The Malta Independent 28 July 2026, Tuesday
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The Union and Josephine

Thursday, 10 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The Nationalist media is having a field-day with what is happening within the General Workers’ Union. ...

The Decline of the unions

Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

Figures released by the National Statistics Office last week continue to prove that there is a growing trend away from trade union membership....

Pre-budget Teaser

Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The pre-budget document “Securing our future” published by the government last Saturday gives us a teaser of what this administration has in mind for the next budget....

Shooting Ourselves in the foot

Monday, 7 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The shenanigans that went on at the Galaxy Hotel in Sliema on Friday night were ample proof of claims that the behaviour of some students who come to Malta to learn English is causing problems for hotel residents....

Playing With fire in a petrol station

Sunday, 6 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

At first it seems like there is a sense of a fatalistic deja vu in what is happening in Lebanon now. Once again, with memories of 1982 reawakened in our minds, we watch as Israel invades Lebanon as if it were its back garden,...

Summer Schools

Saturday, 5 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Over the years the number of summer schools that are organised all over Malta have increased. They did so as year after year more parents found it necessary, for different reasons, to send their children to such ...

When The bridge is down

Friday, 4 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Replacing the Manwel Dimech Bridge of the Regional Road will be a headache not only from a construction point of view, but also from the perspective of the changes that have to be made to the area’s traffic network until the project is completed....

Creating Jobs: but how?

Thursday, 3 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The latest statistics from Eurostat, the statistical office the European Communities, show that Malta registered the highest increase in unemployment among the 25 member states....

Accountability

Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

Everyone has his or her job to carry out. The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the responsibility and the higher the stakes....

Easing The pain

Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

The Malta Labour Party often complains about health services, with the latest statement last Saturday by spokesman Michael Farrugia lamenting that there is a long waiting list in the Radiology Department at St Luke’s Hospital....

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