The Housing Authority yesterday announced a new scheme to give first home buyers grants for the construction, completion and rehabilitation of housing units....

Only 26.4 per cent of the wage increases bus drivers are demanding are justified, sources close to the government told The Malta Independent yesterday....

Champions’ League matches will continue to be broadcast live on TVM, but the schedule for the coming season will have to be restructured to make room for the airtime commitments that come with the screening of the football games....

The Malta Stock Exchange council called for more cooperation among national institutions with the aim of encouraging new investment....

During the 50-hour sailing marathon held last weekend, the Vikings Sailing Club raised Lm1,300 for the Muscular Dystrophy Group....

If the eco-tax is unjustly imposed on existing stocks, the Chamber for Small Businesses and Enterprises (GRTU) will be forced to ask its members not to pay it and not to implement it....

International credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) confirmed its long- and short-term ‘A/A-1’ foreign currency sovereign credit ratings for Malta yesterday....

The Malta Independent employees were taken by surprise when they were leaving their office for their break yesterday: someone had placed two ‘No parking and no waiting’ signs practically in the middle of the road....

Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party is calling on Mepa and other competent authorities to ensure that all beaches are fully accessible to all bathers and not just to those who are willing to pay for sunbed facilities....

Rumours that a new PABX system being installed at the Education Department as another cost-cutting exercise by the government were immediately quashed – but not before they had spread like wildfire....