Employees with a number of local councils have joined the General Workers’ Union, which has grouped them in its section for professional, financial and services employees. ....

Expenditure on Social Security benefits rose by 5.7 per cent during the first half of 2007, driven mainly by outlays on retirement pensions....

A man was conditionally discharged for three months after pleading guilty to voluntarily damaging a woman’s car on 18 July this year in Valletta. ...

HSBC Group has retained its grip on the title of Best Factor – one of the prestigious Trade Finance Awards for Excellence 2007. This year’s award is an unprecedented fifth in succession for HSBC, pushing ...

Two foreigners were arrested late on Thursday night after they were found in possession of drugs, according to the police. The men, a Sudanese and a Turkish man, both aged 20, were found in possession ...

A man who is facing extradition proceedings has filed an appeal against the judgement handed down by the First Hall of the Civil Court in its constitutional jurisdiction, which had ruled that there were other ...

An ambulance driver was charged yesterday with manufacturing pyrotechnic items without a licence in a farmhouse in Gharghur. ...

Resources and Infrastruc-ture Minister Ninu Zammit filed libel suits against Opposition Leader Alfred Sant, General Workers’ Union daily newspaper l-orizzont and the editor of Labour Party media One News ...

Four Russian nationals, three of whom are law students and the fourth a manager at a Russian university, were conditionally discharged for a year yesterday after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine. ...

In view of student needs arising out of learning, the European Institute of Education (EIE) has reached a collaboration agreement with Advanced Telecommuni-cation Systems Ltd (ATS). ...