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The councils at war
with public nuisance
number one?
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National study
seeks factors
that lead to risky
sexual behaviour
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Let's talk
about STIs SCOOTERS
MAT TH E W VELLA
A plan by finance minister
Clyde Caruana to have some
600 employees at the loss-mak-
ing Air Malta transferred into
the public service and pub-
lic sector, was not possible to
effect without breaching EU
rules on state aid.
Government sources said the
writing had long been on the
wall, well before Caruana's
declarations on the national
airline's uncertain future back
in January.
Effectively, putting 600
workers on the State payroll
would have been challenged
by the European Commission
as an act of state aid, a view
long held by top civil servants
who have seen countless La-
bour ministers fumble on Air
Malta,
That same view was repeat-
ed to the Labour administra-
tion as it became apparent
that the voluntary
employee trans-
Air Malta plan foiled by State Aid rules
Comino,
a symbol
of Malta's
national
malaise
Police face Graffitti,
back on Comino to
challenge abusive
public coastline
encroachment
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Christine Cassar (centre), of Moviment Graffitti,
addresses a rally of around 100 activists who once
again came to Comino to protest the continued
abuse of public foreshore rules
PHOTO: MOVIMENT GRAFFITTI
Suzanne Maas
charting a
different route
on Maltese
roads MT2
