NEWS | Wednesday, 13 January 2010 Issue 146

Muscat abolishes post of secretary-general

The Labour Party Executive unanimously votes to scrap the post of general secretary from its statute: consolidating Joseph Muscat’s power-base, and leaving the party President and Deputy Leader for Party Affairs to share the spoils>>

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Banks confiscate record number of properties

One fourth of Malta entitled to free medicines

Ramblers rage against Bahrija development

Two arrested after police haul 18,000 ecstasy pills

Attard’s political appointment promises to raise eyebrows

Underwater study reveals massive dumping outside Marsaskala

Tobacco industry disputes ban on smoking rooms

The reluctant ‘enfant terrible’

‘New’ cultural policy is nine years old

‘Take black dust samples from my back garden’

Egypt an accomplice in anti-Palestinian policies – Graffitti