The government will finance the first four months of a new scheme which will see packaging waste being collected on a door-to-door basis, said Environment Minister George Pullicino yesterday....

Magistrate Antonio Mizzi yesterday refused to preside over a case in which Chief Justice Vincent De Gaetano was parte civile, saying that he was doing so in the interest of justice....

A Gozitan part-time farmer was yesterday jailed for 18 years and fined €45,000 (Lm19,318) after a panel of jurors found him guilty to cultivating, possessing and trafficking in over 19 kilogrammes of dried cannabis leaves worth €47,100 (Lm20,220)....

The Malta Union of Teachers does not agree with the Malta Labour Party’s proposal to add another year through a reception class between kindergarten and primary schooling, saying that it will cost millions of euros that could easily be invested elsewhere....

The cultural events forming part of the Chinese Spring Festival continued yesterday with a display in Republic Street, Valletta....

JOHN AZZOPARDI guides us round a little known museum in Rabat...

Marisa Turkdogan filed an application with the First Hall of Civil Court asking it to annul a management agreement she had undertaken with VAB Company Limited regarding the management of Jumbo Lido of Qui-Si-Sana, Sliema on 8 May 1997....

A two-week jail sentence that was handed down to two teenage girls was changed to three years probation by a court of appeal....

Dr Natalino Fenech was yesterday appointed news manager and registered editor of the Public Broadcasting Services Ltd (PBS)....

Parliament yesterday unanimously ratified the Lisbon Treaty after a parliamentary debate on the ratification motion....