10 years ago - The Times
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
First batch of free Herceptin arrives
The first batch of free Herceptin arrived in Malta yesterday and is expected to provide respite in different forms to the women who need the treatment urgently.
“It’s a Christmas present,” one of the women said. There are three women who are already taking the drug and need to keep taking it every three weeks without fail.
The young mother had to mortgage her house to get the thousands of euros needed to cover the treatment, which she started in the first months of the year.
Santa will get the message
Be it traditional snail mail, smoke signals, e-mails or telepathy all methods devised by children to communicate their gift list to Santa Claus rely on the obvious assumption that the bearded man knows everything.
After all, if he knows who was naughty and deserves coal, he must know who was good and deserves the gift they asked for.
Three-year-old Katya wrote a letter to Santa at school, which she has now pinned to a notice board in her room from where she is confident he will get the message that she wants a singing Barney.
25 years ago - The Times
Friday, December 24, 1993
Malta hits back at Fairplay
Furious local shipping representatives have strongly criticised claims that Malta is a “shoddy” flag state.
Shipping magazine Fairplay has alleged that Malta does not “discharge its responsibilities as a flag state”.
The claims were made following the sinking of the Maltese registered tanker Grape One off the coast of France during a storm earlier this month. But a leading shipping agency hit back yesterday saying the article was “completely unfounded”.
Mr John Gauci Maistre of G&M International Services, which registered Grape One, said Fairplay clearly had a grudge against Malta.
’Yard council attacks government
The Malta Drydocks’ council yesterday accused the government of wanting to withdraw the right of ’yard employees to elect their own council.
Referring to a statement by the Minister of Finance on Wednesday, which said that the Drydocks’ Council experiment had failed, the council said the minister had not substantiated his claim.
Half a century ago - Times of Malta
Tuesday, December 24, 1968
Nato-Malta talks in Brussels
Talks between Malta and Nato are being held in Brussels to further the consultations and discussions envisaged in the 1965 Resolution of the Atlantic Council concerning relations with Malta.
In August this year, Nato created a standing “open-ended group” under the chairmanship of the Secretary-General. The meetings being held in Brussels are open to all member nations of Nation which have an interest in Malta.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Commonwealth and Foreign Affairs said yesterday that the start of these meetings meant that the arrangement created by Nato in August was now functioning. The Secretary-General is taking part in the meetings.
Bon voyage to children on cruise
Hundreds of parents and friends turned out at the Deep Water Quay yesterday afternoon, in spite of the gloomy weather to bid bon voyage to 283 students and 21 party leaders who left on the British India schoolship Uganda for a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean.
The schoolship sailed in yesterday morning with 75 West German students and five party leaders who embarked from Genoa.