December 13, 2024 Reports of HSBC’s looming departure from Malta in September sparked a torrent of speculation over what this meant for the bank’s clients, with some questioning what would happen to their savings and investments once the bank changed hands. The news was seemingly confirmed in recent weeks, with HSBC Malta telling its shareholders […]
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Malta also had one of the worst fiscal deficits in Europe, Jonathan Attard claimed
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Several social media posts saying this have stoked outrage
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November 7, 2024 A seemingly innocuous measure buried in the budget held on 28 October raised an unexpected furore when Times of Malta flagged that the required years of social security contributions to qualify for a full pension will rise from 41 years to 42 for people born after 1976. The measure quickly became the
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October 22, 2024 Poor and tasteless construction is rampant in Malta. So it is no surprise that many Maltese believed that a particular image published on Facebook showed a local building. A reverse image search on Google quickly shows that the building is not in Malta. Search results show that it first went viral in
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September 6, 2024 With the tourist season in full swing, the debate over the type of tourists arriving in Malta, and their impact on Malta’s economy, has once again hit the front pages. Tony Zahra, the president of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association, one of Malta’s main tourism lobby groups, was the first to
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July 30, 2024 New data published on Tuesday 23 July puts paid to ongoing speculation about how much workers in Malta earn on average. The debate over salaries is a regular feature of public discourse in Malta, with social media users frequently resorting to anecdotal or downright fabricated figures to drive their point home. But
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News of Steward’s bankruptcy led some to speculate that the hospitals would have been up for sale
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Data indicated that wages had stagnated, PL say they’re up 25%. But there’s more to it than meets the eye
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The Prime Minister claimed that food inflation is not decreasing, unlike inflation in other sectors
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