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Tue,01 Feb 2022 10:03:24 +0100 Cassola requests NAO investigation into Malta Film Awards spend
Cassola questions whether awards night spending went ove declared budget of €400,000
Tue,01 Feb 2022 09:58:26 +0100 Pandemic supply shocks spill into the drug market, says Security Service
COVID-19 lockdown saw imported drug supplies stopping completely, with drug seizures from entertainment events stopping entirely
Tue,01 Feb 2022 08:57:20 +0100 100 years of ‘Maltese’ film? ‘The island was a backdrop for British propaganda...’
Malta Film Commission’s extravagant 100-year celebration of island’s movie business keeps exposing the hidden realities of underpaid industry workers and shunned indigenous film
Tue,01 Feb 2022 08:05:45 +0100 Ahmed Diriye hired by subcontractors before fatal work accident
Ahmed Diriye was a worker who suffered a fatal workplace accident; he was hired through layered sub-contracting for solar panel works at a Marsa warehouse
Tue,01 Feb 2022 08:05:28 +0100 Malta hosts Small States games in 2023 in hope for medals glory
2023 Games of the Small States of Europe officially launched
Tue,01 Feb 2022 06:30:00 +0100 Whose side is Robert Abela on, anyway?
On the contrary: for the past 18 years, the PN has been consistently asking for our vote… simply because ‘it exists’ (and, of course, because ‘it isn’t Labour’
Tue,01 Feb 2022 06:30:00 +0100 Robert’s surreal administration
Meanwhile expect different messages from the Labour Party – a message to appease the ‘Muscat can do no wrong’ supporters and a message to appease those in the Labour Party that want their party to turn a new page
Mon,31 Jan 2022 20:01:44 +0100 Abela firm pocketed another €123,000 in PA direct orders on top of €17,000 retainer, Jason Azzopardi claims
Azzopardi suggests that Abela’s law firm earned more from other government entities, including ARMS and Air Malta
Mon,31 Jan 2022 19:29:30 +0100 Parliament shoots down PN motion to repeal ‘right to be forgotten’ court rules
A vote by division next Wednesday is the PN’s only hope to have the legal notice repealed for good
Mon,31 Jan 2022 15:46:21 +0100 Disowned PL mayor turned Nationalist candidate says Labour lost its social roots
'This isn't the Labour Party I knew': Charles Azzopardi criticises the Labour Party over €17,000-per-month contract to PM's law firm
Mon,31 Jan 2022 15:02:39 +0100 Cannabis traffickers' sentences reduced after appeals court notes assistance to police
Two men who had been jailed in 2012 for trafficking over half a kilogram of cannabis have had their sentences reduced on appeal
Mon,31 Jan 2022 14:25:36 +0100 Cocaine trafficker jailed for 13 years, fined €30,000 after jury finds him guilty
A cocaine trafficker has been jailed for 13 years and fined €30,000 after being convicted by a jury, over 12 years after his initial arrest
Mon,31 Jan 2022 13:50:58 +0100 Miriam Pace neighbours in call for damages from developers, contractors and architects
Owners of three properties near the construction site start court proceedings of their own against the developers
Mon,31 Jan 2022 12:36:21 +0100 Sant calls Brussels plan to target companies with non-EU subsidies ‘premature’
EU wants to limit companies subsidised by non-EU states from tendering for contracts, but Labour MEP Alfred Sant thinks plan could backfire
Mon,31 Jan 2022 12:34:28 +0100 COVID-19: Three die as 169 new cases are registered
31 January COVID-19 update | 169 new cases • 2,972 active cases • 100 patients in hospital, four in ITU • vaccine booster doses 329,806 • Total deaths 550
Mon,31 Jan 2022 12:06:54 +0100 Magħtab incinerator tender to be re-issued after shortlisted companies fail to submit final bid
Wasteserv hives off Magħtab incinerator excavation works into separate tender to mitigate loss of time after three international companies fail to submit final bid for project
Mon,31 Jan 2022 11:54:26 +0100 Higher costs, COVID recovery and election uncertainty are biggest challenges for SMEs
Malta Chamber for SMEs survey finds that 44% of businesses expect 2022 to be better than 2021 while 39% expect situation to remain the same • Chamber proposes removal of excise tax on some consumer products and reduction of VAT rate
Mon,31 Jan 2022 11:24:06 +0100 Nasdaq gets some respite from mega-cap earnings | Calamatta Cuschieri
Markets summary
Mon,31 Jan 2022 07:24:00 +0100 March, April, May, June? Here’s how the electoral math plays out
When will the election be held? Kurt Sansone gives a run-through of possibilities on the possible dates Labour leader Robert Abela might choose for the 2022 general election
Mon,31 Jan 2022 06:31:00 +0100 A victory for women’s autonomy
Isabel Stabile | When deciding to deny patients access to medicines to which they have a right, pharmacists should state the scientific rationale on which they are basing this decision