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More cabin baggage

As of March 31, passengers travelling from Gatwick have started to be able to carry more than one bag through security.

The government restriction limiting passengers to one item of cabin baggage was lifted at all other BAA airports on January 7, and in the Gatwick Airport transfer security areas in February.

The Department for Transport originally granted the airport an extension of the restriction to allow the new X-ray and archway technology to be installed in central search areas. The necessary work has now been completed.

BAA Gatwick will continue to restrict cabin baggage to a maximum 56cm tall, 45cm wide and 25cm deep.

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Banking programme to be held in Malta

The European Banking programme will this year be held in Malta. The programme, run by the IFS School of Finance and Loughborough University, was recently confirmed for a further two years.

The intensive 10-day course is sponsored by the EU's Erasmus programme.

Five partner universities - Loughborough (UK), Liechtenstein, Cyprus, Malta and Riga (Latvia) - chose six students each to send to the programme, held each year at one of the universities.

The programme covers a range of written assignments, company visits, presentations and meetings with investment professionals, on the topic of fund management.

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New partners for Attard Giglio

Attard Giglio Co. has entered into a partnership with Terrence Norris to form AG Norris Consulting Ltd. The partnership enhances the business advisory arm of Attard Giglio, which already provides audit, accounting and tax advisory services to its local and international clients. Mr Norris brings significant management experience in enterprise risk management, internal audit and investigations, and business re-engineering from his work in the Maltese and Canadian public service and private sectors and more recently his work in the United Nations in Middle East countries, Syria Jordan Lebanon and Gaza. He has spent the last five years as chief of the office of internal oversight services for peacekeeping operations for Bosnia, Ethiopia/Eritrea, Ivory Coast and Haiti.

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193 tourism employees trained

Over 193 front line employees in the tourism sector recently completed a 12-module customer care and service culture training programme as part of the Merħba Tourism Awareness and Customer Care training programme. The participants included 69 transport sector employees, 69 tourism operational staff from Gozo and 55 EFL group leaders. The Merħba training programmes are being organised by the Malta Tourism Authority's industry HR development unit. The programmes started at the end of March and come to an end in June.

The training is being conducted by MISCO, who was awarded the service contract by public tender.

Merħba is co-funded by the European Social Fund and all training programmes are provided free of charge. By the end of the project the MTA would have targeted over 1,500 front-liners in the tourism sector.

Further information may be obtained from the MTA on 2291 5125 or e-mail training@visitmalta.com

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Operations manager for The Palace

Kenneth Camilleri is the new operations manager for The Palace Hotel in Sliema. Formerly the Financial Controller for The Victoria and The Palace, Mr Camilleri started his career within the AX Group in 1994 at the Suncrest Hotel.

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