04

Feb

Cassola files FOI on Abela-Magistrate chat / Malta News Briefing – Saturday 4 February 2023

Updated 1300 Cassola files FOI on Abela-Magistrate chat: Independent candidate Arnold Cassola has filed a Freedom of Information request to obtain more details on the conversation Prime Minister Robert Abela…

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04

Feb

UPDATE – 4.8 tremor registered close to Malta

A 4.8 Richter scale tremor has been registered on Saturday morning by Malta's Seismic Monitoring and Research Group at the University of Malta. The tremor was felt at 0704h local…

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03

Feb

Maltese most worried about climate change – EU survey / Malta News Briefing – Friday 3 January 2023

Updated 1725 The Times of Malta reports that Italy's coastguard has recovered the dead bodies of eight people, including a pregnant woman, from Maltese search and rescue waters, according to…

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02

Feb

AML Regulator imposes hefty fine on APS Bank / Malta News Briefing – Thursday 2 February 2023

Updated 1645 - Newsportal Review The Times of Malta reports that an anonymous but “reliable” source had informed the police about an argument that escalated into a knife fight between…

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01

Feb

Koħħu tells court that Degiorgio and Chris Cardona discussed hit on Caruana Galizia /Malta News Briefing – Wednesday 1 February 2023

Updated 1530 The Times of Malta reports that hitman Vince Muscat has told a court that he drove George Degiorgio to Portomaso to meet with Chris Cardona and discuss a…

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31

Jan

Malta loses ground on Transparency index / Malta News Briefing – Tuesday 31 January 2023

Updated 1030 Malta loses ground on Transparency index: Malta continued to lose ground in Transparency International's corruption index, obtaining a 51 ranking as opposed to 53 last year. Countries are…

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30

Jan

Man found dead in Għasri / Malta News Briefing – Monday 30 January 2023

Updated 1800 Man found dead in Għasri: The body of a 60-year-old man from Victoria was discovered on a field in Għasri earlier this morning. According to The Times of…

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29

Jan

Updated – Malta News Briefing – Sunday 29 January 2023

News Update Prime minister insists on review of sentencing policies and accuses PN of conflict of interest Prime Minister Robert Abela has once again called on the courts to be…

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28

Jan

Malta to be taken to EU Court on trapping/ Malta News Briefing – Saturday 28 January 2023

Updated 1145 Club delegates ask Portelli to think twice about donning Spartans kit Several football club representatives have discouraged Joseph Portelli from registering as a player with Ħamrun Spartans FC,…

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27

Jan

NextGenerationEU: EC endorses a positive preliminary assessment of Malta’s request for a €52.3 million disbursement under the RRF

The European Commission has today endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Malta's payment request for €52.3 million (net of pre-financing) in grants under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the…

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27

Jan

President addresses abortion, migration in Holocaust remembrance / Malta News Briefing – Friday 27 January 2023

Updated 1110 Abortion, Migration on President's mind in Holocaust remembrance article President George Vella calls out the politics of 'us and them' in an opinion piece published in The Malta…

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26

Jan

Malta News Briefing – Thursday 26 January 2023

Updated 1210 Four new Magistrates appointed Kevan Azzopardi, Gianella Camilleri Busuttil, Abigail Critien and Joseph Gatt will be sworn in as magistrates after they were selected for the post from…

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25

Jan

Effectively fighting money-laundering matters should remain a priority, accountants insist

Money-laundering in society brings about a stream of negative social and economic costs to the wider community. In this context, during this year’s AML Conference, the Malta Institute of Accountants…

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25

Jan

Firm gets oil exploration licence / Malta News Briefing – Wednesday 25 January 2023

Updated 1615 The Times of Malta reports that two teenagers have been charged with assault in connection with a violent attack in Valletta that left a child with a broken…

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24

Jan

FIAU Chair nominated for MFSA role / Malta News Briefing – Tuesday 24 January 2023

Updated 1710 - Afternoon Portal Review The Times of Malta reports that FIAU chairman Jesmond Gatt has been nominated by the government to chair the board of the Malta Financial…

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24

Jan

Malta registers largest drop in household expenditure

Malta reported the largest decrease in household expenditure in the European Union between 2019 and 2021, according to Eurostat. From 2019 to 2021, 16 EU Member States registered a decrease…

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24

Jan

Government, EU Commission launch €2bn funding package for Malta

Government has formally launched the European Union operational programmes and plans allocated for Malta from 2021-2027, with a package exceeding €2 billion. Prime Minister Robert Abela stated that this was…

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23

Jan

5.2 Magnitude tremor felt in areas across the island / Malta News Briefing – Monday 23 January 2023

Updated 1700 - Afternoon Portal Review Newsbook reports that a tremor of 5.2 magnitude on the Richter scale was registered in the Central Mediterranean Sea on Monday morning. The tremor…

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23

Jan

Malta: Inflation tops 7.35% by end of year

In December 2022, the annual rate of inflation as measured by the RPI was 7.35 per cent, up from the 7.12 per centin November 2022, the NSO said today. The…

