Labour MP Roderick Galdes, party spokesman for planning and housing, said he is instituting a libel suit against the Nationalist Party’s NET TV for a news item it carried about him and a development application in Balzan...

A 50-year-old man who admitted to cultivating a cannabis plant in 2001 was jailed for six months yesterday...

A man currently serving a prison term at the Corradino Correctional Facility changed his plea in another case after the presiding magistrate indicated that he would not be awarding bail. ...

A Dutch student who spent the last semester at the University of Malta was yesterday jailed for six months suspended for a year after pleading guilty to lodging a false police report in order to claim insurance money....

A 65-year-old man yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charges of corrupting two minors in 1996 and before. ...

A magistrates’ court yesterday remanded a man in custody under a recommendation to start a drug rehabilitation programme after hearing that he had a serious drug abuse problem. ...

A 70-year-old man was acquitted of forging Malta Maritime Authority documents on 2 March 2006 in order to acquire a nautical licence....

A court yesterday entrusted Agenzija SEDQA to compile a pre-sentencing report on a 24-year-old who pleaded guilty to burglary after just being released from jail....

A 22-year-old man was jailed for three months suspended for a year after he was found guilty of entering in to a marriage of convenience with a Russian woman on 19 May 2007....

A 22 year-old-man was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to stealing €800 between 24 and 26 March....