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Highchairs warning
The Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority said today that Chicco Polly Highchair Products have been found to pose a risk of laceration to young children due to protruding parts on the rear...
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PL welcomes monument's restoration
The Labour party has welcomed the restoration of the Manwel Dimech monument by the government. In a statement, deputy leader for party affairs Toni Abela said this was only happening after the Labour...
View ArticleGainfully occupied, unemployment, up
In the twelve months to March, both the full-time gainfully occupied populationand the registered unemployed increased, the NSO said today. Quoting data provided by the Employment and Training...
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Diving Association plans to scuttle tugboat off Exiles
The Professional Diving Schools Association (PDSA) has proposed the scuttling of a tugboat off Exiles beach to serve as a diving attraction. The preferred scuttling location is in 22 metres of water...
View ArticleHalf a kilo of cocaine seized
A Colombian man has been arrested after half a kilo of cocaine was found hidden in 52 capsules in his underpants. The man was arrested at the airport yesterday afternoon after flying in from...
View ArticleBOV and GO in opposite directions
The only two active equities during this morning's session of the Stock Exchange were Bank of Valletta plc and GO plc which traded in opposite directions. BOV's share price jumped 1.9% higher to...
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Jailed for 40 days
Paul Lughermo, 57 of Valletta, was today jailed for 40 days and fined €100 after being convicted of performing lewd acts and offending public morals on July 24 at Fekruna, St Paul's Bay. The court was...
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Interpol issues arrest warrant for Sea Shepherd chief
Interpol has issued an international notice for the arrest of fugitive eco-warrior Paul Watson, famed for his high-seas clashes with Japanese whalers, after he skipped bail in Germany. Watson's Sea...
View ArticleEgypt battles Sinai militants
Egypt's army declared tentative victory in a crackdown on Islamist militants in Sinai Wednesday, hours after state television reported the military killed 20 militants in unprecedented air strikes....
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AFM seizes 2 million suspected contraband cigarettes
Two million cigarettes valued at more than €400,000 were seized from a sailing yacht by the Armed Forces of Malta this morning, pending further investigations on suspected contraband. The army said in...
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MUMN calls for new 500-bed hospital
The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses has called for the building of a new 500-bed hospital to solve the overcrowding problem at Mater Dei. In election proposals to the political parties, unveiled...
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Updated - AFM in two medical evacuations
An AFM search and rescue launch this morning evacuated an Italian man who was stung by a fish and fell unconscious while fishing off a yacht off Malta. To compound problems, the yacht suffered engined...
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Deep brain stimulation surgery: More 'miracles' at Mater Dei
Fifteen patients will have received deep brain stimulation surgery by the end of this year, Health Minister Joe Cassar said this morning. Only one of these patients developed an infection, meaning the...
View ArticleFighting Fit?
The year is 1984 and the country used to be called the Jewel of the Mediterranean, Omphalos of the world. Some even thought it was some kind of mystical Resurgent Dome over the Atlantis Caldera. This...
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Man 'challenged police to a fight'
Vincent Spiteri, 28 of Vittoriosa, today pleaded not guilty in court to having seriously injured Francesco Caruana in a fight late yesterday. He also denied violently resisting two policemen,...
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Malian murder case interrupted
The court case against soldiers who stand accused of killing Malian migrant Abdalla Mohammed was interrupted today after defence counsel Joe Giglio protested that new details should not be given at...
View ArticleGWU deems associations' criticism 'hypocritical'
The GWU this afternoon said reactions by employers' associations to some of its election proposals to the political parties was hypocritical. The union noted that the Malta Employers' Association and...
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Updated: PM urged to apologise to the unemployed
(Adds PN's reply) The shadow minister for employment, Anġlu Farrugia, said today that the prime minister should apologise to the unemployed for claiming that the government had created 20,000 jobs...
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Updated: Autopsy finds beating, taxi, led to Paceville death
An autopsy on Mario Galea, 47, who was killed in Paceville last Friday morning, has concluded that both a beating he suffered and the fact that he was run over by a taxi had contributed to his death....
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Father ordered to send son, 5, to mother in Poland
A court had ordered a Maltese man to return his five-year-old son to his mother in Poland, confirming the sentence of a lower court. The court found that Michael Caruana had provided no evidence to...
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