Malta Today
Wed,22 Dec 2021 10:35:48 +0100 Public health doctors appeal for stricter COVID-19 measures in face of rising cases
The Malta Association of Public Health Medicine says the health care system is suffering the consequences of a surge in COVID-19 cases and warns the situation is only expected to get worse
Wed,22 Dec 2021 10:35:24 +0100 Family-friendly Christmas events perfect for children this year
A selection of family-friendly events to do together as a family to get everyone in a festive mood
Wed,22 Dec 2021 10:28:55 +0100 My essentials: Joseph Zammit’s cultural picks
No 11 | Joseph Zammit, 32, Actor, singer and educator
Wed,22 Dec 2021 08:51:14 +0100 COVID surge is pushing Mater Dei Hospital to 'breaking point', nurses' union warns
The nurses' union claims the hospital is under strain from rising COVID-19 cases, calls for non-urgent surgeries to be postponed and tough restrictions to be introduced in the community
Wed,22 Dec 2021 08:21:54 +0100 PN disassociates itself from L-Istrina boycott calls
Nationalist supporters in closed Facebook groups and phone-in programmes have been calling for a boycott of the President’s fundraiser L-Istrina after George Vella signed the cannabis Bill into law
Wed,22 Dec 2021 08:21:27 +0100 Civil servants silent on role in Caruana-Bogdanovic scandal
Education Permanent Secretary Frank Fabri ignores questions after damning ethics report
Wed,22 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0100 The Christmas gamer drought: games everywhere but no console to play them on
More than a year after Sony and Microsoft launched the latest consoles, there are practically no PS5 or Xbox consoles to be found ... anywhere in the world
Wed,22 Dec 2021 07:42:43 +0100 Vaccination worked in 2020; let’s do our bit to make it work again
Despite the fact that well over 200 cases have been reported in the space of just 24 hours this week: the corresponding statistic for COVID-related hospitalisations – and, much more pertinently, cases requiring emergency treatment, or resultin...
Tue,21 Dec 2021 16:16:29 +0100 Court hears details of €20 million Libyan money-moving operation using hawala money transfer
A court hears how four Libyan men accused of tax evasion and laundering have been coming and going from Malta with large amounts of cash linked with the purchases of luxury cars, expensive jewellery and designer clothes
Tue,21 Dec 2021 16:01:38 +0100 PN believes silent majority will ditch Labour on election day
'The public is capable of reaching their conclusions,' a candidate said on Tuesday
Tue,21 Dec 2021 15:45:12 +0100 Judge hands farmers victory in landmark ruling on dissolution of rural leases
Judge Lawrence Mintoff rules against a landowner’s claim that the law governing rural leases, which heavily protects agricultural activity, breached her human rights
Tue,21 Dec 2021 14:45:29 +0100 Updated | Worker dies in cherry picker accident
The worker became trapped between the ceiling and the cherry picker platform at the Ħas-Saptan fuel storage facility
Tue,21 Dec 2021 14:03:28 +0100 Court clears man of 2015 Cospicua hold up
The man has been declared not guilty of holding up the BestPlay outlet at gunpoint and stealing between €5,000 and €6,000
Tue,21 Dec 2021 13:38:32 +0100 Man charged with attacking bar owner with metal pipe denied bail
A court has denied bail to a man accused of attacking a bar owner with a metal pipe in Marsa
Tue,21 Dec 2021 13:21:35 +0100 Man pleads guilty to spitting in police sergeant's face
A man from Birkirkara has been handed a suspended sentence and a €2,000 fine after he admitted to spitting in a police officer’s face at the local police station
Tue,21 Dec 2021 12:35:03 +0100 COVID-19 surge sees 386 new cases but hospitalisations remain stable
21 December COVID-19 update | 386 new cases • 2,505 active cases • 40 patients in hospital, five in ITU • vaccine booster doses 175,395 • Total deaths 471
Tue,21 Dec 2021 12:17:07 +0100 Road safety campaign 'paused' after equality commission slams videos for racial and gender stereotypes
A road safety video campaign has been paused after the National Commission for Promotion of Equality asked MAPFRE Middlesea and Malta Public Transport to withdraw videos depicting racial and gender stereotypes
Tue,21 Dec 2021 11:27:21 +0100 State Advocate appeals against contempt of court decree in Keith Schembri phone data case
State Advocate Chris Soler says it is unheard of that a lawyer be condemned for contempt of court if his client changes his mind about whether or not to appeal a decree
Tue,21 Dec 2021 09:24:26 +0100 Metsola vows to represent EP majority voice amid ‘anti-abortion’ flak
Nationalist MEP Roberta Metsola told MEPs from major groups in the EP that she will represent the 'majority voice' on abortion if elected president of the House, over challenges from French MEPs on her anti-abortion voting record
Tue,21 Dec 2021 09:05:52 +0100 ‘Mussolini’ fracas: Brussels court gives MP’s brother conditional discharge
A Court of Appeal in Brussels gives three-year conditional discharge to Maltese civil servant at the European Union, but acquits him of incitement to hate towards people of Jewish faith