Updated - Sliema parking scheme will not be reintroduced tomorrow - Mayor

Sliema Council will discuss the locality's controversial parking scheme with the parliamentary secretary for local councils, Jose' Herrera, tomorrow, Mayor Anthony Chircop said this afternoon. The meeting will come on the day which the council had designated as the end of a three-week deadline to reintroduce the scheme - which was suspended by the government. Earlier this week the Mayor had warned that the scheme would be re-introduced unless there was progress. However he said this afternoon that the council was in no rush and would not reintroduce the scheme tomorrow, pending talks aimed at an agreement with the government and Transport Malta. Tomorrow's meeting will be the first between the council and the government since the scheme was suspended. Mr Chircop said talks would also be held with Transport Malta but no date had been set yet as arrangements were being made for Transport Minister Joe Mizzi to be present. Earlier this afternoon, the Malta Union of Teachers said that it would issue directives to teachers in Sliema if that locality's local council reintroduced the residents' parking scheme. It had called a strike of a few hours before the scheme was suspended three...