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First Maltese to receive lung transplant in Italy is home
Sandra Abela, the first Maltese to benefit from a new free health service being provided by the Maltese Government – a lung transport –returned home yesterday after spending months at a Palermo...
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Oil firm said it demanded Farrugia for his expertise
French oil firm Total insisted on having rogue oil trader George Farrugia as its representative in 2010 on the basis of his expertise and good work, the company’s legal adviser said. “George Farrugia...
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Environment is being used as ‘political bait’ by parties
Political parties should be transparent about their plans for the environment, Din l-Art Ħelwa said yesterday, as it urged the next government to retain existing building boundaries. “Many wondrous...
View ArticleMuscat admits Safi drug case mistake
Labour leader Joseph Muscat has admitted making a “mistake” when he failed to report a case of drugs at the party’s Safi club in 2009, but he insists he never lied to reporters. Dr Muscat spoke to The...
View ArticleHead of Security suspends himself
The head of the Security Service, Godfrey Scicluna, has suspended himself after a pedestrian initiated legal proceedings against him in the wake of a traffic accident. The Department of Information...
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Mallia: put PBO in prison
Labour candidate Manuel Mallia yesterday said he would be seeking a sentence of imprisonment for Nationalist Party general secretary after instructing police to take criminal action against Paul Borg...
View ArticleArriva denies charging for lost money
Arriva has denied charging customers to claim back cash they have lost in faulty ticketing machines. The Times’ On the Dot column last Monday reported that a reader was told by Arriva Customer Care he...
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The unconventional nun
MaryAnne Francalanza knew she would not fit in at a closed convent, and yet she wanted to live the Ignatian spirituality “full-time”. So she logged on one of the first search engines at the University...
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Architects forget to include bulbs in Żebbuġ road tender
Żebbuġ’s main thoroughfare has been left in the dark since November after the architect forgot to make provisions for the procurement of bulbs in the tender, The Sunday Times has learnt. The €1.2...
View ArticleMan accused of Sliema hold-up
Daniel Callus 21 of Ħamrun has been remanded in custody after having been accused in court today of stealing several items from a Sliema shop and injuring the shopkeeper during a hold-up. The incident...
View ArticleFuneral disgrace
On January 3, my wife and I attended a funeral and interment at Addolorata Cemetery. What we witnessed was disrespectful and a disgrace on Malta. My friend, the deceased, was married to an English...
View ArticleWhen we make faces
It’s history now. On February 6, 2013, Nationalist Party deputy leader Simon Busuttil said in a televised political debate that Labour Party candidate Deborah Schembri “has the face of a Nationalist”....
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Adam Ant’s comeback
Flamboyant and wild, Adam Ant stormed the British pop scene in the 1980s dressed as a pirate and highwayman, but crashed out of the music world in 1995, exhausted and battling mental illness. The...
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Italian firms innovate to fight recession
Bioplastics group Mossi & Ghisolfi has hired 50 people a year for the last five years – not bad when Italy’s unemployment has risen steadily to a 13-year high above 11 per cent. Now a world leader...
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More transparency in football
Five years ago, the Malta Football Association’s top echelons had ignored a letter alleging the association misappropriated funds from the European football association. Norman Darmanin Demajo had...
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Bullying victims scarred for life
Children who were bullied and those who were bullies themselves are both at higher risk for depression, anxiety and panic disorder years later, according to a US study. Researchers had known that...
View ArticleClear need for change
The Prime Minister often complains that the Labour Party is urging us to change direction. “Why should we change,” he asks, “and in which direction do they want us to change?” The thing is that, as a...
View ArticleItaly’s threat to Malta
We’re not the only ones living through an election whirlwind. Italy went to the polls yesterday and will continue voting today. The electoral campaign over there was relatively muted, important as it...
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