10 years ago - The Times

Thursday, December 4, 2008

New energy rates: Families will save €27 a year

The revised energy bills should mean an average annual drop of €27 a year for most households when compared to the original tariffs proposed by the government, according to an audit report leaked to The Times. The latest deal struck over the energy bills is still in the balance as most of the unions in the bloc that negotiated the latest revision are still questioning the announced final version.

The figures showing the reduction were never published because the Malta Resources Authority is verifying the audit report drawn up by KPMG.

Brussels may take legal action over planned Għadira road

The European Commission could take the government to court if it goes ahead with plans to build a new road through a protected site in Għadira without backing its project with stu­dies, Birdlife said yesterday.

Transport Minister Austin Gatt, who is fronting the project, said although he was not an expert on habitats, he was confident the road would not cut through the protected area.

25 years ago - The Times

Saturday, December 4, 1993

Soldier’s body recovered

Joseph Delmar, the AFM soldier from Żebbuġ reported missing on Wednesday, was recovered from the seabed by police divers at Għar Lapsi yesterday. He was found in 15 metres of water, 10 metres off the shore. The 27-year-old father of three had finished work at Safi on Wednesday morning and gone fishing at Għar Lapsi.

Radical reform at St Luke’s

A radical infrastructural reform programme at St Luke’s Hospital is nearing completion. It consists of an Emergency and Admission Department but, in effect, it is a self-sufficient mini-hospital, complete with two operating theatres and all necessary services, Parliamentary Secretary John Rizzo Naudi said.

Whitewasher critical

A 58-year-old whitewasher doing a paint job on a house façade in Rabat yesterday is in hospital in danger of dying after being knocked down by a car.

Emmanuel Tanti had two ladders bound together, with the foot of the lower ladder resting on the narrow George Borg Oliver Street. The ladder was hit by a passing motorist and Tanti fell a height of over one storey.

Half a century ago - Times of Malta

Wednesday, December 4, 1968

No sign of the milkman

Many housewives yesterday morning waited in vain for the milkman to turn up. They first thought he might have been taken ill or that he had been delayed at the MMU Centre in Ħamrun. But the reason was all milk agents went out on an ‘unofficial’ strike.

The milk agents – about 40 in all – complained they were not given the usual supplies of ricotta. They claim­ed officials at the centre told them early in the morning that they had to distribute the ricotta to hospitals.

A delegation from the Government Section of the General Workers’ Union later in the morning met officials from the Milk Marketing Undertaking to discuss the dispute.

Talented artist’s tragic death

The news of Edward Pirotta’s tragic death in London at the age of 29 must have come as a terrible shock to all those, and they were many, who appreciated his great talents as an artist or sterling qualities as a friend. He was open sincere and loyal.

There was never any nonsense or pretence about him or his art. Sincerity and solidarity characterised the man, as they marked his works. Pirotta had obviously the qualities that would have made him a great artist had been given a longer lease of life.

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