The Nationalist Party’s decision to refrain from commenting on Yorgen Fenech’s trial has proved to be the right one, Opposition leader Alex Borg said on Friday. Borg spoke to Times of Malta shortly after Justice Edwina Grima rejected a defence request to dissolve the jury following concerns over court-provided tablets given to jurors. The defence made
Yorgen Fenech told the jury on Friday that Keith Schembri was the person who drew him into dealings with Melvin Theuma after Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination, including passing on warnings about police investigations. Taking the witness stand in his own defence after the judge dismissed a call from the defence for the jury's dissolution ( see
A 41-year-old man from Ħal-Qormi has suffered serious injuries after the van he was driving caught fire and crashed into the parapet of a private residence in Ħaż-Żebbuġ. The accident happened at around noon on Friday in Triq il-Mithna. According to a preliminary investigation, the man was driving a Ford Transit van when, for an as-yet unknown reason,
A rock formation has collapsed along the coast of the Aħrax area near Għadira, prompting Mellieħa Mayor Gabriel Micallef to issue an urgent safety warning to the public, though no injuries have been reported. In a social media announcement, Micallef stressed that nature's unpredictability makes cliffs and unstable rock formations a serious hazard.