25 years ago - The Times

Wednesday, April 13, 1994

GWU plans sympathy strike

The General Workers’ Union is set to call nationwide strikes next week if problems at Malta Drydocks and Malta Shipbuilding are not resolved, union general secretary Anġlu Fenech said yesterday.

Mr Fenech gave the industrial action warning while speaking to workers from the two shipyards during a protest held yesterday in Paola.

AFM patrol boat, fishermen in trammel nets incident at Delimara

Marsaxlokk fishermen and the Department of Information yesterday clashed in giving a version of an incident which took place near Delimara the previous night.

In the incident, involving the crew of an Armed Forces of Malta patrol boat, a Marsaxlokk fisherman was injured when he was hit by a rifle butt.

In a statement, the DOI said that at about 7.50pm on Monday, a report that illegal fishing was taking place at Birżebbuġa was received at the AFM Operations room and a patrol boat was sent to investigate.

The crew discovered several trammel nets in authorised locations and one in St George’s Bay, Birżebbuġa where trammel net fishing is not allowed. The net, the DOI said, was removed from the spot by the crew of the patrol boat and taken to Haywharf.

Half a century ago - Sunday Times of Malta

Sunday, April 13, 1969

Members from Cornwall in Malta

Mrs N. Turver, Superintendent of St Column Cadet Nursing Division, is leading a party of 29 St John members from Cornwall on a visit to Malta; she is assisted by Divisional Officer Miss G. Pascoe. The party is made up of ambulance and nursing cadets, two vice-presidents and six auxiliaries of St John Area Superintendent (A) Mr S.T. Bunt, is accompanying the party.

Spring festival at San Anton

His Lordship Mgr E. Gerada Coadjutod to the Archbishop, yesterday inaugurated and blessed the 11th annual spring festival organised by the Catholic Action at San Anton Gardens yesterday.

The blessing by Mgr Gerada was followed by a musical programme given by the Band of the 1st Bn, the Lancashire Regiment (P.W.V.).

Students deplore MUT ‘anomalies’

The Students Central Council of St Michael’s College of Education has strongly deplored what it termed “the havoc of anomalies which the Malta Union of Teachers is creating to the detriment of primary school teachers”.