In February 2005, the Retail Prices Index went up by 0.60 per cent to 105.33 from 104.70 in the previous month, the National Statistics Office said yesterday....

Rural Affairs and Environment Minister George Pullicino yesterday signed a new sponsorship agreement between HSBC and WasteServ Malta Limited through which the bank will sponsor the Xummiemu campaign for the next two years. ...

The Malta Tourism Authority’s destination website www.visitmalta.com has been listed as the second-best website in a survey carried out by the Swiss travel magazine Travel Tip....

At the recent Istanbul Inter-national Gastronomy Festival 2005 held last month, Coastline Hotel pastry chef Dominic Zahra achieved outstanding results ....

Palio’s Restaurant was recently the host to some 80 children who spent an entire morning in chef’s hats....

Island Caterers Ltd, the catering arm of the Island Hotels Group, is currently offering its prospective wedding clients at Razzett l-Abjad the venue free of charge for all remaining dates in 2005 and 2006. ...

Danone is challenging consumers to drink Actimel every day for two weeks to discover its benefits – or get their money back! ...

The Victoria Hotel has this year chosen to award Robert Arrigo & Sons Ltd with the Best Performing Travel Agent Award for the services rendered to the hotel during the year 2004. ...

Kellogg UK organised its annual commercial conference in Malta on 24 and 25 February. ...

As from 1 April 2005, banks in Malta shall quote and publish the exchange rate of the Maltese lira against the euro solely in terms of units of Maltese lira per one euro....