The Health Division has been dodging its responsibilities towards deaf students for these past two years, the Deaf People Association (Malta) said in a statement yesterday.The division has failed to supply these students with hearing aids for over ...

A 56-year-old English woman was airlifted to hospital yesterday by the Armed Forces of Malta after she was hit by a vehicle on Comino....

In July 2004, there were 8,131 unemployed people registering for work. Of these, 6,531 were males and 1,600 were females, figures released yesterday by the National Statistics Office showed.The number of registered unemployed increased by 189 over ...

Two men and a woman were injured yesterday morning after they were involved in two separate accidents in l-Iklin and Rabat. The first accident happened at about 10am, when a 34-year-old woman from Gudja was driving her Ford Fiesta through the road ...

An infrastructural project to service the Mriehel and Mosta industrial estates is about to get underway in the coming days.The Department of Information issued a press release to say that after the necessary administration work is completed, a call...

The chairmen and chief executive officers and other top officials of a number of government entities had a meeting with Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi yesterday during which they were told to cut costs and be more accountable in their operations. Du...

The government could propose the elimination of the half-days system in use in government bodies and departments during summer, sources have told The Malta Independent. The proposal may be tabled during discussions for the next collective agreement, ...

Thousands of people have used the Millennium Chapel over the past three-and-half-years, project founder and director Fr Hilary Tagliaferro said yesterday.Fr Hilary was speaking at a press conference in which the Millennium Chapel Foundation...

The Stella Maris Parish Church has carried out important restoration works on the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Grace (Madonna tal-Grazzja) in High Street, Sliema. This project, costing Lm7,000, was financed by the Malta Environment and Planning Autho...

In the course of globalisation, borderlines of time and space seem to disappear. However, entering a foreign country always means moving into an unknown territory. Another culture, mentality, society, as well as a different economic, political and l...