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‘I heard her screaming': Eyewitness recounts Daphne's final moments

Jurors in the trial of businessman Yorgen Fenech on Thursday heard harrowing testimony from an eyewitness who described seeing Daphne Caruana Galizia alive and trapped behind the wheel moments after...

latest comment from joe farrugia, 09/07/2026 20:23: Why, oh why, is the court wasting precious time into going through the details of how the murder was carried out by people already convicted and currently serving time in jail? The scope of this trial is to confirm ( if we really need further convincing) that Jurgen Fenech and perhaps others along with him, commissioned the killing. Today's sitting was an entirely waste of time aimed entirely on confusing the real issues and causing renewed grief to people close to Daphne. I am disappointed that the judge is allowing this. This is not a soap opera.
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31% of Malta’s population made up of foreigners, as net migration of almost 14,000 drives increase

31.1% of Malta’s population is now made up of foreign nationals, new data published by the National Statistics Office on the occasion of World Population Day on Thursday. The NSO said that...

latest comment from George Azzopardi, 10/07/2026 10:19: Whenever I question or criticize Malta's population growth, the usual response is that we need more people to work in hospitals and other professions that many Maltese no longer want to do. But has anyone looked at how many of the reported 14,000 increase were actually needed for these essential jobs? People also point out that foreigners are mainly working in restaurants. But have we stopped to notice how dramatically the number of restaurants has grown over the years? I remember when places like The Strand in Gżira, Valletta, Sliema and many other localities were full of a variety of shops. Today, many of those shops have been replaced by restaurants. Do we really need all these restaurants, or have they expanded to serve the growing population? In our hospitals, many nurses and care assistants are now foreign workers because too few Maltese are willing to work under the current conditions. Instead of relying almost entirely on foreign recruitment, has the government seriously tried to improve working conditions, salaries and career prospects to encourage more Maltese to enter these professions? It seems far easier for this administration to rely on continuous population growth to boost the economy than to pursue a more sustainable economic strategy. As a country, we also have to accept some responsibility, because we keep voting for the same policies. The same approach can be seen with traffic. More roads, flyovers and bridges are presented as the solution, yet congestion keeps getting worse. Recently, I simply wanted to go out for a Saturday morning coffee, but after sitting in traffic I turned around and went back home. Is this really the quality of life that Maltese people deserve? What's the point of creating more green spaces if many people are discouraged from visiting them because getting there has become so stressful?
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