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Malta has lowest incidence of deaths on roads in the EU Malta is the country with the lowest incidence of deaths on the roads (6.4 male, 1.7 female), a Eurostat survey revealed. The lack of road network on the islands could be one of the influencing factors for these statistics. The same applies to a lesser extent for Cyprus with 10.7 and 3.4 deaths for men and women respectively. Based on data from Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, of the EU's 25 member states, the country with the highest rates of auto-related deaths amongst both men and women is Latvia. With 43.2 male deaths and 11.1 female deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in 2001, the Baltic state has the biggest problem with car accident deaths in the EU. (Source: Tiscali.Europe) |
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| Business confidence recovered, Bank survey reveals
Responses to the Malta Central Bank's latest business perceptions survey, conducted between April and May, show that, after three consecutive quarterly declines, business confidence recovered, with the majority of firms expecting an improvement in the performance of the Maltese economy. This renewed confidence was mainly driven by export-oriented sectors, which reported higher turnover during the first quarter of 2004. (Source: MaltaMedia) |
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President Joe Mifsud re-elected The current president of the Malta Football Association (MFA) Dr Joe Mifsud was re-elected on Saturday afternoon, during the MFA Annual general meeting. Joe Mifsud gained 57 votes against 41 votes for former president of Valletta FC Joe Caruana Curran. The re-elected MFA president had been first elected on July 23, 1992. He is currently also a member of the UEFA Executive Committee |
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Delimara and St Thomas Bay dead fish Alternattiva Demokratika expressed concern at the thousands of dead fish found between Delimara and St Thomas Bay over the past days and called for inspections and effective enforcement of legislation protecting the marine environment. Mr Causon also referred to other sources of marine pollution which were having a negative impact on tourism and insisted that the Malta Environment and Planning Authority had the duty to stop granting permits for tuna penning. AD's spokesman for the environment and rural affairs, Mark Causon said the authorities were in duty bound to investigate the cause. |
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Air arrivals rise by estimated 8.1 per cent
The number of tourists departing by air during June was estimated at 112,514, an increase of 8,420 or 8.1 per cent over the same month last year, the National Statistics Office said yesterday. The number of tourists departing by sea was estimated at 2,365. As a result, total tourist departures amounted to 114,879. Tourists departing to France increased by 3,194 over the same month last year. Other markets recording increases in departures included those of Belgium, the UK, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Norway and a group of “other” markets. On the other hand, departing Italian tourists accounted for 5.6 per cent of all tourist departures – a fall of 9.9 per cent. Other falls in tourist departures were recorded from, amongst others, the Danish, Dutch, US and the Libyan markets. |
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New bus routes imminent The dismal failure of the bus ticketing cards, which were intended to remove the need for cash to be exchanged between commuters and drivers, has convinced the transport authority not to increase the price of bus tickets as had been previously intended. When the cards were first introduced it was announced that people not using the cards would have to pay one cent extra, but with only a miserably small number of commuters using the bus cards, the Authority has changed its mind. When the cards were first introduced commuters complained that they had to pay Lm1.50 for an empty card, and while the Authority defended the price the commuters argued with their wallets and just refused to purchase them. Commuters also complained that using the cards was a slower process than paying by cash, slowing down each bus trip. While Malta does not enjoy night transport provided by the public transport association, The Authority believes it is vital to have a public transport night service especially since we want to encourage people to make use of public transport as opposed to private cars. |
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