Parliament has unanimously voted to suspend its deadline to appoint a new Auditor General, meaning that Audit General Charles Deguara will - for now - remain in his post. Extending this constitutional post was backed by both sides of the House as otherwise, the Auditor General position greatly risked remaining vacant by the stipulated deadline. Due
The handling of a rape case dating back to 2008 in Gozo, in which the accused were acquitted in recent days, has raised serious concern because of the disturbing manoeuvres associated with it, ADPD The Green Party said Wednesday.. The case has sparked outrage not only because the system appeared to protect the alleged perpetrators more than the victim,
A former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40 was installed as archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, in a ceremony celebrating her election as the first woman to lead the Church of England. Although Sarah Mullally, 63, formally became archbishop in January, Wednesday's event marked the beginning of her public ministry as both the head
A man suffered life threatening injuries after a fall from height on Wednesday afternoon. Police said that the accident happened at 4:30pm in a residence in Triq il-Mina tax-Xatt in Senglea. The victim is a 52-year-old man from Fgura, and the police said that he had fallen from height. He was taken to Mater Dei Hospital for treatment where he was certified
It’s not the first time I’ve been in wonderment, but last Sunday the wonderment became difficult to ignore. I gazed in wonderment on the audacity with which a straight face was maintained while the mouth was spewing potential porkies like an assembly line on steroids. “It’s nearly ready,” Bobby told us, with the air of a waiter soothing a table whose
Ten years after Parliament unanimously recognised Maltese Sign Language as a national language, Malta has every reason to look back with pride. That decision was more than a legal milestone. It was a statement about the kind of country we claim to be: inclusive, respectful and conscious that dignity is not something to be selectively granted, but something
The head of Europe’s video game rating system, PEGI, has warned against supposed “silver bullet” child protection solutions such as age verification. A new set of PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) age ratings, coming into force from June, will take into account factors including in-game purchases, incentives to constantly revisit games or the ability
The European Union is set to implement what is widely regarded as the most significant overhaul of its investment funds framework in over a decade, through the introduction of AIFMD II and the parallel updates to the UCITS regime (commonly referred to as 'UCITS VI'), under Directive (EU) 2024/927 which amends the existing AIFMD and UCITS frameworks,
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah announced Tuesday he will leave the English club at the end of the season, marking an earlier-than-planned departure for one of the club's greatest-ever scorers and soccer's biggest names. The 33-year-old Egypt forward, who has scored 255 goals in 435 appearances for Liverpool, "reached an agreement" to quit the team a
Italian singer-songwriter Gino Paoli, who wrote the much-loved hits "Il Cielo in Una Stanza" and "Sapore di Sale", has died at the age of 91, his family said in a statement quoted by Italian media Tuesday. Paoli became famous in the early 1960s and was the leading voice of a generation of Italian musicians inspired by Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens
