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Suspected overdose
A 16-year-old is in danger of dying after suffering from an overdose at his parents’ home in Sliema.
The youth, found unconscious by his parents, is rushed to hospital and placed in the intensive therapy unit.
Monday, 19 June
Social partners meet on MCESD
The social partners members of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development hold a marathon discussion on the raison d’etre of the MCESD and try to seek a more effective role for the body that has been described as a talking shop by at least one minister.
Joseph F.X. Zahra, head of the National Euro Changeover Committee, is selected external rapporteur for the meeting and is expected to draw up a report of the proceedings.
Shipyard workers ask for debate
Drydocks workers demand a public debate be held between their representatives and the shipyard management unless claims made by the workers on the engagement of casual workers are not met.
The workers say the debate should be held in the presence of the media and could be held in English or Maltese leaving the choice up to the shipyard chairman and management.
Tuesday, 20 June
Boat people at Birzebbuga
A boat carrying 25 illegal immigrants, all men, docks in at Qajjenza in Birzebbuga after being sighted just off Malta’s southern coast. Police take in the immigrants when these come to shore.
Critical electricity supply
Enemalta submits a report on the country’s power generation plan until 2015, which gives a bleak picture of the current set up and states that Malta will need to hook up to mainland Europe’s electricity grid and invest in combined infrastructural projects to the tune of Lm195 million in order to sustain the increased demand.
The report says that the existing facilities will only just meet the expected demand by 2010. However, after the summer of next year, reserve capacity would have already been reduced risking massive power outages if any of the existing plants sustain damage.
Boy critical
A three-year-old boy, Mika Zammit is rushed to hospital in a critical state after sustaining injuries in a fall from a merry-go-round in San Gwann. He is admitted to the Intensive Therapy Unit.
Wednesday, 21 June
Breakout by illegal migrants
Scores of illegal immigrants are persuaded to return to the Safi detention centre half an hour after they break out and assemble outside the airport runway perimeter fence.
No one is injured in the brief incident, which is resolved following the personal intervention of Police Commissioner John Rizzo.
Thursday, 22 June
MTA under fire
The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association publishes its first quarter hotel survey, which shows a dismal performance for hotels in the winter and bleak prospects for the future.
During the presentation, leading hotelier Winston J. Zahra calls for the resignation of the tourism minister and MTA executive chairman Romwald Lungaro-Mifsud.
Girl dies
A two-and-a-half year old girl dies after falling a height of three storeys down a shaft of a house in Marsaskala.
Inciting racial hatred
A member of the Republican National Alliance executive council, Paul Salomone, is arraigned under arrest and charged with inciting racial hatred during a speech he made at the anti-immigration protest march organised by the right-wing movement in Valletta on 8 June.
He is charged with using abusive and insolent language with the aim of inciting racial hatred. Salomone pleads not guilty. He is granted bail by Magistrate Abigail Lofaro against a personal guarantee of Lm1,000, on condition that he signs once a week at a police station next to his house.
Friday, 23 June
An illegal immigrant is reported missing after a boat carrying 28 migrants capsizes as the migrants rush to one side on seeing an army patrol craft approaching them.
This is the second rescue of boat people in two days after Thursday evening the army rescues another group of 28 immigrants among which were four children.
Saturday, 24 June
FoE objects to development
Friends of the Earth presents its objections to MEPA over the proposed extension of development boundaries. In its objections, FoE expresses its great concern at the manner by which the proposal to give up further land for development has been handled by the authorities.
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