The Birkirkara local council is yet another council in this election which has ended up deadlocked due to an independent candidate getting elected. Kaylocke Buhagiar won 999 votes to get elected
Court is a strange beat to cover, where no two days are the same and where the crucially important mingles freely with the mind-numbingly tedious and the outright fascinating - often simultaneously. This makes summing up a year’s worth of stories—a rough total of about 300 in 2023 — quite the task. Senior court reporter MATTHEW AGIUS looks back at some of the more salient court cases.