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Lm25,000
commission fails to submit report
The welfare commission, better known as the Pensions Commission,
which was expected to draw up a strategy for reform in the welfare
system by October 1999, has still not concluded its report.
No nonsense PM breaks with protocol
Taking
advantage of the mid-term Prime Minister Fenech Adami is in no mood
to be told how the run his business. He has broken with protocol
and the normal communications strategy and directly queried press
reports
Cottonera
project attracts foreign workers, but not Maltese
Cottonera,
the project which was planned to serve as a godsend for the jobless,
has attracted a workforce of Sri Lankans and Yugoslavians , but
not Maltese
Media
cooks up fantasia plot
Meinrad
Calleja has now become the perfect voodoo doll in times of crisis
for some sections of the pro-government press
Mnajdra grant sees light of
day…at last
A report,
carried by MaltaToday two weeks ago that a $50,000 grant for the
restoration of Mnajdra temples had not been spent because the National
Museum of Archaeology did not produce an acceptable plan, seems
to have kickstarted the authorities into action
Toxic shame revealed
Tonnes of chemicals used by various Maltese industries annually
end up in the sea or else at Maghtab where they seep into the ground.
This is the shameful situation of a country that has no official
policy on how to dispose of its toxic waste
Broadcasting Authority censors
slang and vulgar words on TV
Super One TV’s new series, Shelly Ranner, which is transmitted
every Sunday at 8.30pm has raised the Broadcasting Authority’s
ire after two commonly used Maltese slang and vulgar words were
aired in the first episode
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