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Tue,19 Jan 2021 10:41:13 +0100 Police stopped 7,000 cars in inspections carried out during the last three months of 2020
Searches by police yield cannabis grass, crushers, fire arms and other weapons in inspections carried out during October, November and December
Tue,19 Jan 2021 10:08:19 +0100 Yorgen Fenech compilation: Court bars publication of psychiatrists' findings on Melvin Theuma
The first compilation of evidence hearing against Yorgen Fenech for 2021 is a short sitting during which several experts presented their findings • Court bars reporting of psychiatrists' findings on Melvin Theuma
Tue,19 Jan 2021 10:02:55 +0100 Book Council says MCC prioritising Cirque du Soleil instead of book festival
National Book Council says it risks losing traditional November slot for book festival due to Cirque du Soleil pre-booking
Tue,19 Jan 2021 09:40:58 +0100 Joe Brincat’s arrest in Italy three decades ago revisited in libel case
The arrest and subsequent sentencing of former Labour Party deputy leader Joe Brincat in Italy 33 years ago was brought up in court recently during libel proceedings against MediaToday executive director Saviour Balzan
Tue,19 Jan 2021 08:45:21 +0100 Novartis monopoly can be challenged, says health ministry over drugs dispute
Novartis Malta has filed an appeal before the Public Contracts Review Board to stop the government from issuing a competitive procurement process for a medication it already has stocks for
Tue,19 Jan 2021 08:42:48 +0100 Lack of data about vaccine poses difficult choice for pregnant women
Doctors and pregnant women have been left in the dark with little data still available on the COVID-19 vaccine
Tue,19 Jan 2021 08:18:24 +0100 ‘We are ready for a June election’ | Hermann Schiavone
From gender balance in Parliament, to the state of the PN four months into Grech’s leadership, Nationalist MP HERMANN SCHIAVONE is confident that the Opposition is finding its feet
Tue,19 Jan 2021 07:53:29 +0100 The party-owned broadcasting media
It’s about time the PN starts adopting a social media strategy to balance that of the Labour party
Tue,19 Jan 2021 07:52:58 +0100 Speedy Gulia (aka 'The fastest resignation in the West')...
Speedy Gulia has decided to apply his Superhero skills to the one area that arguably needs them least. Why? Is it because – as implied by the Opposition’s doubts – Robert Abela wanted someone else in his Parliamentary group, at thi...
Mon,18 Jan 2021 18:28:09 +0100 Muscat's loose tongue prompts an etymology lesson on the term 'żobiku'
The ex-PM's choice of language in today's court hearing raised a few eyebrows, and sparked off an etymological lesson on the word itself on social media
Mon,18 Jan 2021 18:16:21 +0100 Two out of five COVID-19 patients on a ventilator died last year
Figures tabled in parliament show that 40 out of the 99 patients with COVID-19 who were placed on a ventilator last year died
Mon,18 Jan 2021 17:49:49 +0100 Gender corrective mechanism to boost women MPs clears Second Reading in parliament
Equality Parliamentary Secretary Rosianne Cutajar closes the Second Reading debate on the gender corrective mechanism
Mon,18 Jan 2021 17:14:57 +0100 Caruana Galizia murder suspect awarded €7,000 compensation for rights breach
Alfred Degiorgio has been awarded compensation after the constitutional court finds his rights were breached when proceedings over a cash van hold-up dragged on for 17 years
Mon,18 Jan 2021 16:38:58 +0100 Constitutional case filed over Balluta ferry permit
Moviment Graffitti and Arnold Cassola say permit for Balluta ferry landing place should be suspended while an appeal is ongoing
Mon,18 Jan 2021 16:23:58 +0100 Oliver Scicluna officially co-opted into parliament
Scicluna has taken the oath of allegiance as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party
Mon,18 Jan 2021 16:22:12 +0100 Increasing women MPs: accelerating history
With 95 votes to her name before being eliminated, entrepreneur and Labour candidate Marion Mizzi would have made it to parliament in 2017 if the gender corrective mechanism was applied. Kurt Sansone explains how
Mon,18 Jan 2021 15:53:43 +0100 [WATCH] Adrian Delia says government should negotiate with Steward from a position of strength
Nationalist MP Adrian Delia rebukes Joseph Muscat for failing to indicate what decisions his Cabinet took on the hospitals concession deal and insists the current administration must negotiate with Steward Healthcare from a position of str...
Mon,18 Jan 2021 15:32:36 +0100 [WATCH] Paceville bar fights: Byron Camilleri says it is up to health authorities to tighten restrictions
Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri says 6,000 fines related to breaches of COVID-19 regulations were handed out in the last three months of 2020 as police unions complain on lax restrictions on bars
Mon,18 Jan 2021 15:19:31 +0100 PN shadow Cabinet reshuffle underway
Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech is calling in all his MPs for one-on-one meetings as he maps out a reshuffle of his shadow Cabinet
Mon,18 Jan 2021 12:57:21 +0100 COVID-19: 154 new cases, as vaccinations reach 11,700
COVID-19 update for 18 January | 2 deaths • 154 new cases, 121 recoveries • 2,784 active cases • Swab tests past 24 hours 3,239 • Vaccine doses administered till Sunday 11,705