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GWU report contradicts KMB on security and defence in EU

By Kurt Sansone

While the General Workers’ Union legal adviser Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici on Monday sounded the warning that if Malta joined the EU it would not have a guarantee that it will live in peace, MaltaToday was leafing through an unpublished report commissioned by the GWU that reached a completely opposite conclusion... READ MORE>

Medical fees - the true story

Louis Buhagiar’s excessive medical fees investigated by UK agencies

A MaltaToday probe confirms that UK agencies and insurance companies have sparked off an inquiry into the excessive fees meted out by Labour spokesman Louis Buhagiar. Prof. Buhagiar who served as parliamentary secretary for the elderly (1996-1998) has been at the centre of an investigation by reputable UK agencies linked to the insurance industry after a series of reports from British tourists who visited Malta.

Insurance agencies abroad have told MaltaToday that they are so concerned with the high medical fees they are considering increasing the premium fir travellers coming to Malta. Until going to print Labour leader Dr Alfred Sant did not comment about the implications of this revelation on Prof. Buhagiar’s political standing in the Labour party.

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Interview

The MLP will definitely win the next general election
Young, determined and optimistic, medical practitioner Karl Chircop talks to Ray Abdilla

Saviour Balzan on Sunday

Blackout
With two fully operational power stations Malta is still capable of blackouts. Saviour Balzan offers some thoughts on accountability at EneMalta and how it feels to be a prostitute

People

The right man for the job
Being chairperson of the National Commission, Persons with Disability, is a hectic 24-hour job, as Mario Schembri Wismayer finds out when Mr Joe Camilleri talks to him about what it is like to be in the hot seat and about the commission’s achievements and aspirations

Memory Lane

Talking to George Agius
George Agius is a union man through and through. At age 78 he still works for the union he has loved since he was a kid. He was Secretary of the General Workers' Union and also Malta's Ambassador in Bonn

Sport

A new, young President investing for the future
At only 35 years of age, Silvio Scerri President of a top Maltese waterpolo club: Marsacala. He speaks to RAY ABDILLA about the game in Malta. And why the new format is wrong, and what needs to be done for waterpolo

This Week

What a week!
Howard Jones is Malta’s first registered acupuncturist. Zillah Bugeja speaks to the man who found relief for his own health problems within traditional Chinese medicine

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