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Maria Mifsud MIFSUD. On December 8, at Mater Dei Hospital, MARIA, widow of George, aged 92. She leaves to mourn her loss her children Elizabeth, Joanne and her husband Godwin, Adrian and his wife Denise, Patricia and her husband Mario, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her brothers and sisters, in-laws, other relatives and friends. The funeral

The PN launched a seven-day "Christmas village" at its headquarters in Pieta, which will culminate in a fundraiser on Sunday and a mass rally on Monday. The party's leader, Alex Borg, launched the programme of events, themed Milied Miegħek (Christmas with you) , on Tuesday evening by switching on the Christmas lights decorating the facade of Dar Ċentrali

A Renal Unit is being set up at St Vincent de Paul Home for the elderly with a view to easing pressure off Mater Dei Hospital. Parliamentary Secretary Malcolm Paul Agius Galea, who is responsible for the elderly, said six machines would be installed and used by residents of the home and others in the community. One will be a backup machine for emergency

National anthems sometimes make Europeans uneasy: the French, about the blood and gore in the Marseillaise; the Finns, about the original Swedish lyrics; the Dutch, that startling reference to “German” blood; the poor Germans, two-thirds of it. Perhaps there’s no greater sign Malta has joined Europe: the Innu Malti shall have its national day and we

Victor Hahn of Għadira writes: An important infrastructure project has collapsed, with the only bid including a local company disappearing as mysteriously as it was awarded the contract in the first place. Meanwhile, garbage keeps piling up in the Magħtab landfill. I mean, have you looked at this thing? You only need to take a look out of the window

On December 1, Times of Malta ran a story with the headline ‘ Many doctors and nurses shun COVID booster vaccine – study ’. The study part implied that this conclusion was based on hard evidence, namely the findings of a survey published in the Malta Medical Journal.  But, as the article itself stated, only 24% of those invited to participate in this

There is the law, and the spirit of the law. The first should be straightforward, the second harder to pin down. But what happens when those roles switch – when the spirit seems clear but the law does not? This was arguably the case for medical doctor and Pain Clinic founder Andrew Agius , arrested in 2022 on controversial drug trafficking charges

He’s one of Malta’s most established retailers, but Pavi founder Victor Grech is now letting the public visit the product of his other great passion – model railways. Grech has been working on a massive, detailed model of a village for the past 20 years. He is now inviting the public into his Attard garage to see it for the first time, with donations

Three years after retiring from the bank at age 58, Mario Sammut has earned a first-class honours degree in photography, a passion he has held since childhood. After working for nearly four decades at Bank of Valletta, Sammut retired in September 2022. Just three days later, he enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts in Photography course at the Malta College