Last year 29 persons were ‘recognised’ as leasing government property and 24 this year up until August, Social Affairs Minister Dolores Cristina told Jason Azzopardi.The minister continued to explain, also with regard to further questions by Stefan...

The government yesterday announced its intention to amend the law regulating the transfer of government land so that public auctions of land may be held. Meanwhile, the other methods used to pass public land to citizens will all be retained, such as...

A nine-year-old boy was seriously injured yesterday after he was hit by a car in Zebbug....

“After I fired the second shot and hit my wife in the leg, she started screaming. I could not stand her screaming. I wanted it to stop so I aimed the shot gun at her head,” said Louis Fenech while tearfully giving a detailed account of the incident t...

The more time passes, the more Michael has become unable to walk any great distance or sit or stand in one place/position for any length of time without suffering some form of stress pain, especially in the spine....

A magistrate’s court yesterday ruled a man was not guilty of causing the death of another man through negligence. The man accused was the owner of the dumper being driven by the victim, who fell six storeys to his death while driving the said vehicle...

Three men were each sentenced to prison for three years and two months after admitting to a series of armed robberies, including a number of snatch-and-grabs and the hold-up of a Lotto office, from which they stole Lm400 in March 2004....

Four young men were given a three-year conditional discharge after they admitted assaulting two police officers, seriously injuring one of them and causing a slight injury to the other when the officers stopped them for not wearing a seat belt....

A bus driver was sentenced to a two-year jail term ,suspended for four, after being found guilty of damaging and tampering with a bus ticket vending machine....

An 18-year-old from San Gwann was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing from a San Gwann cafe. The court ordered him to be detained at Mount Carmel Hospital, instead of Corradino Correctional Facility, while he waits to be accepted into a reh...