Ivan Martin
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Tunnels, trains, and tarmac: Muscat details plans for infrastructure of the future
The Malta-Gozo tunnel will allow the government to introduce free buses linking the sister isle to the airport, Mater Dei Hospital and other strategic locations across the mainland, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Sunday. “We were going to...
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Watch: George Cross deed allowing medal onto national flag restored
Documents connected to the use of the George Cross on the Maltese flag, emblems and on official documents have been restored and will be put on public display. The documents include the George Cross deed, drawn by the then chief notary to the...
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Malta police go to Europol to discuss tuna racket probe
Police officers on Wednesday travelled to the Europol headquarters in the Hague to discuss developments in the tuna laundering racket, Times of Malta has learnt. Police sources said the main aim of the visit was to request assistance in the hope...
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Fisheries corruption claims ‘just tip of iceberg’
Phone intercepts between the head of the fisheries department and a Spanish tuna rancher linked to a multimillion-euro racket were “just the tip of the iceberg”, sources close to the case said on Tuesday. “This case is about to start unravelling...
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Malta's fishy business mapped out
Malta's tuna ranching industry has been thrust into the international spotlight following revelations of irregular payments to a senior official. According to leaked transcripts, fisheries chief Andreina Fenech Farrugia told rancher Jose...
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School security: Union says action being taken but is it too little, too late?
Measures to increase security in schools were finally being taken but only after two serious incidents were reported in the media, the Teachers’ Union said on Monday. Speaking during a meeting with the Nationalist Party, MUT President Marco...
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Reverse osmosis upgrades will save €400,000 a year in electricity costs
Upgrades to the reverse osmosis trains in Pembroke will reduce the amount of electricity required to run the plant, resulting in annual savings of €421,596. This is one of the projects being undertaken by the Water Services Corporation, which is...
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Watch: First two Marsa junction flyovers to be completed by summer
Foundation works on the first two of seven flyovers at the Marsa junction are under way and both should be up and running by this summer, Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg said on Monday. The first two flyovers will connect traffic flowing between...
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Valletta to Gozo in 30 minutes: what a metro in Malta could look like
The proposal for an underground train system for the island has captured the public imagination. Ivan Martin speaks with the architect behind the idea of a Malta Metro. Imagine entering a metro station beneath Valletta’s Triton Square and coming...
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Millions linked to international diesel smuggling operation discovered at Satabank
“Hundreds of millions of euros” in suspicious transactions linked to an international diesel smuggling racket were discovered at Paceville’s Satabank – considerably more than investigators had originally expected to uncover, The Sunday Times of...
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