Malta News
Yellow Pages acquire web development company
Yellow Pages (Malta) Ltd has acquired a leading website development company in a bid to continue in its upward growth trend. Zheta Ltd, now renamed
115 struck off employment register in December
A total of 115 persons were struck off the the employment register in December. Education and Employment Minister Dolores Cristina said that included 11 who were ...
Air France to file complaint against Ryanair
Air France is to file a complaint with the European Commmission against Ryanair for allegedly receiving hundreds of millions of euros in illegal subsidies, Le ...
Greece crippled by anti-austerity general strike
Greece ground to a halt today in the second general strike in two weeks against austerity measures crippling public transport and closing schools, hospitals and ...
Power station emissions just below EU ceiling
Emissions of C02 from the two power stations were below the maximum level allowed by the EU in 2008, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said in ...
Press digest
The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press: The Times says the Commission for the Administration of Justice has not taken any ...
City Gate shops have to be vacated within two weeks
Shops at City Gate and Freedom Square, in Valletta must be vacated by March 27, which means tenants have two weeks within which to reach ...
Foreign Minister holding visa talks in Libya
Foreign Minister Tonio Borg is in Tripoli for talks with senior Libyan officials on the current controversy over the withholding of visas issued by Schengen ...
Jail term converted to probation for recovering drug addict
An appeals court today reduced an 18-month jail term to a three-year probation period after it heard that the accused, Renald Barbara, was managing to ...
Parliament apologises to Maltese child migrants
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and Opposition leader Joseph Muscat this evening apologised to 315 Maltese child migrants for the suffering many of them endured after ...
'Il-Kampanjol' passes away
Popular Maltese singer Toni Gauci, better known as Il-Kampanjol, passed away today. The Labour Party in a statement saluted his memory and said he had been ...
Justice Commission says it has taken no decisions on Magistrate Herrera
The Commission for the Administration of Justice in a short statement this evening said it has taken no decisions to date in any proceedings before ...
EU endorses bluefin tuna ban - Malta only dissenter
The European Commission today took a final decision to endorse a proposal for a ban on the international trade of tuna, with Malta being the ...
Police invited to investigate licences corruption claims
Transport Malta said today that it had asked the police to investigate corruption claims made by Labour MP Joe Mizzi in Parliament. Mr Mizzi alleged yesterday ...
GRTU does not see need for Consumer Protection Agency
The GRTU does not understand why the government is planning to set up a Consumer Protection Agency, GRTU President Paul Abela said today. "We cannot see ...
Residents' association launches campaign against telephony base stations
A residents' association has launched a national campaign to raise awareness about the possible harmful effects of electrogagnetic radiation from base stations used for mobile ...
Court orders therapy in child porn case
A man who admitted possession of child porn material including footage and photographs, was today condemned to one year in jail suspended for three years ...
Case against Caruana Galizia closed
Magistrate Anthony Vella this afternoon declared criminal proceedings null in a case instituted by the police against columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia after a complaint by ...
Parliamentary Secretary's driver accused of vandalising official car
The driver of Parliamentary Secretary Mario Galea, Clive Bianco, 28 of Zejtun, was accused in court today of having vandalised Mr Galea's official car ...
Government launches process for comprehensive environmental policy
The government has launched an 18-month process that will lead to the publication of a national environmental policy. "The country has various sectoral policies and EU ...