The Malta Labour Party’s Agriculture and Fisheries spokesman Noel Farrugia has called for the resignation of Rural Affairs and Environment Minister George Pullicino...

The owner of a bar in Paceville was fined Lm250 yesterday and ordered to pay Lm644.20 in overdue wages after he was found guilty of failing to pay one of his employees double time when she worked on Sundays and public holidays....

Two men were charged yesterday with possessing a number of fake DVDs and DVD sleeves on Valletta market on 18 May this year. ...

A woman who married her husband while he was in jail awaiting trial for importing 10,000 ecstasy pills – a crime that carries a maximum punishment of life behind bars – yesterday told a court she loved her husband and was “willing to stand by him”. ...

A 17-year-old from Gudja was jailed for one month and fined Lm100 yesterday after pleading guilty to possessing and trafficking cannabis resin on 8 June 2003 and the preceding four months. ...

A woman from St Paul’s Bay was charged yesterday with defrauding her grandparents in July this year. ...

A man was jailed for one month, suspended for a year, yesterday, after he pleaded guilty to complicity in insurance fraud more than four years ago. ...

In 2005, 8,437 people were working on a voluntary basis in social welfare-oriented non-profit organisations (NPOs), accounting for 84 per cent of total workers, according to National Statistics Office figures released yesterday....

Administrative labour market data indicate that in July 2006, the gainfully occupied population increased by 424 people...

Labour MEP Joseph Muscat (right) was awarded the prize for Outstanding Young Person of the Year by the Junior Chamber International (Malta) yesterday, for political work carried out in 2006....