuereb, the four-year-old cancer fighter who underwent life-saving treatment last year, has had to return to hospital but is recovering well and looking “fantastic”, according to her parents. In...
View ArticlePL leader evasive on drugs case
Joseph Muscat yesterday sidestepped a question regarding the different versions given by him and the PL deputy leader over what the Opposition leader knew about a drugs case at a Labour Party club. Dr...
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Fenech denies receiving €5,000 gift from George Farrugia
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech has denied a claim by Labour MP Evarist Bartolo that George Farrugia, the person at the heart of the oil procurement scandal, handed him a gift worth over €5,000 soon...
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Muscat accepts Joe Cordina resignation, says finance minister has to explain...
Labour leader Joseph Muscat said this evening that Finance Minister Tonio Fenech had to explain why he accepted a gift worth over €5000 from George Farrugia soon after he being minister responsible...
View ArticleDirectors insist fiduciary company was not involved in oil scandal
The three directors of Intershore Fiduciary Services have denied that the company was ever involved in the oil procurement scandal. Joe Cordina, Dr Martin Fenech and Charles Scerri issued a statement...
View ArticleUntested AD
We’re hearing a lot these days about the utopia we can expect after the election and about ‘transparency’ in government with regard to all things affecting us, the public. Both main parties are trying...
View ArticlePseudo marriages
Marriage can only be contracted by a man and a woman. A union between two persons of the same sex, call it what you will – civil partnership, civil union – is definitely not marriage. In any case, if...
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Marsa fountain in danger
I fully concur with John Seychell Navarro on the state of the Marsa horse drinking fountain. I took a photo of it to show readers its shameful state and how urgently restoration works are needed. Such...
View ArticleKM’s Flypass shambles
Air Malta is restructuring to achieve competitiveness and efficiency. No doubt, some services are admirable. But I need to ask whether someone is actually working in the Flypass section. I have been...
View ArticleA love letter to Arriva (2)
Many thanks to the honest driver who returned a video camera and an umbrella, which we had left behind on the bus doing route 42 in the morning of February 15. On realising that we had left our...
View ArticleDaily currency report
The US dollar surged and hit three-month highs against a basket of currencies as central bankers in the US appear concerned that open-ended asset purchases will leave its economy with long-term scars....
View ArticleItalian slump sends European shares lower
A sharp fall on the Milan stock market hit European shares yesterday, with uncertainty over this weekend’s Italian elections pushing a key eurozone equity index to its lowest level since the start of...
View ArticleTalk of currency wars
Over the years we have grown accustomed to listening about the value of our currency (the Malta lira previously and the euro now), without giving much thought to what the impact of an increase or...
View ArticleStrong anti-corruption mechanisms
As the general election gets closer, it is corruption and other ‘scandals’ that are taking centre stage of the campaign, rather than the programmes proposed by the political parties. This is no...
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