The GRTU yesterday gave a directive to the owners of businesses telling them not to continue making individual agreements with commercial banks on the use of credit cards....

A Malta Transport Authority examiner was acquitted of accepting bribes during, and before May 2006 after the prosecution failed to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that he was guilty. ...

The Union Haddiema Maghqudin’s Public Entities Section has registered an industrial dispute with the Association of Local Councils over the association’s failure to accept to implement family friendly ...

A delivery man was held at gun point, tied up and thrown in the back of his van while 25 boxes of cigarettes were transferred from one vehicle to another, a police inspector told a court yesterday....

The punishment of a man who breached bail conditions was changed by an appeals court after it found that he breached them once, and not on a continuous basis, as the original punishment had refelcted....

Labour leader Alfred Sant yesterday went round the Birkirkara open air market where, he said, he could see a slower rhythm of trade because family purchasing power had been weakened because of higher prices. ...

The foreign ministry is closely following the case involving cargo bound for Malta which was held by the Italian authorities, the Department of Information said. It did not say why the cargo was prevented from reaching Malta....

The stock of motor vehicles rose by 2,388 in the third quarter of 2007, to stand at 285,353....

The Nationalist Party’s Solidarjeta Haddiema called on the Labour Party to apologise to medical employees and patients for its attacks against them simply to score political points....

The Malta Union of Teachers has registered an industrial dispute with the Institute of Tourism Studies because of the exaggerated delay taken to conclude the institute’s collective agreement. ...