The budget presented yesterday still dominates most of the news portals today. However today’s news cycle also had other issues, which were presented by Malta’s main news portals as follows:
A woman was found dead in Ganu Street Birkirkara at around 1.45pm on Tuesday. Sources on location told Newsbook.com.mt that the corpse of the woman, which is lying on the sidewalk was later covered with a sheet. The residence in front of which the dead woman was found is not hers. Police sources explained that it is highly possible that the woman died of natural causes. Forensic experts will be on location shortly.
Eurostat figures on EU member states’ debt show that in the three months between last April and June, Malta was among the most European countries which managed to reduce Government’s debt.
A free and democratic country should not witness the killing of those who work to tell the truth, European President Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday afternoon. He was speaking at the EP in Strasbourg, before the unveiling of a portrait of Daphne Caruana Galizia. “We are here today to honour Daphne’s bravery and recall her life and works,” Tajani said. The portrait is the work of Danish/Swedish artist Marie Louise Kold, who lives in Sweden and Malta and is a donation by the artist to the family and not commissioned by the EP. The family has asked President Tajani to exhibit it in the EP and he has accepted.
Two men apprehended by the police on Sunday were jailed after they admitted to armed robbery in court. The men, both aged 28, filed a guilty plea when they appeared in front of Magistrate Neville Camilleri on Tuesday.
A man who allegedly threatened his young daughter with a throat-slitting gesture, was remanded in custody on Tuesday after that umpteenth incident sparked a report by the girl’s mother alleging that she had been raped by the man in August. The alleged culprit, a 51-year old Hamrun resident, was arrested and questioned by the police before being arraigned over charges related to the alleged rape of his estranged partner and threats made to her and the couple’s two young children.
