Editorial
A consensus on VAT, good news
at last!
Tuna
war highlights political vacuum
Focus
Price Club quo vadis?
Both Leo Brincat and Vince Farrugia tend to agree that Government need
not intervene in the Price Club issue and they also give their views
on a foreign take-over.
Opinion
Building a successful entrepreneurship policy
By
Edwin Vassallo
Parliamentary
Secretary in the Economic Services Ministry, Edwin Vassallo, spoke on
Monday about the formulation of an entrepreneurship policy for Malta
and the inherent need for a co-ordinated and multi-disciplined approach
for Malta’s socio-economic environment. Following are extracts
from his spe
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Finance
Minister John Dalli yesterday said Malta had set a precedent
in the world by unilaterally taking corrective measures in the
offshore regime. He was addressing
an OECD forum at the Hilton, he is seen here with Attorney
General Anthony Borg Barthet
Photo
Paul Blandford
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Maltese millionaire sells Irish gem
By David
Lindsay
Maltese lateral thinking guru Edward de Bono has decided to sell his
33-acre island, West Skeam, located just off the coast of western Ireland.
The island, which De Bono had purchased for £350,000 sterling
five years ago, has been placed on the market for in excess of £1million
sterling
Intense negotiations with foreign
investors and Andrews Feeds at Price Club
The Price Club chain of supermarkets is undergoing intense negotiations
with foreign investors and local company Andrew's Feeds over a possible
sell out of the chain
Compensation claims to be settled
Persons who were awarded compensation for injustices they suffered years
ago, but who were never paid what was due to them, are to be awarded
an ex-gratia compensation of not more then Lm5,000 each
Sunblock raises GWU ire
Failure to provide meter readers with sunblock has led the GWU to issue
notice of industrial action for the section of meter readers. Meter
readers will not be working after 11.00 am from today
Air Malta joins Greenpeace in blockading
Norwegian whale exports
Supporting Greenpeace’s bid to prevent Norway from breaking a 15-year
ban on whale meat exports, Air Malta, along with 20 other airlines,
has pledged not to transport blubber or meat from whales
Nationalist government comes to
terms with Tuna fiasco
By Kurt
Sansone
The decision by the Nationalist Party to postpone the ‘Fish Fair’
that it holds annually at Marsaxlokk is indicative of the ill manner
the government handled the tuna fishing controversy between Maltese
and Italian fishermen
Discovery
Centre to be converted into household department store
By Kurt
Sansone
The Discovery Centre at Bay Street will shortly change its livery and
turn into a department store selling household goods and furniture
Malta and Iceland debate greater
economic linkages
Minister for Economic Services Josef Bonnici has just returned
from a short visit to Iceland where he had meetings with Ms Valdgerdur
Sverrisdottir, Minister of Industry and Commerce, and with Mr Sturla
Boovarsson, Minister of Communications.
Setting a precedent in international finance
Finance Minister John Dalli yesterday explained that the had taken its
toll on smaller countries with limited resources and on operators in the
areas affected but that Malta has still made considerable progress in
the area.
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