Air Malta denied press reports that it was offering any golden handshakes or voluntary redundancy scheme to the employees of Tigne Development Co. Ltd...

It is hoped that the 74 per cent drop in the number of cruise passengers registered in January – 4,157 fewer passengers when compared to January last year – would transform itself into hefty increases for 2007 to be a better year than 2006...

The cooperation and goodwill shown by Labour Party Floriana councillors enabled the council to carry out 75 per cent of the work it had promised three years ago, Labour leader Alfred Sant said yesterday....

Nationalist MEP David Casa yesterday visited Marsaxlokk as part of his activities marking Constituency Week. While there, he visited the hard standing facilities, opening soon, and also spoke with various fishermen. ...

MEP Simon Busuttil was appointed as the European People’s Party coordinator for economic cooperation in the Euro-Med region. In this role, he will be the spokesperson of the EPP group...

Cikku Fenech, the Mosta farmer and landowner involved in a shoot-out in one of his fields in Mosta on 18 May 2003, was one of yesterday’s main witnesses in the trial by jury of John Pace, who is being accused with Mr Fenech’s attempted murder....

The residential roads the central government is building in Qormi will be ready in eight weeks’ time, Urban Development and Roads Minister Jesmond Mugliett promised yesterday....

Tax compliance controls needed to be reviewed and strengthened, finance ministry parliamentary secretary Tonio Fenech stressed yesterday at a seminar on Value Added Tax, organised by the Malta Institute of Management (MIM)....

The Court of Magistrates has cleared a woman of driving carelessly when she ran over a man in Mosta....

At 25.1 per cent of the population, Maltese lead the EU male obesity leagues while Maltese women, at 21.2 per cent, come in third place just behind the English and Germans in terms of the body mass index of people 15 years of age and over....