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Pete Buttigieg, a former candidate for the Democrat presidential election and a strong supporter of President-elect Joe Biden, is tipped to be Secretary of Transportation. In a Facebook post he wrote: I'm honored that President-elect Joe Biden has asked me to serve our nation as Secretary of Transportation, joining the extraordinary team that he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said there is still a path to a Brexit deal but it is a narrow one. "As things stand, I cannot tell you whether there will be a deal or not," Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Brussels. Fishing rights and a "level playing field" remain major sticking points although von...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt by almost all the 2,604 firms and corporations surveyed by HSBC Group for the bank’s Navigator Report earlier this year. The findings of the report, entitled ‘Building back better’, were discussed during the webinar ‘Building Resilient Organisations’, held by TradeMalta and supported by HSBC Bank Malta. The webinar focused on how companies...
The Malta Sustainability Forum, organised by APS Bank, is Malta’s most forward- thinking event on sustainability and contributes to pushing the debate to the front of Malta’s national priorities. Following the success of its first edition last year, the Forum will return between 24 and 29 January 2021 for a six-day online event. This new edition will be broadcast online in...
Melita TV customers with an Android TV or Android box can now download and make use of Melita’s NexTV Android TV App instead of using the traditional set top box. Offering the same functionality as the standard Melita equipment including functions such as Record and Catch up, the NexTV Android TV App also gives customers access to a number of...
​A 21-year-old man sustained grievous injures after he was attacked in Triq l-Għabex, Birkirkara on Monday night at around 10-15pm. The man, who is British, was found injured on the floor at the entrance to garages. From police reports the man was attacked by a group of people who fled scene before officers arrived The victim was given first aid by a...
Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government José Herrera announced a fund worth €45,000 issued by Arts Council Malta in collaboration with the Malta Band Clubs Association for the purchase of instruments for students to learn a particular instrument. Minister Herrera reiterated that the Government is committed to continue strengthening and supporting band clubs because he truly...
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries of the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) met virtually in an informal Ministerial Meeting on 14 December 2020. Both sides expressed solidarity and underlined the high importance attached by the countries of both regions to their long-standing partnership, based on common interests and shared values such as...
The competition, targeted at children of the fourth, fifth, and sixth primary year, with the theme ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’, was welcomed by students and educators, so much so that in its early days dozens of submissions were received. In this competition, children are invited to create drawings, postcards, models, articles, stories, short videos,...
Referring to the incident that took place this morning in Triq Melintone Scerri in Ħamrun, in which an apartment in a block of social housing was engulfed by fire, officials of the Housing Authority immediately went to the scene and worked together with the authorities concerned to ensure that the necessary assistance is provided to each affected family. The Housing...