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Exclusive: November migrants’ shipwreck tragedy

“Keep at a distance” from boat people, rescuers told

Army rescuers were given orders to “keep at a distance” from a boat carrying 200 migrants in gale force winds last November, hours before 9 of them drowned and at least 20 went missing in a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily, MaltaToday can reveal.

TOP NEWS

Malta still with highest number of churchgoers in Europe

Probe into newborn not registered under name of biological parents

OTHER NEWS

Here’s the emergence of a new “social case”

Government’s non scientific ‘survey’ backs fish farms – only 132 answer

Lija white dust to persist unless new law enacted

Portomaso acquire full ownership of land for Lm800,000

Dinosaurs? It’s all in the Bible

Job secure for university employee working for PN travel agency

Arson attacks continue

The grass has never been greener

For & Against: Legalised brothels

INTERVIEW

Mind the drip!
With St Luke’s Hospital’s corridors crammed with extra beds and wards overcrowded with social cases, Health Minister Louis Deguara promises everything will be solved when Mater Dei will open its doors in July next year. Only that there will be less beds in the new hospital and more elderly to take care of by Karl Schembri

THIS WEEK

Waiting for Columbus
Gilbert Calleja talks to artist Patrick Fenech about his current exhibition

Economy

Equities rebound strongly

Market stuck in familiar ranges

Insurance brokers merge

Property revaluation improves Gasan’s results

Surcharge investigation: Government waiting for MRA audit

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