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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Spagna Panama
Updated: ‘Cardona has turned the whole country into a brothel’ – Beppe Fenech Adami
PN Deputy Leader Beppe Fenech Adami today said that Economy Minister Chris Cardona has turned the whole country into a brothel.He was replying to questions following the publication of a blog on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s website, which said that Dr Cardona was in a brothel in Germany last night. Dr ...
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Malta
Man takes law into own hands, orders removal of plane engine generators over financial dispute
A German man has been found guilty of taking the law into his own hands after he ordered his employees to remove two air craft generators from a Libyan Air Ambulance due to a sum of money owed to the company he works for, M.C.M. Maintenance Centre Malta Limited.The sum ...
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Spagna
Joe Gerada joins Chris Cardona in instituting libel case against Daphne Caruana Galizia
Joe Gerada, consultant to Minister Chris Cardona, will also be instituting libel proceedings against blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia on allegations that he went to a brothel in Germany while on official duty with the minister.Dr Cardona said on Tuesday that he will be taking the blogger to court too after ...