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5 star land at negligible prices The leases paid for use of prime government land by big development projects appear to defy logic, with ground rents being charged with apparently no fixed criteria in mind. They vary widely and it is impossible to justify the disparities by looking at area and location IPSE launches new Enterprise Loan Guarantee With a view to the increasingly competitive market environment, increasing business risks and tighter market opportunities, the Institute for the Promotion of Small Enterprises yesterday launched a new Enterprise Loan guarantee grant start ups better access to banking finance, which has become an increasingly complex issue for Malta’s Small to Medium Size Enterprises Wine Intergroup's visit to Meridiana Six members of the Wine Intergroup toured Meridiana Wine Estate at Ta'Qali on the eve of Santa Maria as part of an official fact-finding Study of Maltese vineyards and wineries Planning guides for the retail sector The Malta Environment & Planning Authority has published a Public Consultation Draft - ‘Interim Retail Planning Guidelines’ for the retail sector MTA to implement MEPA tables and chairs policy Tourism Minister Michael Refalo and George Pullicino, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Home Affairs and the Environment, on Monday spoke about MEPA’s change of policy which favours a more liberal official attitude to the placing of tables and chairs on public land abutting catering establishments and bars. The new policy does not apply to fixed and mobile kiosks Miss Bikini World 2002 for Bay Street "The final of the Miss Bikini World 2002 contest will be held at Bay Street Hotel Complex on Saturday 26th October 2002. The event will be staged by Miss Tourism World Organisation, the largest producers of beauty pageants and modelling competitions in the world in conjunction with locally based Catwalk Productions International," Paul Chetcuti, Operations and Event Director of Catwalk Productions International, said Maltese Students participate in International Scientific Experience Last month, sixth-form students Reuben Borg, Dion Scerri, Tessa Bugeja, Keith Vella, Kristian D’Amato and David Borg Bartolo, set out to Slovakia, together with their group leader Sandra Scicluna on a flight kindly sponsored by Air Malta Maltese delegation joins Sustainable Development Summit Yesterday saw the addition of the Maltese Delegation to the already 13,000-strong summit for Sustainable Development Abela Fitzpatrick re-elected MIM President In the first meeting of the newly elected Council, Joe Abela Fitzpatrick was unanimously confirmed as MIM President through a secret ballot. The re-election marks Mr Abela Fitzpatrick’s 10th year as President of the Institute – 1985-6, 1989-93, 2000-2 – evidence of his relentless determination and continued commitment toward the Institute, its members, and the management profession |
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