In the Press: Strike at HSBC Bank

The Times of Malta

HSBC employees have been ordered by their union, the Malta Union of Bank Employees, not to report for work before Wednesday. MUBE said that it is issuing this directive after the bank threatened to lock out employees who had obeyed its sit-in strike directive on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Malta Independent

Health Parliamentary Secretary Chris Fearne said that only 10 of the new beds to be created at the Gozo General Hospital will be made available to the Gozitan patients following a 200 million investment in local hospitals. The rest are expected to be used for medical tourism.

L-Orizzont

The Department of Local Governance has confirmed that it was never informed that a report on road works in Mosta was carried out by a company owned by the husband of Mosta mayor Shirley Farrugia.

In-Nazzjon

Line Young Peteri, a young mother who has been living in Malta for the last few years, has spoken to the newspaper about her battle against thyroid cancer and depression.