He worked as a banker in the Unicredit Group and has been a freelance journalist since 1977 He graduated in 2016 in Multimedia communication at the Kore University of Enna the youth organization of the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and at the age of twenty he became a municipal councilor in Militello He has held the same position since 1980 in Gravina di Catania and since 1983 in Castel di Iudica the municipality where he holds the position of deputy mayor In 1987 he was elected provincial secretary of the MSI in Catania and then became provincial councilor from 1990 to 1993 and president of the province from 1994 to 2003 since 2011 he has been undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor in the government headed by Silvio Berlusconi On 5 November 2017 he was elected president of the Sicily Region at the helm of a center-right coalition In the last political elections of 25 September he was elected to the Senate in the single-member constituency of Catania and on 13 October he left the presidency of the Region to his successor In the Meloni government he was designated minister for maritime policies and for the south Wanted in RomeMagazine The Sicilian city of Catania has been devastated by floods resulting in the deaths of at least two people as the north-east area of the Italian island continues to be battered by violent storms Dramatic footage showed water surging through Catania with cars submerged in streets that resembled rapids On Tuesday a 53-year-old man drowned in floods in the nearby town of Gravina di Catania after getting swept away in the waters when he out of his car He was the second victim of the storms after a 67-year-old man drowned in Scordia Police are still searching for the man's 61-year-old wife who was also swept away by the floods — Myrta Merlino (@myrtamerlino) October 26, 2021 Italy's civil protection agency has issued its highest rossa weather alert for parts of Sicily and neighbouring Calabria warning of potential loss of life and damage to property Catania mayor Salvo Pogliese ordered the closure of the city's schools on Wednesday after shutting all businesses except pharmacies until midnight on Tuesday Catania saw the average amount of rain that falls in an entire year" The mayor urged people to only leave their homes for absolute necessity and to restrict their movements "because the intensity and violence of the rains could increase at any moment." — Wanted in Rome (@wantedinrome) October 26, 2021 The paediatric emergency ward at the Garibaldi hospital in Catania was under water on Tuesday with the situation in the city aggravated by an electrical blackout for several hours A section of the main road between Catania and Messina was reportedly closed on Tuesday due to a landslide with rail services also affected in the north-east region The current severe weather in the south could turn into a rare Mediterranean cyclone known as a Medicane by Thursday ahead of Italy's All Saints' holiday weekend according to Italian weather forecast website Il Meteo Firefighters have carried out hundreds of emergency operations in Sicily and Calabria "The emergency situation is widespread and extremely critical and it does not seem to be improving," a fire service spokesperson told Reuters news agency the Italian farmers' association Coldiretti says the storms have done "incalculable" damage to crops submerging vegetable farms and damaging the olive harvest in the affected regions The extreme weather comes just over two months after Italy recorded temperatures of 48.8 degrees Celsius in the south-eastern Sicilian province of Siracusa during a sweltering heatwave in August Wanted in Rome ™ is member of the Wanted World Wide Ltd network.Click here to find out more about our Network or Follow us on social networks © 2025 / 2026 Wanted World Wide LTD Network A birthday turns into a family drama with one dead and one injured A birthday party in San Gregorio di Catania turned into an unexpected drama when a 62-year-old businessman shot and killed his 23-year-old son The incident occurred shortly before midnight during a brawl involving several young people present at the celebration the man fired shots in the air to intimidate those present When his son and some friends tried to disarm him while another bullet wounded a friend of his son in the heel was transported to the Cannizzaro Hospital in Catania The authorities are investigating the incident and have already arrested the entrepreneur The investigators of the Gravina di Catania company have collected testimonies from several people present at the party trying to reconstruct the details of the evening It is assumed that the man was disturbed by the noise of the party and that but the entrepreneur did not have authorization to carry it with him highlighting the risks associated with the use of weapons and the family dynamics that can lead to violence The tragedy has raised questions about security and the management of conflict situations especially in festive contexts where tensions can easily escalate Notizie.it is a newspaper registered with the Court of Milan n.68 on 01/03/2018 Impara come descrivere lo scopo dell'immagine (si apre in una nuova scheda) Lascia vuoto se l'immagine è puramente decorativa A moderate magnitude 4.2 earthquake occurred in the Ionian Sea near the coast of Sicily,  Italy The quake had a very shallow depth of 30 km (18 mi) and was felt widely in the area The shallow depth of the quake caused it to be felt more strongly near the epicenter than a deeper quake of similar magnitude would.