Convicted murderer George Degiorgio claimed in court on Wednesday that the same group of people involved in an alleged 2015 plot to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia used pardoned middleman Melvin Theuma to revive the murder plan in 2017, aligning his testimony with claims previously made by the accused, Yorgen Fenech. Degiorgio, who was convicted of Caruana
A third of students who sat for their maths O-level exam were not awarded a grade when results were published on Tuesday, a significantly worse outcome than last year. A total of 1,590 students were handed the lowest possible classification of ‘NA’, almost 34% of the 4,694 students who were registered for the exam. This figure includes students who
A 41-year-old woman who was found dead in a car with popular DJ Ryan Spiteri has been named as Jessica Camilleri. She lived in St Paul's Bay and worked at the government's family welfare agency Aġenzija Appoġġ. She died on Tuesday from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in a Marsascala garage. Investigators suspect the tragedy occurred while Spiteri
PN MP Eve Borg Bonello on Wednesday questioned the need to introduce a new body to protect human rights when the Ombudsman could take on the role. “The first question we asked ourselves when we read this Bill was a simple one: before creating a new institution, do we really need to start from scratch?” she said. “Malta already has a constitutional
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