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22

Jan

Malta sends industrial, health equipment to Ukraine / Malta News Briefing – Sunday 22 January 2023

Update - 1700h Abela urges courts to send strong messages Prime Minister Robert Abela on Sunday urged the courts to send a “strong message” in the wake of Pelin Kaya’s…

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21

Jan

Two men acquitted of Sion Grech murder / Malta News Briefing – Saturday 21 January 2023

Updated 1300 GTA says public funds could support Gozo airstrip Gozo’s association of tourism operators has reiterated its stand in favour of the extension of the helipad at Ta’ Lambert…

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20

Jan

Robbie Williams to perform in Malta in Summer / Malta News Briefing – Friday 20 January 2023

Afternoon Portal Review The Times of Malta says that a vigil in memory of Pelin Kaya, the 30-year-old Turkish woman killed in a horrific incident on Wednesday, is being held this…

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19

Jan

Jeremie Camilleri to be charged with Gżira murder / Malta News Briefing – Thursday 19 January 2023

Updated 1750 Times of Malta reports about the arraignment of Jeremie Camilleri who is being charged with homicide in connection with yesterday's tragic Gzira event. In yet another shocking development,…

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18

Jan

Man named as suspect after woman killed in Gzira car hit / Malta News Briefing – Wednesday 18 January 2023

Updated 1610 - Newsportal Review Maltatoday says that Jeremie Camilleri, Franco-Maltese national convicted of a series of petty thefts, is the motorist suspected of having ran over woman and killing her…

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17

Jan

Non-EU workers increase by 10 times in past decade / Malta News Briefing – Tuesday 17 January 2023

Updated 1700 - Afternoon Portal Briefing The Times of Malta reports that PN health spokesperson Stephen Spiteri said that if the amendments announced by Health Minister Chris Fearne last week…

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16

Jan

Malta’s corporate tax third highest in the world, study finds / Malta News Briefing – Monday 16 January 2023

Updated 1800 - Afternoon Portal Review Newsbook quotes an international study which found that Malta’s corporate tax rate is among the highest in the world. At 35%, Malta’s direct tax…

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15

Jan

UPDATE – Abortion law amendments amongst issues dealt by political leaders – Malta News Briefing – Sunday 15 January 2023

Update 1330h PM open to mechanism to prevent abuse in abuse legal amendments Prime Minister Robert Abela said he is open to consider introducing a mechanism to prevent abusing a…

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14

Jan

Customs Malta intercepts 40kgs of cocaine at the Freeport

40kgs of cocaine were intercepted by Customs Malta in a reefer container en-route from Puerto Rico to Cairo. The cocaine was found in 40 packets each containing approximately 1kg of…

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14

Jan

Man jailed 20 years in satanic abuse case / Malta News Briefing – Saturday 14 January 2023

Update 1700 Health Ministry denies report of patient's death in Mater Dei emergency corridor The Health Ministry has categorically denied claims that a patient at Mater Dei died in the…

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13

Jan

President calls for wider EU role on Med issues / Malta News Briefing – Friday 13 January 2023

Updated 1630 The Times of Malta reveals that the government has concluded negotiations to purchase the building occupied by the De Paule band club in Paola. The figure that will…

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12

Jan

Airport traffic still a fifth of pre-pandemic levels / Malta News Briefing – Thursday 12 November 2023

Updated 1730 The Times of Malta says that an amendment to the law that bans gay conversion therapy will strengthen the legislation to also make it illegal for anyone to…

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12

Jan

Malta: Debt levels reach €8.73bn – NSO

General Government debt has reached €8.73 billion, or 53.2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), NSO data shows. In the third quarter of 2022, the government has also recorded…

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11

Jan

Malta lags behind in sanctioning Russian assets – EU

Malta, together with Greece, lags behind their European Union peers in freezing Russian assets sanctioned over Moscow's war against Ukraine, according to an EU official and an internal document, as the…

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11

Jan

Updated – Malta News Briefing – Wednesday 11 January 2023

Updated 1500 - Newsportal Review The Times of Malta says that former minister Evarist Bartolo has criticised a police decision to criminally charge a satirist over a Facebook comment he…

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11

Jan

Apco Ltd partners with Stromkind GmbH

Automation and security provider Apco Ltd has signed a partnership agreement with autonomous systems developer Stromkind GmbH to bring the latest drone technology to Malta. The partnership will allow Apco…

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10

Jan

Engineer violently mugged on bus stop / Malta News Briefing – Tuesday 10 January 2022

Updated 1700 The Times of Malta shares the story of an Indian engineer who was attacked with a hammer in a violent mugging as he waited at the Bombi bus…

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10

Jan

Maltese Government and business partners in joint collaboration promoting energy efficiency

The Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise, together with Malta’s business partners, launched an information campaign promoting energy efficiency for businesses in Malta and Gozo. The campaign, ‘Be Efficient.…

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10

Jan

Malta: 11% increase in persons adding a part-time job to their full-time

The number of part-timers who held both a full-time and part-time job increased by 11% in just a year, the NSO said. Fresh data by the Statistics office shows that…

