Malta Today
Tue,28 Jun 2022 09:14:01 +0200 Rebranding Muscat: redemption through football magic?
Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat could head Malta’s top-tier league football clubs industry association. Could he reinvigorate local football the same way he transformed Malta, or will the dark cloud of disgrace still overshadow the role he...
Tue,28 Jun 2022 08:11:14 +0200 [WATCH] Energy crisis: With war, EU needs fallback position on Green Deal
Labour MEPs Alfred Sant and Josianne Cutajar explore the different ways the war in Ukraine could affect Malta and the wider bloc
Tue,28 Jun 2022 08:08:00 +0200 Heritage watchdog green-lights six storeys on Sliema’s Britannia flats
Proposed five floors and a penthouse on Britannia Flats given blessing of the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage after its topmost two storeys were receded
Tue,28 Jun 2022 08:03:23 +0200 Xaghra caves threatened by illegal excavations
The Superintendence for Cultural Heritage has expressed “grave concern” on an application to regularize illegal excavations for a four-storey hotel on Xaghra’s Marsalforn road
Tue,28 Jun 2022 08:02:52 +0200 Andrea Prudente case: No country for pregnant women
Here is what Maltese MPs seem intent on telling us: ‘Sorry, but no. We will continue to needlessly endanger women’s lives, because…because we’re ‘Pro-Life’…”
Tue,28 Jun 2022 08:00:22 +0200 The PN’s recurring nightmare
By opting to be a confessional party – that historically it never was – the PN would be supported by a minority of voters and will never become the majority that it enjoyed only under Eddie Fenech Adami
Mon,27 Jun 2022 19:33:28 +0200 Rosianne Cutajar pushes back against restrictive abortion law: ‘No woman should risk losing her life’
Rosianne Cutajar is the only MP to speak against Malta’s restrictive abortion law in the wake of Andrea Prudente’s case
Mon,27 Jun 2022 18:41:49 +0200 Embryo genetic testing in IVF clears committee stage
Amendments to the IVF law proposed by the government have cleared the committee stage and are now one vote away from becoming law
Mon,27 Jun 2022 18:18:45 +0200 Traumatised woman secretly filmed having sex when still underage wins compensation
Four men ordered to pay woman €33,000 in damages after secretly filming her having sex when she was underage
Mon,27 Jun 2022 17:54:17 +0200 Malta election cost €8.5 million
Exercising the right to vote in the March general election cost €8.5 million, including €1.9 million to subsidise Air Malta flights for overseas voters
Mon,27 Jun 2022 17:44:32 +0200 18 ministers breached ethics with Labour Party media supplement
A supplement in the newspaper KullĦadd was filled with government-financed adverts promoting the work done by various ministers
Mon,27 Jun 2022 17:09:03 +0200 Justice Minister waiting for committee to revise guidelines demanding graduates declare mental health problems
A committee responsible for carrying out a 'fit and proper' test on prospective lawyers has been told by the Justice Minister to revise guidelines demanding graduates declare medical or psychological conditions before admission to the b...
Mon,27 Jun 2022 16:34:19 +0200 Four men jailed after committing violent thefts on elderly people
Four men have been collectively jailed 13 years after harming several elderly people in a grab and run theft spree in Pietà two years ago
Mon,27 Jun 2022 16:03:41 +0200 Valletta should not become another nightclub destination, MHRA says
The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association is disappointed that government did not consult stakeholders before enacting a legal notice placing Valletta alongside entertainment hotspots like Paceville and Buġibba
Mon,27 Jun 2022 15:43:56 +0200 IGM expects Attorney General to shoulder responsibility for bribery case bungle
The Institute of Maltese Journalists says Attorney General must shoulder responsibility 'mistake' that helped acquit two lawyers from charges they tried to bribe a journalist and hopes this was unintentional
Mon,27 Jun 2022 12:20:13 +0200 Lawyers cleared of attempted bribery of journalist after Attorney General bungle
Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers have been cleared of attempted bribery of a journalist after the Attorney General indicated the wrong article of law in the note of referral
Mon,27 Jun 2022 11:13:15 +0200 Maltese developer Joseph Portelli confirms interest in buying Montenegrin island
Joseph Portelli confirms his interest in purchasing an island in Montenegro that is currently owned by Russian group Metropol
Mon,27 Jun 2022 10:59:16 +0200 New permanent secretary appointed to finance ministry
Paul Zahra will be replacing Alfred Camilleri as permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Employment
Mon,27 Jun 2022 10:12:17 +0200 135 doctors sign judicial protest to strike down abortion ban
Doctors want to remove an article from the Criminal Code that subjects them to prison time for performing an abortion
Mon,27 Jun 2022 09:49:17 +0200 The increasing risk of recession
As price-to-earnings multiples fall and inflation continues to weigh on the economy, long-term earnings estimates may still be too high as the risk of a recession rises