Sources: Malta Department of Information (Valetta) and Malta bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Malta's General Workers' Union (GWU), through its general secretary, Josef Bugeja, has called on the government of Malta to reinstate, in the upcoming 2017 draft budget, as promised, the system of day in lieu non-working public holidays in Malta when a Maltese annual Malta public holiday falls on a weekend. [full story]