10 years ago - The Times
Friday, August 1, 2008
Pregnant woman dies as 100 migrants brought ashore
Two women, one of them pregnant, were brought ashore dead as the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) rescued over 100 illegal immigrants between dusk on Wednesday and dawn yesterday in three separate search and rescue operations. The two women formed part ofthe same group of immigrants who claim that a third member, a man, was lost at sea.
In the first two operations, two boats carrying 28 and 53 illegal immigrants respectively were brought ashore in the early hours of the day. Among them were six women, one of them also pregnant. The men in these groups hailed from Somalia, Ghana, Togo, Liberia and Iraq. The group of 53 was picked up from an inflatable boat that was nearly submerged.
Later in the morning, a tugboat alerted the AFM that it had come across another 28 illegal immigrants of Somali and Nigerian origin about 79 nautical miles south southwest of Malta.
These migrants told the crew of the tugboat that two members of the group, a man and woman, had been lost at sea. Also with the group was a dead woman who had drowned, according to the migrants.
25 years ago - The Sunday Times
Sunday, August 1, 1993
GWU calls for new price index
The General Workers’ Union has laid down its conditions for discussions on “new” incomes policy agreement between the three social partners – government, employers and unions.
In a letter to Finance Minister John Dalli, the GWU listed proposals on the operation of the retail price index and the incomes policy agreement.
“The GWU national council,” the union’s secretary-general Anġlu Fenech wrote in a letter dated July 29, “expects the government to reach an agreement with it on its proposals.
“After the agreement with the union, the [GWU] national council will be in a position to discuss the possibility of a new incomes policy agreement to replace that expiring in December.”
MLP says elderly must not be used for propaganda
Government should stop its craving for propaganda and truly attend to the needs of Malta’s elderly population, the Labour Party has urged.
In a statement issued yesterday, the MLP accused the government of trying to obtain political mileage at the expense of old people.
Half a century ago - Times of Malta
Thursday, August 1, 1968
Union gives government an ultimatum
The General Workers’ Union has given the government an ultimatum – it expires this evening – demanding that employees of the Port Auxiliary Service due for discharge by the Navy on Saturday be found alternative employment. The number of men being discharged is 20.
The Union’s Action Committee told the government and also informed the Services authorities yesterday that it would suspend all pilotage in harbour as from tomorrow unless written guarantees were given that the redundant men would not be discharged and would be absorbed in other port work, as the Union stated, had been recommended in Lord Robens’s report.
Paper-bomb explodes in boy’s face
Joseph Curmi, 17, of Sannat, Gozo, was transferred by ferry yesterday afternoon from Victoria Hospital to St Luke’s Hospital after sustaining eye injuries in a paper-bomb explosion.
Curmi was in a field near Sannat when he found a paper-bomb and set it alight. It exploded in his face.