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The compilation of evidence against an elderly man accused of shooting his neighbour in the face continues with the court hearing the victim’s testimony
Today's letters by Times of Malta readers
There was a significant drop in antibiotic use in Malta during the first year of the pandemic, new analysis has found. European Union figures show an almost 20
‘Disagreeing to agree’ on cannabis reform Legal or not, buyers will still be forced to purchase their cannabis from the (illegal) black market. And this will only play into the hands of drug traffickers: whose crime, by way of contrast, is not being ‘decriminalised’ at all Raphael Vassallo 22 April 2021, 7:10am I imagine you’ve all heard the expression, ‘let’s agree to disagree’. And I also imagine that ‘hearing’ that expression – or even possibly using it yourselves – is about as close as you’ve ever come to actually seeing it enacted in practice. For let’s face ...
Perhaps one of the best-known and very popular episodes of the Maltese islands’ medieval history relates how the populace heroically rose against their local lord, Don Gonsalvo de Monroy (or Monroi), in 1426-27. A sizeable number of local historians have devoted ample space to this episode but all the authors were at a loss when they tried to explain why the Maltese revolted against Monroy but not against his predecessor, Don Antonio de Cardona. The well-known recounted story ran thus: in January 1420, King Alfonso I of Sicily (and V of Aragon), known as The Magnanimous, born in 1396 and wh...