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The Mystery of the Hypogeum

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The following excerpt, taken from an obscure webpage favoured by the searchers of the esoteric, speaks about the mysteries of the Hypogeum in Malta. We offer this as an interesting provocation, in the mode of the Von Daniken books, exhorting those wh...

Crucial Week for Airmalta

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

This will be a crucial week for Air Malta as its four unions debate the Company Pact drafted by the government after intense negotiations with the unions over the past weeks. The four unions are: the General Workers Union, the pilots’, the engineers’...

‘My Experience is my asset’

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Experience and consis-tency are the hallmarks of Michael Falzon’s bid for the European Parliament. Interview by Gerald Fenech....

Understanding Malta In the context of Europe

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

HANS-GERT POETTERING, chairman of the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament, spares five minutes from his busy schedule to talk to...

MHRA Telephone survey reveals increase in April occupancy

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 23 years ago Malta Independent

A telephone survey conducted by the MHRA across its membership base this past week has revealed that occupancies across its hotel members during the month of April have fared better than the corresponding period last year....

Bahrija ‘in The Middle Ages’

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

A reader has written in to complain about the state of affairs in the remote countryside hamlet of Bahrija, where it seems that, despite Malta’s imminent accession to the European Union, even the basic infrastructure necessary for survival is at “at ...

Eritrean, Ethiopian Illegal immigrants ‘in good health’

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The 39 illegal immigrants who landed in Malta late on Friday evening are all in good health, police said yesterday. The 34 men, three women and two children are being kept at the Hal Safi AFM barracks....

Butler Not likely to be extradited to Italy any time soon

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Charles Butler, the man who was arrested in the United Kingdom following an international arrest warrant issued by the Ragusa Courts in connection with the trafficking of illegal immigrants from Malta to Sicily, is not likely to be extradited to Ital...

Speed Rated as the leading killer on the roads

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Road traffic injuries kill as many as 350 people a day – over 127,000 every year in the World Health Organisation European Region. According to WHO, the leading cause of death is speed....

Spanish ‘concrete Jungles’ put off British and Maltese tourists

Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

British tourists – traditionally one of the mainstays of the local tourism market – are becoming increasingly more selective when choosing their holiday destination. A report in The London Times earlier last week indicated that although 2004 is expec...

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