Although most of the Eastern Seaboard is still quite crazy following the Boston Sox’s triumph in the World Series, the talk in the United States is still pretty much on the Presidential election. Radio and television stations are belting out polls th...

Government owes almost 50,000 taxpayers Lm20 million in VAT refunds, said the Prime Minister, replying to a question from Leo Brincat....

Following the government’s decision to repeal the Lm25 yearly licence on satellite dishes as from 1 May, the Competitiveness and Communications Ministry will start issuing respective refunds by next week. This decision was taken by the government in ...

An appeal’s court has reduced a man’s jail term by nine months because his criminal record was not as long as that of his accomplice and he should therefore be given a lighter sentence. Both men were convicted of stealing around Lm18,000 from Vibro B...

There is a great need for cooperation in investigating cases of potential cross-EU border irregularities and fraud, said European Anti-Fraud Office head Franz Hermann Bruener yesterday....

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority Board (Mepa) finally gave the go-ahead for the demolition and re-development of four warehouses at Ta’ Xbiex Seafront, next to Whitehall Mansions, yesterday....

The Chamber for Small and Medium Enterprises (GRTU) has requested the Malta Resources Authority to inform it what procedures and regulations are being used by MRA as Energy Regulator to ensure that the impact on enterprises and consumers of any rise ...

A man was accused yesterday of seriously injuring a British tourist while trying to rob him last Wednesday evening....

The man who was found in a drifting speed boat with five illegal immigrants on board first claimed he was going to trick the immigrants and take them to Gozo, but later admitted to police that he had been planning to take the three Chinese and two Li...

The opposition’s attitude of shooting down every proposal for reform made by the government is no longer tenable, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said yesterday. The government will not wait for the opposition to take action on matters of national inte...