Education Minister Louis Galea yesterday launched the adult courses for the scholastic year 2007-8, together with courses for the Centru tat-Taghlim tul il-Hajja and the schools of arts, music and drama....

The Malta Transport Authority has notified that due to casting work being carried out on Manwel Dimech Bridge, access through the tunnels and the bridge will not be permitted between 8pm of Monday, 3 September and noon of Tuesday, 4 September....

Senior vice-president of the Malta Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Norman Aquilina has been appointed a member of the Business Chamber of the European Union’s Enterprise Policy Group (EPG)....

On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Great Siege Dead – 7 September – Archbishop Mgr Paul Cremona OP will celebrate a Mass at St John’s co-Cathedral at 8.30am, ...

The shortfall between recurrent revenue and total expenditure for the first seven months of 2007 amounts to Lm89.7 million, the National Statistics Office reported yesterday....

The government’s estimated deficit may be over by Lm4 million (EUR9.31 million), but the EU has an outstanding bill of Lm6 million (EUR13.98 million) with Malta, said Finance Parliamentary Secretary Tonio Fenech yesterday....

UHM president Gaetano Tanti, and secretary-general Gejtu Vella spoke yesterday about the summer festival the UHM is holding at Ta’ Fra Ben in Qawra today and tomorrow....

Work on Triq it-Tigrija in Marsa will have cost some Lm90,000 and will be completed within two weeks, said Roads Minister Jesmond Mugliett. It is one of over 450 residential streets being relaid at a cost of over Lm9 million....

A customs officer told a court yesterday that some 1,100 steroid tablets that a Libyan national allegedly attempted to import irregularly last week, were considered to be “restricted medicines”, and, ...

A 41-year-old was fined Lm500 (EUR1,165) after he pleaded guilty to insulting and threatening a police sergeant and other police officers on Thursday afternoon....