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Cardinal watching
Nuns looking on as cardinals arrive for a meeting at the Synod Hall in the Vatican yesterday. Preparations for electing Roman Catholicism’s new leader began in earnest yesterday. The idea is to have...
View ArticleBlake to run at Doha meet
Jamaica’s 100 metres world champion Yohan Blake is the first high-profile athlete to sign up for the opening Diamond League event in Doha, organisers said yesterday. The meeting on May 10 in Qatar is...
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Siġġiewi in play-offs
BUPA Luxol 61 Siġġiewi 75 (17-14, 20-23, 16-17, 8-21) In this direct clash for the last available place in the play-offs, Luxol lost their plot in the last quarter to hand Siġġiewi victory. Again,...
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HSBC reports 6% fall in profits
Bank to increase dividend despite disappointing dip in annual results HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, yesterday pledged to increase its dividend despite a disappointing drop in annual profits as...
View ArticleHow the free press is muzzled
It’s funny how certain people in the political scene decide something is important only when it personally affects them. Criminal libel has been on the statute books in Malta for years, yet it was...
View ArticleHonesty at Air Malta
This week, while in England, I received a call from Air Malta concerning my impending return flight back home. “Flight overbooked,” I imagined. Or worse, “Flight cancelled...” But that was not the...
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Jeweller named in court
The Valletta jeweller who stands charged with accepting stolen precious items amounting to some €330,000 was yesterday named as George Tabone. The publication of his name had previously been...
View ArticleMy last anti-Labour salvo
My conclusion is totally and absolutely anti-Labour, without any reservations whatsoever. I have really and sincerely tried to grasp Labour over the many weeks of a very tiring campaign. I am...
View ArticleJohn Joseph
Marthese and Francis Flynn write... Last Tuesday we received the very sad news that our dear friend John Joseph had passed away early the previous Sunday morning. For many years John ran one of the...
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Voyeur vicar walks free from court
A Church of England vicar has walked free from court after admitting using secret cameras to spy on and film intimate pictures of three girls and a woman. Reverend Richard Lee, 49, was handed an...
View ArticleReal Madrid and Dortmund go through in Champions League
Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund became the first teams through to the Champions League quarter-finals with contrasting wins over Manchester United and Shakhtar Donetsk. Real came from behind to win...
View ArticleUS envoy walks out of nuclear meeting
The US ambassador to the United Nations nuclear watchdog walked out of an agency meeting yesterday in protest when Iran’s representative accused Washington’s ally Israel of “genocide”, diplomats said....
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‘This is no time to risk’
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech is interviewed by Anthony Manduca and says Malta needs a government which can ensure job creation. The PN is projecting economic growth of between 2.3 and 3.6 per cent...
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Prostitute tells court of men covered in blood
A prostitute heard a male colleague screaming in pain but left with a client before returning to find his murderers covered in blood, a court heard yesterday. Karen Rapinett said in court that Faical...
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S. Korea warns North
South Korea’s military said it will strike back at North Korea and target its top leadership if Pyongyang launches a threatened attack in response to what it says are “hostile” drills between US and...
View ArticleMarginal increase in unemployment linked to election – Tonio Fenech
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech has linked the country’s marginal rise in unemployment over the last 11 months to uncertainty caused by next Saturday’s election. Interviewed by The Times Business, Mr...
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‘Flirting’ sparked off Rabat PL club fight
The Rabat Labour Party club fight that left one man in intensive care started when the girlfriend of another began flirting with a patron of the bar, a court heard yesterday. Police Inspector Sarah...
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Conclave could be delayed, Vatican muzzles cardinals
Vatican officials yesterday told cardinals gathered for the election of the next Pope to stop speaking to the media, as further indications emerged that a conclave would not start early next week as...
View ArticleGovernment insists it has gas pipe funds
Part of the €1.1 billion package that Malta secured from the EU includes €63 million that will be allocated to the gas pipeline project, the Office of the Prime Minister insisted yesterday. Reacting...
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PL lacks jobs plan – Fenech
Labour has no plan to create jobs and will therefore cause unemployment, according to Finance Minister Tonio Fenech. Addressing a Nationalist Party press conference yesterday he listed the schemes and...
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