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Local
News • November 16 2003
BICAL
Scandal
On the outside it may seem as if the new Labour administration
and national executive are a united front, but just below the
surface party delegates can spot a game of alliances, which sees
Alfred Sant in a weakened position...
Kurt Sansone
A Maltese man nicknamed Lobster is the mastermind behind the transportation
of illegal immigrants from Malta to Sicily according to an investigative
report published in Italian magazine Il Giornale...
Asylum seekers kept waiting up to eleven months
Matthew Vella
It costs an average of Lm1.30 every day for an asylum seeker to
be housed and fed at the Armed Forces of Malta’s compounds,
which today house 364 migrants at the Lyster and Safi barracks.
The total bill, since January of this year, has now escalated
to Lm135,367 for the AFM, or Lm476 a day on average, to accommodate
the constant flow of asylum seekers that enter Maltese waters...
Matthew Vella
"The men in our families paid USD4,000 to board a ship that
should have taken us to Italy," Hagu, who at 45 is a mother
of five, says. A Kurd, she left her small hometown just outside
Istanbul almost 15 months ago along with her family and other
Kurds...
Reacting to what has probably been a barrage of questions from
the media on the successor of Archbishop Joseph Mercieca, the
Vatican’s representative office in Malta yesterday said that
the "canonical process will start at the opportune moment:
when the Pope deems fit."...
Kurt Sansone
Archbishop Joseph Mercieca on Tuesday unknowingly heralded a new
era being the first of this country’s leaders to submit his
resignation. Within a span of a year Malta could possibly see
a generation change among its leaders...
Julian Manduca
Snail mail was one of Malta’s hallmarks for efficiency, a
letter posted before 7am would arrive that very same day, but
with a privatised post office things are not what they used to
be.
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