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Teen activist drops hate speech charge against online trolls after receiving an apology PN activist Eve Borg Bonello dropped criminal charges against two people who she reported for hate speech over offensive Facebook content 5 March 2021, 2:34pm by Matthew Agius Teenage PN activist Eve Borg Bonello has dropped criminal charges against two people she had reported to the police for hate speech over offensive Facebook posts. Borg Bonello had faced a backlash on the internet after she captioned a...

A 17-year-old activist has dropped charges against two people who threatened her online after they apologised in court. Eve Borg Bonello, activist and president of the PNs youth wing, Team Start, said she faced threats of death and sexual violence after she spoke up at protest calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat in 2019. She was 16 at the time.  Soon after the speech, during the political crisis sparked by developments in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case, she sai...

The banking and financial authorities are urging HSBC to reconsider the introduction of a new monthly fee which the Consumers Association believes could impact low earners and pensioners. The Central Bank of Malta and the Malta Financial Services Authority have kicked off discussions with HSBC over the charge for banking services which it is planning on introducing in April. Times of Malta reported that the bank was notifying consumers whether they will have to bear the burden of the €5 month...

Updated with HSBC, BOV and APS Bank comments HSBC customers who do not receive their pension or wage directly in their account could be charged up to €60 a year, as the bank introduces a monthly fee, the consumer association has warned. The bank has started notifying consumers whether they will have to bear the burden of a new €5 monthly fee as from April. This fee partially covers the cost of providing a service, which has “increased significantly” as a result of a change in the operat...

What is opposition leader Bernard Grech doing dancing on TikTok, a social media platform hugely popular with the young and best known for people moving to catchy music? The Nationalist Party set up a TikTok account last month and its first video shows Grech taking part in a ‘dance’ alongside young party members. The dancers choose between two options, shifting to one side to make their choice: ‘personal greed’ or ‘common good’; ‘change or status quo’ and, at the end, PL or PN. G...