A man of Italian descent and a young Maltese woman are being held by the police after they were caught trying to smuggle 10 kilos of cannabis resin into the country late on Thursday evening. According to Customs Department officials, this is one of t...

The financial report issued by the Maltese Archdiocese shows that it made a loss of Lm130,000 in 2003, which is substantially lower than the Lm563,000 loss it made the previous year....

In the latest step to fight sub-standard living, the Housing Authority has announced that 145 subsidised housing units will go on sale in the near future – 10 of them at a 50 per cent rate....

Provisional labour statistics for September 2004, based on the administrative records of the Employment and Training Corporation, point to an increase of 492 people in the labour supply compared with the same month last year, according to figures rel...

In September 2004 there were 21,266 people holding part-time employment as their primary occupation. On the other hand, there were 16,222 who held a part-time job in addition to their full-time employment. There are therefore 37,488 part-time jobs in...

The clearing and rebuilding of parts of the Burmarrad watercourse is well under way and the positive results had been evident after this week’s storms, Infrastructure Minister Ninu Zammit said yesterday....

Four different images of a waxen Baby Jesus, chosen from the many hundreds of effigies representing the Infant Jesus which are so popular in Malta and Gozo, are being featured on this year’s set of Christmas stamps which Maltapost will be issuing on ...

The president of the former Bical bank, Cecil Pace, has confirmed that a story written by Saviour Balzan about the bank was based on what he had told the MaltaToday editor. Former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff considers this story libellous and has file...

A detained illegal Iraqi immigrant has had his hopes of release dashed for the second time, after the Criminal Court revoked the previous judgement that declared his arrest illegal and ordered him to remain in detention....

The war of words between Labour leader Alfred Sant and Investments Minister Austin Gatt over the Brindisi Freeport continued yesterday, with Dr Sant claiming that Dr Gatt “is a liar” and the minister replying that the “Labour media proved Dr Sant is ...