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Repubblika demands accountability after latest Vitals case issue
Times of Malta
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July 8, 2025
Repubblika demanded an explanation and accountability on Tuesday after the Swiss authorities rejected a Maltese request for judicial cooperation in the Vitals Hospitals case against Joseph Muscat and others, owing to shortcomings in the request. A...
REACTION: NHS 10 Year Plan
Med-Tech Insights
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July 3, 2025
On 3rd July 2025, the UK Government announced the launch of the 10 Year Plan for the NHS. The plan sets out how the government aims to ‘reinvent’ the health service into one that is ‘fit for the future’ through ‘radical change.’ Med-Tech Insights...
Surprising risks found in popular cinnamon brands across Europe
Medical News
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July 8, 2025
Think you know what’s in your cinnamon? New research uncovers widespread adulteration and toxic risks, putting consumers’ health and trust on the line. Study: High rate of safety and fraud issues in commercially available cinnamon. Image Credit:...
National Alcohol Consumption Policy: Public consultation launched
Gozo News
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June 25, 2025
The National Alcohol Consumption Policy has been launched by the Government for public consultation. The document includes several proposals and is divided into three main parts. The Government said that the first priority is to reduce the...
TMID Editorial: Sitting on the fence
The Malta Independent
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Last Saturday, The Malta Independent reported that the Nationalist Party will only take a position on the government's proposal for a reform to introduce voluntary assisted euthanasia in Malta once the bill is tabled in Parliament - therefore...
The suspended doctor selling workers sick notes on demand
Yahoo Sports - Canada
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June 29, 2025
A suspended doctor is selling sick notes online to customers who want to go on holiday, take months off work for alleged Covid infection or care for an ill dog, The Telegraph can reveal. Asif Munaf, who was suspended from the medical register over...
At least 260 affordable housing units to be built, will be offered at 30% less than market price
The Malta Independent
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Kyle Patrick Camilleri Monday, 7 July 2025, 14:02 Last update: about 30 minutes ago In a collaboration between the Archdiocese and the Government of Malta, the Foundation for Affordable Housing (FAH) has announced that at least 260 housing units...
Letters to the editor – July 8, 2025
Times of Malta
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July 8, 2025
Usurping God’s powers Anthony Saliba of St Paul’s Bay writes: It’s no use telling me that our female partners have a right to abort their babes-in-womb. No use telling me that I can be assisted to shorten my life whenever there is a medical,...
Blessed Nazju Falzon: A saint in waiting – but do we still care?
The Malta Independent
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On 1 July, I attended mass at the Franciscan Church of St Mary of Jesus (Ta' Ġieżu) in Valletta which was commemorating the feast of Blessed Nazju Falzon. The atmosphere was reverent and familiar, yet it stirred something deeper. In today's...
Adrian Delia: The man on the final step of a redemption arc
The Malta Independent
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July 13, 2025
Adrian Delia is now one step away from completing his redemption arc, and coming full circle. Having been the PN's leader for three years already - a period which ended in a tumultuous and acrimonious divorce which threatened to destroy the party...
Updated: PN says patients given new ADHD medication with instructions in Croatian; PL replies
The Malta Independent
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July 3, 2025
The PN has said that patients are being given a new type of ADHD medication which is coming with instructions which are only in Croatian, meaning that patients are not able to become aware of what possible side effects they may face. “Patients...
He did it his way: memoirs of John Inguanez
Times of Malta
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July 6, 2025
Mogħdijiet. Ħajti fir-raħal li darba kien, fil-ġurnaliżmu, u Malta li baqgħet tinbidel… by John Inguanez, 2025 Recent months have seen the publication of two excellent accounts of journalism in Malta. The heirs of George Sammut, alias the original...
Phasing out single-use plastic: getting ahead of the curve
Times of Malta
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July 6, 2025
We have seen radical changes over the last decade in the field of waste management in Malta. Large infrastructural investments and new rules have changed the way we treat waste and how we dispose of it, resulting in diverting valuable waste...
Gozo and Labour’s 2022 manifesto - Three years on
The Malta Independent
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Emmanuel J. Galea Sunday, 6 July 2025, 08:08 Last update: about 2 days ago In March 2022, the Labour Party asked Gozitans to renew its mandate and offered a tailor-made proposition for the island. Prime Minister Robert Abela framed the "Malta...
If it smells like sewage and closes beaches, then it must be sewage
Times of Malta
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July 6, 2025
Summer is with us. Our children have put yet another scholastic year behind them and thousands of families look forward to spending some quality time on our beaches – a tradition as old and as Maltese as anything you can think of. However, many of...
Top identità officials step down
The Shift
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July 7, 2025
The two highest-ranking government officials responsible for identità (formerly Identity Malta) have stepped down with immediate effect, leaving industry insiders concerned about the reasons behind their sudden and coordinated departure. Sources...
Letters to the editor – July 7, 2025
Times of Malta
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July 7, 2025
A long, hot summer for PN Eddy Privitera of Naxxar writes: The Nationalist Party finds itself, once again, between a rock and a hard place after Bernard Grech called Roberta Metsola’s bluff and resigned as party and opposition leader. As we all...
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Doctor and ex-MP Josie Muscat to face charges over aiding inmate artificially inseminate partner
Malta Today
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Doctor and former MP Josie Muscat is expected to face criminal charges for allegedly assisting convicted murderer Erin Tanti carry out an artificial insemination procedure involving Tanti’s partner. Muscat, who founded and chairs Saint James...
Whatever the weather, blood donations are always needed
Gozo News
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June 22, 2025
This Tuesday, there will be a blood donation session in Gozo, all groups are needed, the National Blood Transfusion Service said. Summer is here and the weather is hot, but blood is still needed whatever the weather. The Service continues to...
Man dies after 5-storey fall at block of apartments in Gozo
Gozo News
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June 23, 2025
A 40-year old Indian man died on Sunday evening after falling from a height of approximately five storeys in Gozo. Police said that the incident was reported at around 8.30pm at a block of apartments in Triq Giorgio Borg Olivier, Victoria Initial...