MaltaToday rolling survey published 17 March | PL 53.3%; PN 44.7%; Others 2.1%

Just by attending that event, and accepting the hospitality so lavishingly bestowed upon him by that one lobby-group… Robert Abela has sent out a very clear, very public message

The fiscal austerity that characterised the Gonzi years has been exorcised by a decade of increased public spending financed by higher economic growth: a ‘grow and spend’ model which left the country richer, but uglier and more unequal. ...

The Skinny | No 130 – Beatdown at the Academy

The Skinny | No 130 – Beatdown at the Academy

Sea wall obscuring natural cliff-face comes in the wake of 9-storey hotel plans and bather’s injury from falling rocks

Independent candidate files corrupt practice report to Electoral Commission and OSCE over distribution of COVID relief and tax credit cheques midway through election

Abela and Grech are back to debating while church party ABBA demands criminal investigation against pro-choice activists – this is what Day 24 looked like 

Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba calls a Russian attack on a theatre sheltering civilians a ‘horrendous war crime’

The government hunting advisory committee, Ornis, recommends lifting a moratorium on the hunting of turtle dove in spring

Prime Minister says people and businesses know where they stand with the Labour government

The former Nationalist MP was invited to speak on mental health at a Labour Party conference on wellbeing

The UĦM Voice of the Workers suspends industrial action in the public sector after civil service chief promises collective agreement talks will resume immediately after election

MEPs discuss Recovery and Resilience Fund with Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa

Police had intercepted packages containing eight kilos of khat, that had been sent to Malta by courier

Azzopardi played many leading roles and took part in several television productions, cultural programmes, interviews, discussions and also Maltese tv series

The ADPD chairman accused the Labour and Nationalist Party of failing to address overdevelopment through the local plans

Two women were found to be carrying four kilos of cocaine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeals to NATO allies to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine and to provide more weapons to help the country fight off Russian airstrikes 

Robert Abela dismisses the idea to reverse the 2006 rationalisation exercise that had extended the development zones, insisting it will give rise to compensation claims