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Charles Debono looks back at the crash of Pilot Officer Walter ‘Pips’ Cripps on April 26, 1942. On April 26, 1942, Air Officer Commanding Malta, Air Vice Marshal Hugh Lloyd was advised that an intercept of Luftwaffe Enigma traffic indicated that some units of Fliegerkorps II were preparing to leave Sicily. Meanwhile, an air raid warning was sounded at about 2.28pm, where a total of 55 Junkers Ju88s and 15 Junkers Ju87 Stukas appeared over Malta and attacked Ta’ Qali, Luqa, the Grand Harbo...

“That’s what you’re here for,” screamed the drill instructor at us 10 years ago as we stood to attention on the parade ground at Luqa Barracks and saluted the Maltese flag. Just a few weeks earlier, 85 individuals walked through the gates to embark on a life-changing experience; 10 years later most of us are still being of service to their country in various capacities and five have become officers in the Armed Forces of Malta, specialising in different areas. For the most part of my ca...

The scandal which surfaced the other week concerns another of Ian Borg’s arrogant bulldozing activities. This time, it is not the bulldozing of carob trees in Dingli or the destruction of agricultural land in Qormi, Burmarrad or Dingli, or even entering into private property in Tal-Balal, or destroying the idyllic valley of Wied Qirda or the country lane in Dwejra running parallel to the Victoria Lines This time, the story revolves around the granting of a lucrative contract to a student wh...

A man who went on a violent spree last October, vandalising 13 bus shelters in one night and racking up over €15,000 in damages, has been handed a 32-month prison sentence.   Solomon Abrham Tekelu, a 31-year old Eritrean national, had been arrested and charged following a tip-off about a man who was damaging a Birkirkara bus shelter in the very early hours of October 24.  When the suspect was tracked down shortly after, the police found a metal tool and pieces of glass in his bag. The man o...

It’s Monday, March 22: Infrastructure Malta reappears at dawn like a Panzer division outside Warsaw, tear through rubble and party walls and commences its

Ex-police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar was in contact with Edwin Brincat, known as il-Ġojja, on the eve of his testimony in the compilation of evidence against the alleged mastermind in the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder.  The former police chief called Brincat, a known confidant of middleman Melvin Theuma, on the night of 14 June 2020 at 7:55pm, and spent 14 minutes in conversation with him.  The next day, Cutajar testified in the compilation of evidence, after which the presidin...

A 22-year old man was seriously injured in a fight with another man on a construction site in Żebbuġ on Saturday.  Police said the man, a Gambian national, appeared to have been struck with a hard object after an argument with a 44-year old San Ġwann resident.  He was given first aid on site before being hospitalised for further treatment. In a separate incident on Saturday, police said, a 46-year old man was seriously injured on a construction site in Cospicua when the scaffolding he was ...

Cleaning the clean energy I cannot thank Matthew Bezzina enough for the comprehensive article ‘The Green Way Forward’ (March 29). May everybody have that view of things and act upon it. May religious people realise this is the greatest act of charity and moral responsibility of the moment because on it depends the future of the human race. But I would add one all important factor.  Is it vital that we electrify everything? What if our electricity itself is still heavily polluted? We must a...

Gozo-Malta air-ambulance service down for 4 hours Patient taken to MDH by ambulance Photo: Miguela Xuereb Due to a four-hour downtime of the Gozo-Malta air-ambulance service on Sunday 28 th March, a patient requiring urgent treatment at Mater Dei had to be transferred by ambulance. Contacted by Newsbook.com.mt, a Steward Healthcare spokesperson confirmed that both helicopters were out of service between 10.30am and 2.30pm. One of the air-ambulances was undergoing scheduled maintenance at the M...

Updated 1.36pm Hitmen who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia had started working on a plan to gun her down using an AK47 rifle two years before they eventually assa