New regulations under which two- and three-star hotels and aparthotels can, for the first time, offer bed-and-breakfast only have been introduced in order to tap the market for this service....

Nationalist Party candidate for the European Parliament election Ian Spiteri Bailey yesterday organised a breakfast meeting for friends and supporters at the Waterfront Hotel in Gzira....

British Labour MEP Mark Watts and Malta Labour Party candidate for the European Parliament Joseph Muscat have met a delegation from the General Workers’ Union to discuss ways in which they can defend Maltese and Gozitan workers....

General Workers’ Union officials are expected to meet Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi on 27 April to discuss, among other things, the union’s proposals to improve the country’s employment situation....

The Malta Labour Party yesterday welcomed Israel’s move to remove Jewish settlements, but said that for real progress to be made, Israel needed to retreat to pre-1967 borders....

Government statistics confirm the county’s critical situation and show the difficult times the country was facing, Labour deputy leader Charles Mangion said yesterday....

A Maltese man is due to appear in court in New Jersey, United States, after being caught trying to defraud an Atlantic City casino out of $5,000 according to a news report on Super One yesterday....

A 27-year-old youth from Marsaxlokk was yesterday injured after the motorbike he was on fell into a ditch by the side of a road in Qormi....

A cannabis smuggling attempt by a Maltese man was foiled in, what was for him, probably the most annoying way possible – a dog following him and sitting next to him wherever he stopped....

Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono visited Maria Antonia Borg in Kercem who turned 100 last Tuesday....