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Malta to have Public Service Media policy
The European Broadcasting Union is to assist Malta in a review and updating of the National Broadcasting Policy. The commitment was made in talks which Home Affairs Minister Emanuel Mallia had with EBU officials in Malmo. The EBU will provide the...
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Strong wind warning
The MIA Met Office warned this morning that a Northwest wind will be strong over the Maltese islands . The warning is valid tilll 9 pm. The sea will be rough.
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Man ‘bites off’ part of ear in fight
A man bit off a good part of another’s ear in a fight over a parking incident in which a little girl was involved, a court heard yesterday. Police picked up the bit of ear from the ground afterwards. The incident happened on Saturday evening, when...
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PN gives Busuttil his two deputies
Nationalist Party councillors yesterday approved a proposal by new leader Simon Busuttil for the party to have two deputy leaders instead of one. Councillors gathered at an extraordinary general council unanimously approved the statutory changes...
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Fenech Adami and Buttigieg go head-to-head for deputy leader
The two roles may seem to overlap but a deputy leader for party affairs can co-exist with the general secretary, according to Beppe Fenech Adami and Claudette Buttigieg. The two Nationalist MPs have confirmed they will be submitting their names for...
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Colour is the big winner at Malta Fashion Awards
The third edition of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Malta culminated in a grand finale with the Malta Fashion Awards on Saturday night. New and established designers showcased their collections to more than 4,000 fashionistas filling the MFCC in Ta’...
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Woman injured herself over imaginary beating
A spurned woman inflicted wounds on herself in an imagined story about her former boyfriend breaking into her home and beating her up. But she was yesterday cleared of filing a false police report after a court heard that the woman suffers from a...
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‘The promotion was not for myself, but for all of Malta’
The young farmer who gained popularity over the past weeks after featuring in an online video about potato harvesting in Malta remained undisturbed by the criticism it received. “I just took the criticism positively as it gave the video a push. On...
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Care order system ‘needs changing to help children’
The law regulating care orders needs to change to offer better protection to children, according to Sina Bugeja, chief executive officer of the Foundation for Social Welfare Services. Over the past days the care order system has been under fire.
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Birthday boy on rampage
A man who had been drinking to celebrate his birthday left a trail of damaged cars and motorbikes in his wake on the way home. Anthony Camilleri, from Sliema, was drinking at a bar at the Ferries on Friday night. Leaving the bar he went on a...
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Police guidelines may be published
When and how a police officer should use a firearm is stipulated by internal guidelines that cover a multitude of other topics. These guidelines, which include regulations on the use of pepper spray, tazer guns and how strip searches should be...
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Man denies drug charge
A man was yesterday charged with being in possession of cocaine that was found in circumstances denoting it was not for his personal use. Vincent Calleja, 41, from Gżira, also denied being in possession of cannabis. Police received confidential...
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St Paul’s Bay loses priest
The parish priest of St Paul’s Bay, Joseph Cilia, died yesterday aged 61. Born in February 1952, Fr Cilia – a Franciscan – was ordained as a priest in March 1980. He had been a parish priest since September 2007. The funeral will be held today and...
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Man dies after fall
The 64-year-old man who was grievously injured when he fell a height of around one storey on Thursday has died, the police said. The man had been working a field at Bidnija Valley, limits of Mosta, together with his 60-year-old wife. An autopsy will...
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Prisoners club together to buy tablet for their ‘angel’
Sitting quietly in his wheelchair, Damian Ebejer’s angelic blue eyes lit up and his lips curled into a shy smile as he was given a tablet computer bought by prison inmates yesterday. Some 400 prisoners pooled in €1 each to help brighten up the life...
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Directory updated to get women on committees
The Directory of Maltese Women, which identifies qualified women in various fields, is being updated by the Government in a bid to change the heavily male-dominated policymaking sector. The directory is a database created some years back to give...
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‘People I don’t even know helped my family’
Two months ago Sarah* could barely sleep at night because she was haunted by the thought of her debt and worried about how she would feed her son. But things are slowly improving for the 25-year-old thanks to “the kind people out there and the...
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Stories cast a magical spell on Verdala Palace
Children and adults alike looked on in awe as Professor Snape waved his wand and a table was magically lifted into the air, as the main hall of Verdala Palace was converted into Hogwarts’ Great Hall from the Harry Potter series. Meanwhile,...
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VAT on commercial yachts
The Court of Magistrates (Malta), presided over by Magistrate Francesco Depasquale, on May 3, 2013, in the case ‘S&D Yachts Ltd vs MY Nautonnier’, held, among other things, that a vessel registered as a commercial yacht was not automatically...
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Love birds
These two Black Winged Stilts in a loving mood were snapped at the Għadira Nature Reserve yesterday, during World Migratory Bird Day.
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On the dot
This hole in Sliema is located on a pedestrian footpath leading to the zebra crossing that links the large traffic island in the middle of the Ferries to the bus stop by the sea. Last week an elderly man was looking out for his bus as he was about...
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