Hoteliers discuss bus service plans with Arriva
Delegations from Arriva and the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) have held the first in a series of meetings to plan bus services in anticipation of the summer tourism season 2012....
View ArticleTop official denounces Vatican corruption: reports
A top Vatican official who is now the envoy to Washington denounced corruption and waste in the Holy See in a series of letters to Pope Benedict XVI, Italian media reported today. Carlo Maria Vigano...
View ArticleMotorist awarded €34,000 compensation for 2004 accident
A court has awarded a man injured in a traffic accident in 2004 more than €34,000 in damages. Mario Mifsud told the court that he had suffered a permanent disability after Roderick Azzopardi crashed...
View ArticleFranco Debono denies he was told to abstain
Franco Debono insisted this afternoon that it was "absolutely not true" that the prime minister had told him that he would not hold him responsible for the calling of an early election if he abstained,...
View ArticleSuperyachts bribery allegation case in court
The compilation of evidence against former Mimcol CEO Mario Mizzi, who stands charged with offering a bribe in his capacity as a public official, started this morning. In May 2010, the Prime Minister...
View ArticleUnions to hold Europe-wide protest
Trade unions have called an anti-austerity protest across the European Union on February 29, eve of an EU summit. "The slogan will be 'Enough is enough!' Austerity measures are not the only response...
View ArticleMinistry says Labour has poor grasp of economic situation
The Finance Ministry said this afternoon that claims by Labour spokesmen that the government was giving a wrong picture of the state of the economy only served to show their impressive detachment from...
View ArticleTwo accused of defiling girl, 13
Two men today pleaded not guilty to defiling a 13-year-old girl and offending public morals. During the separate arraignments today, their defence counsel, Andy Ellul and Vince Micallef, asked the...
View ArticleMSE Share Index back into negative territory
The local equity market reversed yesterday’s overall positive performance as the MSE Share Index retreated by 0.7% back to 3,061.536 points (the lowest level since 16 December 2011) as most of the...
View ArticleA Spade is a Spade is a Spade
The story of the 16 year old lesbian, who earlier this month was attacked by two boys in a Hamrun square, caused public uproar… and rightly so. When the story broke, it was reported that the attack...
View ArticleHATE, YOU SAY?
For some reason, this notion that there are hate campaigns going around has gained currency, helped not a little by the characterisation of the reaction in the blogosphere to Ms Grace Borg's...
View Article€13,000 worth of goods stolen from store at tal-Handaq
Three people aged between 20 and 31 are expected to be arraigned tomorrow following a theft from a store at Tal-Handaq Industrial estate. Some €13,000 worth of goods were stolen from the store, the...
View ArticleGovernment refuses request for photos to be taken during Debono's speech
A request by The Times to take photos and footage of the first part of much anticipated speech by Franco Debono in Parliament this evening has been refused by the government. In its request, The Times...
View ArticleMass exodus from Parliament as Debono concludes speech
The debate on the no confidence motion in the government, moved by the Opposition is now in its third day. A vote on the motion is being taken tomorrow at noon. A request by The Times to photograph...
View ArticleFranco Debono spoke with sincerity, the opposition has a problem - Edwin...
Nationalist MP Edwin Vassallo said tonight that Franco Debono had spoken with sincerity in parliament during the no confidence debate. But now that everyone's curiosity was satisfied, it was the...
View ArticleMY Health online medical information system launched
MY Health a new government service which provides online access to medical records for patients and doctors was inaugurated today by Health Minister Joseph Cassar. He explained that through this...
View ArticleFranco Debono keeps the country guessing
Franco Debono tonight kept the country guessing on how he will vote tomorrow, but he reiterated in a speech in parliament his criticism of the government for failing to carry out institutional reform...
View ArticleFranco Debono abstains, no confidence motion defeated with casting vote
Franco Debono abstained in the confidence vote in the government today, but the Opposition's no confidence motion was defeated with the Speaker's Casting vote after a tie of 34 votes in favour and 34...
View ArticleCheers, jeers as MPs leave the House
Applause and boos filled St George’s Square in Valletta as hundreds of Nationalist and Labour supporters greeted their MPs when they left parliament this afternoon. The motion was defeated with the...
View ArticleUpdated: Widespread power cut
Several localities around the harbour area, including Valletta, were without power today after a contractor hit a power cable near Hexagon House. Power was lost at 11.55 a.m. - hitting a TVM live...
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