Financial performance Reported profit before tax of €10.4m, a decrease of €20.3m or 66% compared toprior year. The Covid-19 outbreak had a material impact on our performance inparticular on the expected credit losses and other credit impairment charges (‘ECL’)of €25.6m and on the insurance subsidiary results. Fundamentals remain strong with revenues broadly flat year on year. Significant improvement in...
Prime Minister Robert Abela spoke by telephone to Pete Buttigieg, US Secretary of Transport.
In an Instagram message he wrote:
Just spoke with @pete.buttigieg to discuss our vision for the transport sector and our aim to have a carbon-neutral economy.
Malta's achievements in civil liberties were also on the agenda. I look forward to working together to strengthen the relations between our countries.
A 33-year-old man from St Paul's Bay was seriously injured after crashing his motorbike in L-Iklin
No-one else was involved in the accident which happened in Triq il-Wied, at around 8pm on Monday night.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled a four-stage plan to ease the coronavirus lockdown in England.
It will be done in phases but all will be conditional on the state of the pandemic in the country.
Among the measures he announced are:
All schools and colleges in England will reopen, while all childcare can resume.
Care home residents will be allowed one named...
Minister for Education Justyne Caruana, on behalf of the National Book Council, presented a donation of books to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne which will be distributed to COVID-19 healthcare frontliners in Malta and Gozo.
The occasion also marked yesterday’s International Mother Language Day with a donation of over €80,000 worth of books written in the...
Another 193 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours with 242 people recovered from the virus.
New figures released by the Malta Communications Authority show that Melita has continued to grow its broadband internet customer base, making it the first operator in Malta to sign up more than 100,000 subscribers.
The latest data, covering July to September 2020, also shows that Melita took more than 50 per cent of new market growth in the broadband...
Hamrun Spartans and Hibernians maintained their top places in the BOV Premier League with wins on Sunday.
Hamrun had to overcome a late scare before edging past Balzan.
The Spartans were two up inside the opening half hour through Franklin Sasere after just four minutes and Joseph Mbong before the clock had reached thirty minutes.
It was not all plain sailing for...
Opposition leader Bernard Grech said the Nationalist Party is ready for a General Election as soon as the coronavirus pandemic is contained.
Speaking in Victoria, Gozo, the Nationalist Party leader said he wanted to see Gozitans working from home two days a week.
He again mentioned that he wants to see a Regional Council for Gozo.
Bernard Grech said he wanted to...
Prime Minister Robert Abela will present Cabinet with his plans to reform the pre-1995 rent laws.
Speaking at a party event at Villa Bighi in Kalkara, he said, “We won’t allow anyone to end up homeless, we won’t burden vulnerable people with rent costs they cannot afford, and landlords will be fairly compensated for their properties, as per the principles...
