Malta
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Measure 100 times and cut once.
— Maltese proverb
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Medicine home delivery extended to all localities
Patients eligible for the pharmacy of your choice scheme will as of next week have their medicine delivered right to their door as the government extends a pilot project to all localities. Health Minister Chris Fearne confirmed to this newspaper that the pilot project which had been rolled out to eight ...
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Watch: It's not an election on proposals, it's an election on principles - Busuttil
Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil today said that the coming election is not one based on the proposals made, but on principles.Addressing the first PN mass meeting in Balzan, Dr Busuttil said that while proposals are important, what is even more important in the coming election is a choice between ...
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Watch: Your children are my children, PM Muscat tells crowd in Zabbar
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that the best weapon against hatred and stereotyping is love. "Your children are my children," Dr Muscat said in a passionate speech in Zabbr at the first Labour Party mass meeting in Zabbar.He kicked off his speech by reminding the public that a week has ...
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Medical visas: Libyan whistleblower sues Neville Gafa over €36,675 in unreturned money
The Libyan whistleblower in the medical visas scandal that hit the headlines last summer has instituted court proceedings against former health ministry employee Neville Gafa. The court case has been lodged in an attempt to recoup €36,675 that the whistleblower claims Mr Gafa owes him for fees paid for visas ...
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Women's organisations against regularisation of prostitution
While noting that prostitution in not illegal in Malta, the Malta Confederation of Women's Organisations (MCWO) is against the regularisation of prostitution in Malta as a normal and legitimate business as this will increase the trafficking of women. The idea was launched by the Prime Minister in one of the events ...
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Prime Minister attacks PN, PD coalition in response to Marlene Farrugia’s debate challenge
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat responded to the challenge issued by PD Leader Marlene Farrugia for a debate, by taking a shot at the PN-PD coalition.Dr Farrugia had issued the challenge after the Prime Minister revealed that he would be contesting on her district. PN Leader Simon Busuttil welcomed the idea ...
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Simon Busuttil appeals to Attorney General to produce other report on Schembri, Tonna immediately
The fact that the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) report was published on the 17th of May but Police Commissioner Michael Cassar resigned in April, shows that there must have been another report, said Leader of the Opposition Simon Busuttil, appealing to the Attorney General Peter Grech to produce this ...
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iSurvey: Just over half rate government’s performance favourably, PN gains four points
The embattled Labour Party continues to enjoy approval ratings by the majority of respondents according to this seventh edition of the iSurvey, just weeks before Malta and Gozo head to the voting stations and make their choice.Despite daily developments on allegations that the Prime Minister and his wife are involved ...
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iSurvey: PM most trusted leader by 9.6 points, Busuttil jumps 10 points in six months
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat remains the nation’s most trust leader by a staggering 9.6 percentage points, despite Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil’s trust rating climbing 10 percentage points in just six months.The Malta Independent’s latest edition of the iSurvey shows that despite the very serious allegations surrounding Dr Muscat and the ...
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Pilatus Bank did not give FIAU report to inquiring magistrate
Pilatus Bank, which stands at the centre of the Egrant revelations and the allegations of kickbacks received by the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Keith Schembri from the sale of citizenships by Brian Tonna of Nexia BT, refrained from submitting a damning Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit report which outlined the ...
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iSurvey: PL holds 7 per cent lead over PN/PD coalition
Should an election be held today, the Labour Party will win with a margin of 53.1 per cent while the PN/PD coalition will receive 46 per cent of the vote, meaning that a difference of 7.1 per cent lies between the two political parties. The data comes from the latest ...
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Updated: Labour Party accuses PN of trying to bypass party financing law yet again
Minister for Justice Owen Bonnici said that the government has carried out vast consultation with every political party in Malta to introduce the law on party financing. He said that during the discussion with the PN, the Opposition was in favour and wanted even more transparency."But only months after the ...
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Award winning ICIJ journalist releases more documents on secret companies in Panama
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Matthew Caruana Galizia has published more documents in relation to the secret Panama papers.The ICIJ journalist, posting on Facebook fact after another, explains how Keith Schembri's friend and Times of Malta ex-managing director, Adrian Hillman, laundered over €600,000 after the Labour Party was elected. This ...
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Two grandmothers held with cocaine at Lagos Airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have foiled attempts by two grandmothers to unlawfully export narcotic drugs to New York, United States and Medina, Saudi Arabia. The suspects allegedly ingested 108 wraps of substances that tested positive for heroin and cocaine during outward screening of passengers at ...
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‘I have no power to prosecute', AG says, amid passport kickbacks claim
Attorney General Peter Grech yesterday defended himself from accusations that he had not taken any action despite having been in possession of ‘evidence’ of alleged kickbacks by the Prime Minister’s chief of staff for over a year. When contacted, Dr Grech told Times of Malta that he did not have the ...
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Economic forecasts prudent – MFAC
The Malta Fiscal Advisory Council (MFAC) has described the government’s economic forecasts as “prudent”, saying that the outcome could, if anything, be more positive than anticipated. The MFAC was commenting in its assessment of the macroeconomic forecasts for the Maltese economy prepared by the Ministry for Finance as part of the ...
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Fitch Ratings praise Malta’s budget surplus - government
Fitch Ratings has praised the budget surplus reached by Malta in 2016, which “continues the fiscal improvement seen in recent years, which has been driven by robust economic growth”, a government statement said today.Fitch said the government measures will enable Malta to reach a positive fiscal adjustment in 2017-18.Fitch referred ...
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Analysis: Election Roundup – Day 4 – The question is: Where is Konrad Mizzi?
We approach the first weekend of the election campaign and one question that has arisen in these opening stages is the conspicuous absence of Konrad Mizzi.Before the 2013 election, he was Labour’s face. He appeared in every news conference to explain what a Labour government would be doing in the ...
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What you need to think about when getting rid of your e-waste
If it is time to replace a refrigerator or a mobile phone, or anything electronic for that matter, you can either ask the seller to remove it (if a take-back system is offered), or you could ask your local council to dispose of it. It is then transported to an ...
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Watch: PM on Konrad Mizzi’s absence – ‘everyone will get their chance’
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, asked about Konrad Mizzi’s absence from the campaign so far, said that everyone will get their chance.Addressing a press conference in Marsa, The Malta Independent asked whether Minister Konrad Mizzi has been kept out of the public eye because the electorate sees him as the Panama ...
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INDEPTH: Egrant revelations - Whistle-blower summoned before magistrate again
The whistle-blower who revealed the existence of documents that allegedly show that Egrant Inc is a Panamanian secret company owned by the Prime Minister’s wife Mrs Michelle Muscat was yesterday summoned by magistrate Aaron Bugeja to give more details on the case revolving around Pilatus Bank where she worked. The ...