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3 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 17 JANUARY 2024 NEWS KARL AZZOPARDI kazzopardi@mediatoday.com.mt LETTER OF INTENTION I the director Amanda Borg Grech, of Adnama Company Ltd., hereby declare our intention to register our company for an Employment Agency License in accordance with Article 23 of the Employment and Training Services Act, 1990 (Act XXVIII of 1990). The activities that we propose to carry out under the scope of our Employment Agency License are as follows: 1. Recruitment Consultancy 2. Interviewing, selection, and placements of candidates in employment 3. Recruitment of persons from abroad for employment in Malta or in an EU member state 4. Recruitment of persons in Malta for employment in Malta or in an EU member state 5. Advertising the filling of vacancies 6. Keeping a register of applicants for employment Our business address is as follows: Adnama Company Ltd, 101 Mensija Road, San Ġwann SGN 1039 Our Company Registration Number is: C102541. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 48-year-old Ronnie Ghiller died of a heart attack in May 2020, while being subdued by law enforcement officers, who were responding to a report of a disturbance near his home in Żabbar. In the immediate aftermath of Ghiller's death, the police had issued a statement claim- ing that the man had been aggressive towards a doctor while at the Paola Health Cen- tre. Ghiller had been tasered by the police, before being ad- ministered a tranquiliser by a polyclinic doctor, after which he had lost consciousness. He was taken to hospital, where he died a short while later. Ghiller had refused to com- ply with orders given by police officers who were dispatched to his residence in Żabbar, following reports that he was throwing mud at passersby. A post-mortem established that Ghiller had taken cocaine not long before the incident. It emerged that he had been struggling with mental health problems at the time. His relatives are reported to have observed that only co- caine toxicity and taser expo- sure were listed as the cause of death on Ghiller's death certificate, with no mention being made of the tranquiliser injection. A magisterial inquiry lat- er established that the police had followed the Standard Operating Procedure for the use of Conducted Electrical Weapons in force at the time, and cleared them of criminal liability over Ghiller's death. The judicial letter, signed by lawyers Kris Busietta and Ja- son Azzopardi, calls upon the Commissioner of Police and the Principal Medical Officer to compensate Ghiller's fami- ly in the next three days. A Malta-flagged, Greek-owned cargo ship has been hit with a missile off the coast of Yemen while transiting through the Red Sea. The Greek news agency Ana- mpa said the bulk carrier called Zografia was around 76 nau- tical miles north-west of the Yemeni port of Saleef. It was en route to the Suez Canal having departed from Colombo, Sri Lanka. The missile is reported to have damaged the ship but was still able to sail on its own steam. The vessel has a crew of 24 but their nationalities are not yet available. This is believed to be the third incident involving the vessel in 24 hours. Tuesday's incident comes as the US military announced it had seized Iranian-supplied weapons bound for the Houthis during an operation last week. Meanwhile, the US has hit more targets in Houthi-con- trolled areas of Yemen with an official telling CBS the military conducted further strikes on Houthi positions overnight. The US and UK launched a wave of airstrikes against doz- ens of Houthi targets on 11 January following attacks by the Iran-backed group on ship- ping in the Red Sea. It is not yet known what was attacked in the latest US oper- ation. The Houthis have vowed to retaliate and on Sunday the US said it had shot down a missile fired towards one of its war- ships from a Houthi area of Yemen. Several vessels have been tar- geted by the movement's fight- ers since November in protest at Israel's war with Hamas. The Houthis say they are tar- geting vessels which are Israe- li-owned, flagged or operated, or are heading to Israeli ports. However, many have no con- nections with Israel. The Red Sea connects the Indian Ocean to the Mediter- ranean via the Suez Canal in Egypt. Several shipping lines have announced they are now diverting vessels round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to reach Europe instead. The US said on Tuesday that analysis from the weapons it seized from a ship near the Yemen coast suggested the Houthis had been using the same kind of weapons in their Red Sea attacks. The seizure took place on 11 January near the coast of So- malia - the same day as the first US-UK airstrikes. Cruise and ballistic missile components were among the items found on a ship, as well as parts for air defence equip- ment. "This is the first seizure of lethal, Iranian-supplied ad- vanced conventional weapons (ACW) to the Houthis since the beginning of Houthi at- tacks against merchant ships in November 2023," US Central Command said in a statement. It also said a search is contin- uing for two Navy Seals who were lost overboard during the operation. According to media reports, one officer was knocked off the ship by high waves and the second jumped in afterwards to try and help as is required by protocol. Malta-flagged Greek ship hit by missile from Yemen Houthi rebel attacks in Red Sea continued on Tuesday with a missile hitting the Malta-flagged ship, Zografia (pictured) Ghiller was tasered and later tranquilised before losing consciousness