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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



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