The state funeral of ex-Prime Minister Dom Mintoff will take place next Saturday, August 25  at St John’s Co-Cathedral at 10.30h. Mass will be celebrated by Archbishop Pawlu Cremona.

Dom Mintoff will be exposed to the public for the last time at the President’s Palace in Valletta on Friday, from 09.00h to 13.00h and from 16.00h to 19.00h, as well as on Saturday morning from 07.30h to 09.30h.

The Government has declared Friday, August 24 and Saturday, August 25 days of bereavement.

More details will be divulged later on.