Difference between revisions of "News in 2011"

Revision as of 18:04, 29 December 2011

Day by day Malta news updates featuring the most prominent news item of the day as featured on the MaltaMedia Online News service during 2011.

Links indicating Video in the title contain a news clip in Maltese, as it appeared on television that day on Favourite Channel.

January
01 22 arrested for drug possesion on NYE 02 Former MP Mario Felice passes away 05 Libyan jailed for 8 years for drugs trafficking 11 Malta best place to live, survey says 11 12-year jail term for importing drugs 12 Video: Anti-Divorce movement launched 12 Video: 18-year-old dies after tray sliding incident 14 Hundreds attend manifestation against living costs 15 Sliema councillors arrested for questioning 19 Ministers to refund part of honoraria 20 Former PN minister passes away 21 Bishop Gerada passes away 21 Census to be taken this year 24 EP President in Malta for official visit 27 Man shot in Hamrun cafeteria 29 Concern on IVF increase as two babies die at NPICU 31 Woman’s corpse found at Xemxija

February
01 Video: Mother arraigned for murder of daughter 04 Video: New director at Malta-based European Asylum Support Office 05 Video: Police investigating Transport Malta’s bomb explosion 07 Woman critically injured after being stabbed 09 Video: Gaddafi plans Malta visit in June 10 Divorce bill to be approved in parliament before Referendum 11 Video: JPO urges PN to change divorce stance 12 PN decides against divorce 13 Video: Glen Vella to represent Malta at Eurovision 2011 18 Gale force winds cause havoc 18 Video: PM proposes 28th May for divorce referendum 19 Dr Tonio Borg holds meeting with new Tunisian Government 19 Video: Chris Said proposes Malta-Gozo tunnel 21 Libyan military planes land in Malta 26 Thousands of evacuees from Libya arrive in Malta 27 23 Maltese want to stay in Libya, Malta implements UN sanctions 27 Maltese Ambassador for Tripoli returns to Malta

March
01 EU praises Malta for ‘heroic performance' 04 Bomb threats at BOV branches 05 Partial lifting of suspension of EU programmes 08 Changes to be carried in Air Malta restructuring report 11 PM refuse to trade Mirages with freedom of civilians 11 Maltese Embassy to contact Maltese living in Japan 12 Malta will remain militarily neutral- Gonzi 14 Ir-Realta editor, writer acquitted 16 Cliff Richard celebrates 53rd anniversary in Malta 16 Video: Parliament approves divorce motion 18 Maltese dies tragically in UK accident 22 Six Libyan demonstrators arrested 29 20-year jail term for attempted murder

April
01 Illegal Armier buildings demolished 06 UPDATED: 150 missing as migrant boat capsizes 07 Former Minister Freddie Micallef died 08 171 immigrants brought to Malta after Italy denies entry 09 Bishop Grech denounces indifference to migrants deaths 12 AFM rescues 116 migrants 13 29-year-jail term for murder 19 Video: Yes vote down in divorce referendum poll 21 Maltapost explains ‘thrown away’ voting documents 23 Over 800 illegal hunting and trapping incidences 24 Updated: Another two tremors felt around Malta 25 Video: Anti-divorce campaign launched 26 Video: New buses arrive in Malta 27 Video: Divorce Movement head banned from Ecclesiastical Tribunal 28 BirdLife calls for spring hunting season to close 30 FKNK suspends hunters’ membership for illegal shooting

May
02 Video: City Gate closed for first time in 50 years 04 Author Frans Sammut passes away 05 Woman critically injured in stabbing incident 10 Video: Malta fails to qualify for Eurovision 2011 final 11 Former Minister’s secretary admits bribery 11 Video: PM in positive meeting with David Cameron 13 Video: EU countries pledge to take 323 migrants from Malta 13 Firework factory owner charged with involuntary homicide 14 Two new groups set up during Referendum race 18 Man jailed for having almost 1kg of cannabis 19 320 refugees and migrants from Libya rescued 21 Bishops say referendum is actually one about marriage 23 Competition & Consumer Affairs Authority set up 26 Man and woman die in separate accidents 28 Voting in divorce referendum starts 28 Man killed in road accident in Floriana 29 YES wins divorce referendum 29 Video: PM insists people’s will to be respected

June
01 Malta recognises Libyan Transitional Council as official interlocutor 06 Star the dog dies 07 Father and son charged with attempted murder 09 Selmun Palace Hotel employees lose their jobs 15 Portuguese man admits cocaine trafficking 20 First European Agency based in Malta opens 22 Zebbug man dies in Msida car crash 23 Video: Arriva insists bus preparations on time 25 Video: Malta opposes 20-week maternity leave 26 Video: Air Malta to shed 511 employees 27 Video: Air Malta pilots threaten to strike 29 Malta placed on “watch list” for human trafficking

July
01 [http://www.maltamediaonline.com/?p=37378 40,000 attend Malta Isle of MTV ] 02 Arriva bus drivers urged to report to work 03 Mary Fenech Adami critical after heart attack 04 Video: Second problematic day for Arriva 04 Parliament starts debating divorce bill 08 Mary Fenech Adami passes away at 77 11 Malta’s population on the rise 11 31-year-old woman stabbed in Ta’ Xbiex 12 Couple found dead in separate locations 15 Sliema’s deputy mayor resigns from PN 21 Eritrean man dies after saving tourist from drowning 25 Divorce bill approved in parliament 27 14-year-old dies after fall 29 EP President in Malta for official visit

August
01 25 migrants die on boat 01 Launching of pre-budget document 02 Two men died and a third critical in separate accidents 03 Priest jailed for St Joseph home abuses 12 Archbishop Cremona apologises to sex abuse victims 13 Priests file appeal against sex abuse sentence 14 Malta refuses entry to 334 migrants 17 19 injured in immigrants’ riot 23 Malta recognises transitional council of Libya 27 Gaddafi stripped of his honours

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