Mqabba Man finds second world war bomb
Monday, 12 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The owner of a quarry in Mqabba yesterday found a world war two bomb as he was cutting stone....
90 Ecstasy pills seized – 20 people arrested
Monday, 12 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Twenty people, aged between 17 and 31, were arrested over the Easter weekend after 90 ecstasy pills and some cannabis were found in their possession, a police report said yesterday....
The Mystery of the Hypogeum
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The following excerpt, taken from an obscure webpage favoured by the searchers of the esoteric, speaks about the mysteries of the Hypogeum in Malta. We offer this as an interesting provocation, in the mode of the Von Daniken books, exhorting those wh...
Crucial Week for Airmalta
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
This will be a crucial week for Air Malta as its four unions debate the Company Pact drafted by the government after intense negotiations with the unions over the past weeks. The four unions are: the General Workers Union, the pilots’, the engineers’...
‘My Experience is my asset’
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Experience and consis-tency are the hallmarks of Michael Falzon’s bid for the European Parliament. Interview by Gerald Fenech....
Understanding Malta In the context of Europe
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
HANS-GERT POETTERING, chairman of the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament, spares five minutes from his busy schedule to talk to...
MHRA Telephone survey reveals increase in April occupancy
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 23 years ago
Malta Independent
A telephone survey conducted by the MHRA across its membership base this past week has revealed that occupancies across its hotel members during the month of April have fared better than the corresponding period last year....
Bahrija ‘in The Middle Ages’
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A reader has written in to complain about the state of affairs in the remote countryside hamlet of Bahrija, where it seems that, despite Malta’s imminent accession to the European Union, even the basic infrastructure necessary for survival is at “at ...
Eritrean, Ethiopian Illegal immigrants ‘in good health’
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The 39 illegal immigrants who landed in Malta late on Friday evening are all in good health, police said yesterday. The 34 men, three women and two children are being kept at the Hal Safi AFM barracks....
Butler Not likely to be extradited to Italy any time soon
Sunday, 11 April 2004, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Charles Butler, the man who was arrested in the United Kingdom following an international arrest warrant issued by the Ragusa Courts in connection with the trafficking of illegal immigrants from Malta to Sicily, is not likely to be extradited to Ital...