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09

Jan

Updated – Malta News Briefing – Monday 9 January 2023

Updated 1615 The Times of Malta reports that the owner of satirical news site Bis-Serjetà has been charged with making online threats after he implied that evangelical group River of Love should…

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08

Jan

Malta News Briefing – Sunday 8 January 2023

Update 1700h Anti-deadlock mechanism is anti-democratic - PN Leader Grech PN leader Bernard Grech said that the anti-deadlock mechanism that would allow for the appointment of the government’s preferred standards…

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07

Jan

Netherlands, Malta and Portugal to require negative COVID test from China air travellers

The Maltese, Dutch and Portuguese governments on Friday joined a growing number of nations requiring air passengers arriving from China to show a negative COVID-19 test upon entry. On Friday,…

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07

Jan

Malta News Briefing – Saturday 7 January 2023

Updated 1140 Man Utd team bus gets stuck in collapsed road Not the best of adverts for Malta as the Birkirkara woman's time hosted English giants Manchester United. The latter…

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06

Jan

UPDATE – Arrivals from China to Malta require negative COVID-19 test / Malta News Briefing – Friday 6 January 2023

Update 1835 Arrivals from China to Malta require negative COVID-19 test As of the 9th of January arrivals from China have to be in possession of a negative COVID-19 rapid…

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05

Jan

Inquiry into state failure relating to Bernice Cassar murder extended / Malta News Briefing – Thursday 5 January 2023

Updated 1730 - Afternoon Portal Review Maltatoday follows the latest Court sitting where a Magistrate was told that Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Chief Executive Sigmund Mifsud held a meeting with top…

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04

Jan

“A viable foetus must be born” – Fearne / Malta News Briefing – Wednesday 4 January 2023

Updated 1530 - Newsportal Afternoon Review Times of Malta reports that the HPV (Human papillomavirus) vaccine will also start being given to boys aged 12+. During a Health Ministry presser,…

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03

Jan

Former Labour MP Silvio Parnis dies / Malta News Briefing – Tuesday 3 January 2023

Updated - Newsportal Review The Times of Malta reports that several former employees of a taxi fleet claim that they have not been paid months’ worth of salaries, with some…

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02

Jan

Archbishop defends late Pope’s record on handling clerical abuse / Malta News Briefing – Monday 2 January 2023

Updated 1700 The Times of Malta reveals that plans to build a five-storey apartment block that would tower just 200 metres away from the protected Ġgantija Temples in Xagħra have…

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01

Jan

UPDATE – Two more deaths due to Covid-19 / Malta News Briefing – 1 January 2023

Updated 1230 Two Covid-19 deaths reported Two persons have died while they were positive for coronavirus, according to the report issued by health authorities on Sunday. Covid has claimed the…

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31

Dec

Two men arrested after Paola shooting – Malta News Briefing – Saturday 31 December 2022

Updated 1630 TVM leads with news that two men were arrested in connection with the shooting incident this morning at a field close to the Addolorata cemetery. The men, aged…

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30

Dec

Retail outlets happy with Christmas business – SME Chamber / Malta News Briefing – Friday 30 December 2022

Updated 1530 The Times of Malta, quoting the Chamber of SMEs, says that retail sales were strong over Christmas and on Boxing Day throughout the island. While the year as…

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29

Dec

Health Ministry raises alarm of medicinal shortage / Malta News Briefing – Thursday 29 December 2022

Mid-Day Briefing The Times of Malta says that the Planning Authority has granted a permit for the redevelopment of a derelict farmhouse in Rabat after the Church backtracked on its…

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28

Dec

Malta News Briefing – Wednesday 28 December 2022

Updated 1700 The Times of Malta reveals that patients had to be wheeled past the source of a fire at Gozo General Hospital on Christmas Day because a fire exit…

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27

Dec

Remote working in Malta reaches 30% / Malta News Briefing – Tuesday 27 December 2022

Updated 1200 The Times of Malta says that Gozo has begun preparations to submit a bid for the title of European Region of Gastronomy. The initiative forms part of a…

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26

Dec

Malta News Briefing – Monday 26 December 2022

Updated 1110 L-Istrina commencing shortly: At Noon today the traditional Christmas fundraiser, L-Istrina returns for its 27th year. This 12 hour fund-raising telethon will start at 12pm today to collect…

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25

Dec

Malta News Briefing – Sunday 25 December 2022

A Merry and Peaceful Christmas to our Readers! Morning Briefing New home for 'mistreated kids' Two children have been relocated to another family after their school's rector made a public…

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24

Dec

Gaming firm quits just before Christmas / Malta News Briefing- Saturday 24 December 2022

Mid-Day Briefing Gaming firm quits just before Christmas A gaming firm has closed off its operations in Malta, terminating the job for around 140 remaining employees. Employees were in for…

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23

Dec

Two pupils suspended after alleged sexual assault at school / Malta News Briefing – Friday 23 December 2022

Updated 1245 The Times of Malta reveals that two 12-year-old pupils at a state school have been suspended after they allegedly sexually assaulted a girl of 11 in class. The…

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