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All remaining renovation works in the Ta Qali Crafts Village are to start in June and works will be completed by the end of this year, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri has announced.
He said the project, which has been promised over the past 30 years, is at its final advanced stage.
“We are working for a high standard craft village, which will be full of life, encourage more economic activity and showcase the work of these artisans,” the minister said, on a visit to the site.
Only 19 of the 70 artisanal workshops are currently completed and are operating. Eight workshops are being constructed.
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Yorgen Fenech told Keith Schembri that he had “no other way” other than killing Daphne Caruana Galizia, self-confessed middleman Melvin Theuma testified in court on Wednesday.
Theuma said Fenech had told him of that conversation with Schembri after the former chief of staff at the Office of the Prime Minister had “gone cold” after learning what the renowned businessman had done.
“Yorgen told me that he told him that he (Fenech) had reason to worry, because he was the mastermind,” Theuma testified.
In three hours of testimony, a hoarse and frail Theuma recounted some of the conversations he had with Fenech, who stands accused of complicity in Caruana Galizia’s murder.