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Malta
AFM rebuts claims aggrieved army personnel promised post-election promotion 'to secure vote'
Updated 1.05pm with AFM rebuttal The Armed Forces of Malta has rebutted claims that dozens of personnel were being promised promotions after the election. Promotions in the AFM are regulated by specific legislation whereby a soldier would need to specify the criteria laid down to be eligible for promotion, a statement said. The ...
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Malta
Property prices up 4.8% in Q1
Property prices rose by an average of 4.8 per cent in the first quarter of this year when compared to the corresponding quarter of last year, the National Statistics Office said today. The volume of transactions rose by 11.1 per cent. The NSO said that last year, 75.6 per cent of sold ...
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PM, Schembri ‘colluded’ with Henley in media threat plan, used unofficial email addresses
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, his right hand man Keith Schembri and Justice Minister Owen Bonnici colluded with Henley and Partners in the latter’s attempt to threaten the press and stop it from writing against the controversial passport-for-sale scheme, information published by Daphne Caruana Galizia purports to show.This was made public ...
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General Election – June, 2017: voting documents of hospital patients
The Electoral Commission appeals to relatives of voters recovering in Mater Dei, Karen Grech, Mount Carmel and Gozo General Hospitals (who were registered as patients up to 6.00 pm of Monday, 29th May), that if they are in possession of the patient’s voting document, they are to immediately consign the ...
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Only five of 17 visits to China by Konrad Mizzi made public
The revelations in the latest of reports complied by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU), which were leaked to The Malta Independent, show that former Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi travelled to China 17 times in the span of two years in the run up of the privatisation of Enemalta. However, ...
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USA Malta
The future of our children at stake - Therese Comodini Cachia
Next Saturday all of us need to make a decision. We have to decide on the state of the country we want to live in. We have three Magisterial inquiries going on at the moment and also another investigation from FIAU, regarding the LNG tanker. These inquiries undermine Malta’s reputation ...
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USA Malta
Watch: PM woos female voters; 'no big equality advancements under conservative governments'
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this evening urged women to vote for the Labour Party on Saturday, telling them that no great advances in equality were made under conservative governments. PN administrations, he said, had even dragged their feet on the most basis domestic violence laws. Dr Muscat spoke about how ...
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Watch: Simon Busuttil pledges to deliver results by first 100 days in office
Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil promised to deliver positive results for Gozo in the first 100 days of a Nationalist Party (PN) government.He was addressing a PN mass meeting in Rabat, Gozo.“I want to give you hope that after Saturday’s vote, we are ready to get to work from day one, ...
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Maltese trust in the justice and legal system waning according to Eurobarometer
Only 36% of Maltese trust in Justice and the legal system in Malta according to a special Eurobarometer, a 6% drop since last Autumn.49% of Maltese respondents do not trust the Maltese legal and justice system, while the rest of the respondents did not have an answer. On average, 52% ...
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The Malta Business Weekly Editorial: Protecting Malta’s economy
On Saturday, we are all called to vote in a general election that has assumed an even greater importance than that which a general election usually has.The election has been called four years into this legislature and a year early for reasons that have not been clarified by the Prime ...