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Top News 28/07/2002

GWU report contradicts KMB on security and defence in EU

By Kurt Sansone

While the General Workers’ Union legal adviser Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici on Monday sounded the warning that if Malta joined the EU it would not have a guarantee that it will live in peace, MaltaToday was leafing through an unpublished report commissioned by the GWU that reached a completely opposite conclusion... READ MORE>


Medical fees - the true story

Louis Buhagiar’s excessive medical fees investigated by UK agencies

A MaltaToday probe confirms that UK agencies and insurance companies have sparked off an inquiry into the excessive fees meted out by Labour spokesman Louis Buhagiar. Prof. Buhagiar who served as parliamentary secretary for the elderly (1996-1998) has been at the centre of an investigation by reputable UK agencies linked to the insurance industry after a series of reports from British tourists who visited Malta.

Insurance agencies abroad have told MaltaToday that they are so concerned with the high medical fees they are considering increasing the premium fir travellers coming to Malta. Until going to print Labour leader Dr Alfred Sant did not comment about the implications of this revelation on Prof. Buhagiar’s political standing in the Labour party.

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