• Malta

    GO share price climbs to 8-month high

    The MSE Share Index erased some of yesterday’s decline as it rebounded by 0.10% to 4,720.566 points. Trading activity was spread across nine equities: three moved higher, another three registered declines whilst BOV, IHI and MIDI closed flat. Volumes improved as nearly €0.43 million worth of shares changed hands – ...

  • Malta

    Engineers dismantled aircraft's generators because their company was owed money

    An aircraft maintenance company official was conditionally discharged by a magistrate's court today after he was convicted of having unlawfully dismantled an aircraft's generators to force payment of funds owed to his company.  Alexander Ferdinand Vit, a German, allegedly took the generators worth €7272.58 from a Libyan Air Ambulance belonging to ...

  • Spagna

    Consultant to sue Caruana Galizia over brothel claims

    Joseph Gerada, a lawyer who accompanied Economy Minister Chris Cardona on an official visit to Germany, is to sue blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia after she reported that he had accompanied the minister in a brothel. The minister also said he would sue yesterday, while denying the claims. Ms Caruana Galizia has ...

  • Malta

    New European Parliament president visiting Malta tomorrow

    The new president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, will visit Malta tomorrow, a day before the EU heads of government meeting. Mr Tajani will meet Foreign Minister George Vella shortly after his arrival in the afternoon, and then meet Opposition leader Simon Busuttil. He will visit Europe House - the offices ...

  • Regno Unito

    David and Victoria Beckham pay £22,000 in tax, per day

    David and Victoria Beckham pay the taxman the equivalent of nearly £22,000 a day after their global business empire notched up more than £47 million in sales. The firm owned by the ex-England captain and his fashion designer and former Spice Girl wife made pre-tax profits of £39.5 million on sales ...

  • Malta

    Law Commission has been inactive for more than year

    A commission whose remit is to revise and consolidate the laws of Malta has not met for more than a year, as the Justice Ministry has yet to replace two members who have dropped out. Chaired by former MP Franco Debono, the Law Commission was inactive for a number of years ...

  • Malta

    No evidence of food poisoning in hospitals – caterers

    The caterer for the state hospitals which saw a viral outbreak last month conducted independent tests which gave them a clean bill of health, the company said yesterday. Malta Healthcare Caterers said a certified foreign laboratory had been contracted to carry out tests on the food samples, otherwise known as ghost ...

  • Malta

    Development NGOs prepare to educate for change

    Local youths will be encouraged to be global citizens and engage with development issues as part of a newly-launched project by Malta's development NGO platform SKOP.  The 'E4C: Educating for Change' project capitalises on Malta's EU Council presidency to raise awareness about global poverty reduction and the United Nations' Sustainable Development ...

  • Panama Malta

    Police Commissioner a puppet who serves Muscat’s government instead of the people – Simon Busuttil

    "The police are meant to serve the public, but who do they protect? The people or the government of Joseph Muscat," Leader of the Opposition Simon Busutill told parliament during his intervention on the proposed legislation which will reform the Police Force. Dr Busuttil went on to say that ...

  • Malta

    Environment Minister found not guilty of libel from 2004 article

    An appeals court has confirmed that a newspaper article penned by current Environment Minister Jose Herrera in 2004 was not defamatory.The article was published on 15 June 2004 on The Times of Malta, and stated that former vice chairman of the Maritime Authority and chairman of the Capital Projects Committee ...