In an interview with Times of Malta, one of Malta s topmost contractors:
Warns of over-supply of properties in many areas of Malta;
Says developers, planning authorities to blame for new pencil buildings ;
Sees few signs rental market will go back to pre-pandemic days;
Says price of building supplies and shipping have skyrocketed;
Reveals many homes in the care sector have empty beds;
Proposes property bank, where the state rents properties at market prices and offers them to those in need of social housing at subsidised rate.
With plans to retire soon and his group of companies celebrating its 75th anniversary, construction mogul
Marsa residents and activists say plans to relocate an oil tank cleaning operation to the inner harbour town should be called off immediately, with no studies and or consultation preceding the delicate decision.
Last month, Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg announced the transfer from Fort Ricasoli to the Mediterranean Offshore Bunkering Company site in Marsa, after years of complaints by Kalkara residents over emissions from the facility.
Borg said that Ricasoli Port Facility Ltd would take over the operations and workers of the MOBC. The facility is used to clean the tanks of oil tankers before they enter shipyards for repairs.
Why Labour attracts young people
Bernard Grech, who stupidly said that “young people are being attracted to Labour due to the cannabis”, keeps making a name for himself for his incoherent, at times totally ridiculous, statements!
When his interviewer, Peppi Azzopardi, questioned Grech: “Are you saying that young people are being attracted to Labour just because of cannabis?” the ‘temporary’ or stop-gap leader of the PN reiterated his claim.
This was a direct insult to the intelligence of the vast majority of young people. As well as those who watched this interview.
How can young people be attracted to the PN when it is being led by someone who never expresses his opinion on controversial subjects?
Hundreds of people have been left waiting for hours for their vaccination appointments in a long queue snaking through the grounds of the University of Malta campus.
The health ministry suggested the issue was due to the fact that people aged between 30 and 40 have been invited to apply for the jab this week, with first appointments set for Wednesday.
According to the National Statistics Office, there are more people aged between 30 and 40 than there are in any other decade, with 88,901 people in this cohort.
It took a
Times of Malta journalist more than six minutes to walk from the top to the bottom of the queue at the Tal-Qroqq campus.
The compilation of evidence against four men facing charges of involvement in two murders, including that of Daphne Caruana Galizia, continues on Tuesday.
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