Speaker denies blocking of PN request to discuss hospitals inquiry was ‘pre-arranged’ with Abela
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has denied that the blocking of a request by the Opposition to have a parliamentary debate on the hospitals inquiry was “pre-arranged” with...
Updated: Man critically injured after falling off ladder dies in hospital
A man was critically injured on Wednesday afternoon after he fell off a ladder in a private residence in Xemxija, the police said. The accident took place in Triq l-Awwista at 4.30pm. The...
March tourism sees 38% rise, NSO says
Total inbound tourists for March 2024 were estimated at 240,851, an increase of 38.1 per cent when compared to the corresponding month in 2023, the NSO said Thursday. During the month under...
Happy 300th Floriana
Today, 9 May is Floriana’s 300th birthday! On this day, three hundred years ago, in 1724, the Portuguese Grandmaster Manoel De Vilhena ruled out in a decree that the area which today is known as...
Robert Abela’s thesis: ‘A judge must be free from political or other pressures’
Anyone is free to change one’s mind, but there is a chasm between what Robert Abela wrote as a law student in his thesis more than 20 years ago, and what he is practising today. Since...