Keith Schembri pleads not guilty to money laundering, fraud, corruption & more

Mar 20 2021

Former Chief of Staff for the Office of the Prime Minister Keith Schembri has been denied bail after pleading not guilty to charges of money laundering, corruption, criminal conspiracy, false testimony and fraud.

Just extraordinary. For years, @keithaschembri accused my mother of using forged documents to implicate him in corruption cases.

Schembri has just been charged with: corruption, fraud, false testimony, criminal association, and … forgery.https://t.co/wNtkjCQVD2

— Paul Caruana Galizia (@pcaruanagalizia) March 20, 2021

Schembri was charged with 10 other including his father Alfio, Kasco Group CEO Malcolm Scerri and accountant Robert Zammit on charges of money laundering and criminal conspiracy.

Illum huwa pass żgħir ieħor biex issir ġustizzja fuq każ li kien inkixef minn Daphne Caruana Galizia u li nbdiet…

Posted by Bernard Grech on Saturday, 20 March 2021

The court of Malta has ordered that the individuals’ assets be frozen whilst denying bail with concerns of potential tampering of evidence or attempts to flee the country.

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210 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 230 recoveries

67 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 323 recoveries

Mar 20 2021

Malta has registered 210 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 3,734 swab tests, while 230 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Friday 19th March 2021, 140,331 vaccine doses were administered of which 43,267 were 2nd doses.

To date, Malta has registered 27,904 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 24,662 have recovered, 369 died and 2,873 are still active.

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Blonde-haired Billie Eilish broke an Instagram record

Mar 20 2021

Blonde Billie Eilish is the hairdo change-up the world didn’t know it needed and the singing sensation’s switch from her signature black and green do to gorgeous blonde locks broke an Instagram world record doing it.

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The singer’s post showcasing her new look broke the record for the fastest time to receive one million likes on a single post, breaking Selena Gomez’s record from 2018.

What’s more is that the snap has garnered over 20 million likes so far and stands in the top 10 most liked Instagram posts of all time, only a few days after the 19-year-old took home a couple of Grammy awards.

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Temperatures as low as 6°C expected on Tuesday

Mar 20 2021

As Spring is finally with us and the Maltese Islands begin to experience glimpses of the archipelago’s summer weather, March may still endure a few days of colder weather, with temperatures expected to drop as low as 6°C on Tuesday.

Timmaginaw Marzu, temperatura matul l jum titla biss 13°C u filgħaxija tinżel 6°C. Dan kullu ser jiġri nhar it-Tlieta li…

Posted by Aġġornament tat-temp on Friday, 19 March 2021

Facebook Page ‘Aġġornament tat-temp’ forecasts that temperatures are expected to go as high as 13°C during the day and hit the 6°C mark during night time.

Meanwhile, isolated showers are forecasted today with heavy winds from the East expected later tonight.

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