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Mon,21 Jun 2021 11:00:20 +0200
SLAPPs: draft report calls for 'effective penalties against abusive actions' – Metsola
A cross-party draft European Parliament report drawn up by Maltese MEP and EP First Vice-President Roberta Metsola and S&D MEP Tiemo Wölken provides mechanisms allowing courts to summarily dismiss, and to provide effective penalties against...

Mon,21 Jun 2021 10:53:31 +0200
[WATCH] Finance Minister says Malta will continue to push for a positive FATF verdict
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana says coming 48 hours crucial for Malta to convince stakeholders it does not deserve FATF grey-listing 

Mon,21 Jun 2021 10:19:54 +0200
Fire breaks out at hotel in Qawra
A fire broke out at a hotel in Qawra on Monday morning. No one was injured

Mon,21 Jun 2021 09:24:24 +0200
Revenge of JPO: former MP takes no prisoners in memoirs
A book that goes well with the suntan lotion: some skin is going to get scorched in Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s fiery memoirs

Mon,21 Jun 2021 09:19:44 +0200
PN drags feet on cannabis reform
Justice ministry’s legalisation Bill expected in coming weeks but PN position yet to be formulated

Mon,21 Jun 2021 09:18:23 +0200
Health ministry coy on embryo genetic testing
New in-vitro fertilisation services are being planned and the Health Ministry is in the process of 'actively drafting' changes to the law, MaltaToday is informed

Mon,21 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0200
When it comes to education, in the grand scheme of things, what’s another year?
In a year in which even adults have suffered mental health issues due to job uncertainty, anxiety over illness and even the loss of loved ones, why are we expecting children and teenagers to just pick up where they have left off in their schooling a...

Mon,21 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0200
The beam in your eye
On FATF: It will be nasty to have the Americans taking out the speck of Malta’s eye while we are powerless to remove the beam in theirs

Sun,20 Jun 2021 15:42:48 +0200
Motorcyclist injured in traffic accident at St Paul's Bay
A crash between a Mercedes car and Kawasaki motorbike has left a 72-year-old motorcyclist seriously injured

Sun,20 Jun 2021 15:25:01 +0200
Malta did 'everything it could' in Moneyval-FATF assessment, Finance Minister says
Government will be using the few days left before the final FATF verdict to convince stakeholders that Malta has worked hard in undertaking the relevant recommendations

Sun,20 Jun 2021 14:56:59 +0200
ERA urges responsibility after fireworks display causes major Gozo forest fire
The environment watchdog says that the site sustained considerable damage as a result of the fire

Sun,20 Jun 2021 12:50:48 +0200
Nine cars and eight shopfronts damaged in Mellieħa vandalism spree
A 25-year-old man has been arrested in relation to these acts

Sun,20 Jun 2021 12:40:52 +0200
COVID-19: One new case, active cases fall to 27
COVID-19 update for 20 June | One new cases • Three recoveries • 27 active cases • 1,839 Swab tests past 24 hours • Vaccine doses administered until Saturday 625,844

Sun,20 Jun 2021 12:12:51 +0200
'Pass or fail, the damage is done': Grech defends his letter to the FATF
'I did my part to try and avoid a greylisting,' the Opposition leader said during an interview 

Sun,20 Jun 2021 11:30:07 +0200
Robert Abela accuses Bernard Grech of wanting Malta FATF greylisting
Abela said he was disappointed not only with the content of Grech's letter to the FATF, but also of its strategic timing, with a final decision on Malta's greylisting expected next week

Sun,20 Jun 2021 10:30:00 +0200
Malta pushed for grey-list despite higher compliance
Malta could be facing an FATF grey-list despite obtaining healthier technical compliance ratings than other European countries 

Sun,20 Jun 2021 09:50:43 +0200
A cloudy forecast on FATF
Be it grey-listing or enhanced follow-up Malta is struggling in the wake of stronger governments whose voice at the FATF is a political tool that could make an example of the smallest EU member state. 

Sun,20 Jun 2021 07:40:43 +0200
JPO memoirs deliver take-down of old enemies, ‘assholes and traitors’
Former Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, whose divorce bill rocked the Gonzi administration, pens memoirs

Sun,20 Jun 2021 07:10:12 +0200
Bernard Grech wants Metsola, Giglio as deputy leaders but finds little room for manoeuvre
The move comes ahead of a PN General Council in July, but there is no election in such a party council, because the party statute mandates the term of the leadership positions till after each general election

Sun,20 Jun 2021 07:06:00 +0200
‘People want to party’: Venue owners and DJs say government must step up in lifting restrictions
Malta must take advantage of its high vaccination rate to reopen the clubbing scene as a flagging industry cries out for patrons to be allowed to return to party, club impresarios and DJs say



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