Maltese government registers deficit of €373 million in first 5 months of 2022

Jun 25 2022

In the first five months of 2022, the Maltese government registered a deficit of €373 million. When compared to the same period in 2021, this would mean a decrease in deficit of around €280 million.

This was revealed in the National Statistics Office’s publication on the government’s financial position, with the document also revealing that the government had registered a deficit of €650 during the pandemic.

The NSO revealed that the government’s largest spending bracket was €54 million which went towards programmes and initiatives including the €48 million government stimulus cheques. Social benefits saw an increase in €28 million and €26 million went towards tax cuts and subsidies while €7 million were spent on the regulation of gas prices.

The government now has €8,410 million in debt.

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Police officers should have higher salaries, says PN MP Alex Borg

Jun 25 2022

Nationalist MP and Gozo spokesperson Alex Borg has stated that police officers in Malta should have higher salaries in order to attempt to handle the human resource shortage within the police force.

In a parliamentary address, Borg stated that there is a lack of security in Gozo but the blame does not lie with the force but with those responsible for allocating human and financial resources.

“Now that summer has started, the Gozitan population more than doubles and public activities like feasts an others increase. And the human resource within the police force remains as is. How are we going to handle it?” Borg asked, before he went on to call for better working conditions and wages to attract more and more capable people to this career choice.

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TikTok to release orchestral collection of trending hits

Jun 25 2022

Since its inception, media platform TikTok has contributed to the growth of a considerable number of viral hits and now, these same hits will be getting the orchestral treatment with a release on CD and vinyl.

The platform will collaborate with Warner Classics to release 18 viral songs such as Alice Merton’s No Roots and flute-filled riff Monkeys Spinning Monkeys, as performed by Germany’s Babelsberg Film Orchestra.

Other track’s include the trending Wellerman Sea Shanty as posted by Scottish postman Nathan Evans in 2021 and piano piece Pieces by Danilo Stankovic, which was used in around 3.4 million TikToks.

The coming-together of two completely different worlds will certainly have TikTok users, classical music aficionados and music lovers in general definitely fascinated in the prospect.

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Air Malta leases extra plane to meet demand as tourism continues to recover

Jun 25 2022

As the tourism sector continues to bounce back after a 2-year blow due to the pandemic, national airline Air Malta is now leasing an extra plane and crew to meet increased travel demands this summer.

Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo took to Facebook to share this news in addition to the fact that the airline carried almost 270,000 passengers over a period of two months.

The airline’s chief commercial officer Roy Kinnear highlighted that the extra aircraft will aid Air Malta in facilitating the increased demand on travel including flights to Madrid, Prague, Lyon as well as charter flights to Warsaw.

Such high demand is expected to continue increasing during the summer months, with occupancy levels and seat load reaching record levels.

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