TOP STORY

Summer schools hit by 18% VAT
Kurt Sansone
Parents pondering whether to send their kids to summer school have to contend with an added burden as from this year schools are obliged to charge 18 per cent VAT on services offered as these are not deemed to be educational.

TOP NEWS

Maltese ‘unlawful’ red tape maddens importers

Unexpected stoppage of shipping service upsets importers and exporters

OTHER NEWS

Gonzi does not deny PN financed Iva movement

Lawyers hold sway over translators

No reference to Cassola please

Mqabba students on discovery trail

Human traffic - why Eritrea’s abuses were ignored

WasteServ minimise rat scare

Police to indict MIA chief executive

Vittoriosa council ‘solves problems’ by removing secretary

INTERVIEW

Moderately Labour
Former Air Malta Chairman Louis Grech hopes the European Parliament will be the ideal platform to put his experience to good use - By Kurt Sansone

From union to Europe
The Nationalists’ ersatz labour agenda has found a voice in Ian Spiteri Bailey, the UHM lawyer who turned down a nomination for magistrate and instead decided to run for the EP elections. By Matthew Vella

THIS WEEK

Malta’s theatre man
Manuel Cauchi’s theatre credits run like a veritable ABC of theatre and include: Henry Hackamore in ‘Seduced,’ Arthur Christie in ‘Who Killed ‘Agatha Christie?’, Priuli in ‘The Life of Galileo’, Antony in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ , Benedick in ‘Much ado about Nothing’...

SPORT

Tony Formosa's world of sports
Operation clean-up

Will malta be a bridge to the south?
Karl Schembri takes our promise to bridge Europe with North Africa seriously and foresees some problems

Small is Beautiful
Saviour Balzan takes a historical and cultural perspective at Malta and the Maltese

The day Europe became one
Kurt Sansone recalls the day in Copenhagen when the EU of 25 finally became a reality

Waiting for Europe - the long march to emancipation ….
Matthew Vella leaves no stone unturned in underlining the aspirations of that very small but anxious libertarian core of Maltese voters

Is Europe a Christian bastion?
European identity has been moulded by its deep roots in Christianity, is this still valid? Julian Manduca asks

EDITORIAL

Abusing social benefits
Government’s concerted action to bring its finances to some normality includes fighting abuses. Many a citizen is abusing the system by claiming and benefiting from government funds, they are not entitled to...

OPINION

The super glue syndrome
Every week, Maltese ministers and parliamentary secretaries are away participating in meetings held together with their European counterparts in Brussels.- Saviour Balzan

The Church and Sensitivity -Karm Farrugia

Life is Cheap: Kill two for the price of one -Anna Mallia

Small is beautiful -Harry Vassallo

Various approaches to scrutinising EU Legislation -Jose Herrera

The cleric’s hotbed - John G. Borg - Bartolo

Why were the Greens left out? -Dr Michael Zammit

BUSINESS

Wide range of pension reform views at Business Times seminar

Novel ‘prudent’ target funds launched

New Chief Executive Insurance Services at Global Group

LETTERS

Maltese translation howlers?

Maltese milk should have been improved ages ago

AD consistent on divorce

The PN and hunting derogations

PN does not need to push more voters away