€48 million investment to create medical centre and 100 new jobs

Mar 18 2022

A new €48 million investment by pharmaceutical company KELIX bio will be seeing the creation of a world-class manufacturing and distribution centre in Malta.

A governmental statement revealed that this instrument will be instrument in its cause to develop and commercialise affordable speciality generics for emerging economies.

Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development announced the investment, saying that it will create 100 quality jobs over the next three years. Dalli announced the investment during a visit at KELIX bio accompanied by Malta Enterprise Chief Executive Kurt Farrugia and KELIX chief executive Hocine Sidi-Said

The Minister explained how KELIX is an example of an investment which Malta wishes to attract. ‘Innovation and cost leadership are today being put into action. The investment being carried out by KELIX bio, with the support of the CDC, the Development Partners International and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is an investment in citizens around the globe.’

KELIX bio is a specialty generic business which focuses on selected therapy areas and product forms of oncology, diabetes, anti-invectives and inhalers, injectables and biosimilars. They are exported to over 40 countries around the world and the company has acquired Italfarmaco SPA’s subsidiary Chemi Malta in Ħal Far.

It will be taking over its newly built world class, EU and US-FDA certified facility to augment its labour force with around 100 new professionals.

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Lies are the only tool Labour has left says Bernard Grech

Mar 18 2022

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech has claimed that the Labour Party’s only remaining weapon for the election campaign are lies.

Addressing a political event in Mqabba on Thursday evening, Grech said that Labour started its election campaign with a lie by saying that he (Grech) would not contest his district.

‘Robert Abela, I will contest this district with conviction, and not out of convenience like you because you want to try and remove candidates like Miriam Dalli. I am contesting this district as I lived in this district’ said Grech.

He went on to accuse the Labour Party of more lies, bringing up recent scandals surrounding Abela’s involvement in a property deal with Christian Borg as well as his Zejtun Villa.

Grech criticised the Freeport and motorsports track pledges by saying that the PL had been promising the latter for ten years. The PN government would undertake this project and make it a success, said Grech.

Grech also slammed Abela for ‘running away’ from a. Debate with him at Junior College with students. He said that Abela instead prefers to attend a walkabout somewhere in Malta instead. ‘Abela does not respect our students and for him they are not important.’

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Economy needed €100 vouchers to recover from COVID says Abela

Mar 18 2022

Prime Minister Robert Abela insisted that Malta’s economy needed the €100 stimulus cheques to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The cheques were being delivered to people’s households as the election campaign continues, with workers and students receiving a €100 cheque and pensioners and people on social benefits receiving a €200 cheque.

With people also receiving a tex refund cheque amounting between €60 and €140, Abela told his supporters that it was important for the cheques to be sent at this time as the country needed them.

This came in reaction to criticism by the Nationalist Party, who labelled the cheque move as a vote-catching exercise. Abela responded by saying that this was not this case as the cheques were necessary to stimulate the economy.

‘Unlike the Opposition, we don’t postpone and we want to help people now’ said Abela, going on to reiterate how voters were faced with the decision of choosing whether or not these cheques were the last Maltese families received.

Abela highlighted on ONE TV programme AWLA the challenges faced by the tourism industry during the pandemic. He said how as the government was faced with some of the hardest decisions, it did not remain idle. ‘We didn’t need the pandemic to issue the vouchers’ said the Prime Minister.

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Ukrainian theatre with children written outside bombed by Russian forces

Mar 18 2022

A warning stating ‘CHILDREN’ was painted outside a theatre in Ukraine and made large and bold enough to be seen by a satellite in space.

The theatre was offering shelter for hundreds of young and old Ukrainians, but it was bombed along with its city of Mariupol by a devastating 1000-kilogram Russian bomb.

MP Dmytro Gurin accused the Russians of knowingly bombing the building whilst women and children sheltered inside. The statement accused Russia of mass murder being carried out by the forces in Mariupol.

The building was destroyed, revealed MP Gurin, who said that the Russians knew what they were doing. Satellite imagery firm Maxar Technologies said image snapped from space showed the word children written in Cyrillic, the alphabet used in Russia.

There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries in what the Mariupol city council called a deliberate and targeted strike. With conflicted reports on whether anyone emerged from the rubble, Russia’s military denied bombing the theatre or anyplace else in Mariupol on Wednesday.

This comes as Russia and Ukraine report some progress in negotiations and millions of Ukrainians flee their home country to ensure their safety from the bombing.

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