US Navy ‘wanted To kill Mintoff’
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In 1976, two years after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger threatened then-Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro about forming a coalition with the Communists, right-wing hardliner Senator ‘Scoop’ Jackson, on a trip to ...
Minister Reported ‘livid’ as his 7% target revealed
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Maltastar.com reported yesterday that Tourism Minister Francis Zammit Dimech was livid when Malta Tourism Authority’s CEO David Mifsud revealed the minister’s target to boost tourist arrivals in 2007 by seven per cent, or a total of 78,000 tourists. ...
‘Erika’: Decisive stage tomorrow
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 20 years ago
Malta Independent
Four months after the beginning of the long court procedure regarding the shipwreck of the tanker Erika, which was flying the Maltese flag, a decisive stage will be reached tomorrow when the two public prosecutors,...
Football Nurseries and their children
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Mario Pisani devoted a whole programme on Smash TV to it, Dr Hugh Peralta, who is in charge of the Floriana FC Nursery, wrote a three-page letter and at 2am yesterday, Joe Micallef, the general secretary of the ...
Unwelcomeeven When dead
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 20 years ago
Malta Independent
It was claimed yesterday that the Maltese authorities refused permission to a French naval ship to land the bodies of 21 illegal immigrants found floating in the sea off Malta in a state of advanced decomposition in Malta. ...
Minimum Wage in Malta ‘failed to keep up with inflation’
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A study has shown that Malta is one of five European countries where increases in the minimum wage have failed to keep up with inflation. The other countries are Latvia, Poland, Portugal and, surprisingly, France....
Young Doctor crushed to death
Sunday, 3 June 2007, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A 38-year-old doctor from Qormi died tragically yesterday morning when a ceiling of the Corinthia Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala. – which closed earlier this year – collapsed, killing him on the spot. The incident took place at around 9.30am....