October 16, 2024 If you run a Facebook page, you have most likely received a message stating that unless you take the necessary action your page will be deleted. These messages are fake. Sometimes, this is obvious – the page/profile by which the message was sent might have an obscure name, or its photo might […]
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October 16, 2024 The government claims it is on track to fulfil one of its key electoral promises to rebuild all of Malta’s roads, with Transport Minister Chris Bonett recently telling parliament that the project is “95% complete”. But despite this, the government has turned down repeated requests to provide Times of Malta with a list
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September 6, 2024 With the tourist season in full swing, the debate over the type of tourists arriving in Malta, and their impact on Malta’s economy, has once again hit the front pages. Tony Zahra, the president of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association, one of Malta’s main tourism lobby groups, was the first to
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August 30, 2024 Have you recently received an “urgent” WhatsApp message from your friend asking you to send them a code? That ‘friend’ is no friend at all but a scammer trying to worm their way into kicking you out of your WhatsApp account. Police have urged the public to take more care as reports of WhatsApp
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August 16, 2024 Just after Nicolette Ghirxi was found fatally stabbed in her Swatar home in the early hours of Monday 12 August, police were locked in a dangerous showdown with her ex-partner, Edward Johnston, on the pitch-dark St Julians’ shoreline. Johnston is believed to have murdered Ghirxi earlier in the night. The negotiation ended in
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August 2, 2024 After a week-long to-and-fro with Cabinet, Edward Scicluna agreed to temporarily step aside from his role at the helm of Malta’s Central Bank on Tuesday evening. Scicluna has served as the Central Bank’s governor since 2021, but has faced calls to step down from the role ever since he was criminally charged
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August 1, 2024 Whether or not you watched the Paris Olympics opening ceremony last week, you undoubtedly know about the controversy made out of one particular moment. People the world over have described the act as a ‘mockery’ of Christianity. But there is more to the picture than meets the eye. The segment in question
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July 31, 2024 As the court cases in connection to the fraudulent privatisation of three of Malta’s state hospitals continue, some locals believe another hospital-related line has been crossed. This time, though, the issue is the supposed removal of crucifixes from wards. On Sunday 28 July, several Facebook users shared posts claiming that Mater Dei
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July 31, 2024 With the dust settling on this year’s local council elections, held on 8th June, many raised renewed questions over the impact that gender quotas are having on Maltese politics. A controversial gender quota mechanism which came into force in the 2022 general elections brought about the election of 12 women to Malta’s parliament. The
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July 30, 2024 It’s a trick as old as time, one common among Shakepeare’s Iagos, modern day demagogues, and cyber scammers: deception is most effective when it plays upon emotion. Sympathy scams are a perfect example. These typically take the form of hoax social media posts purporting to be about something that tends to play
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