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Maltese artists’ international success put on local display
Times of Malta
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July 2, 2025
A new cultural initiative celebrating the global success of Maltese artists was officially launched on Wednesday. The initiative, titled RETOLD, aims to bring home a series of acclaimed art projects by local creatives who have earned recognition...
Lottoland announces major investment in Maltese sport during landmark ESG event
Times of Malta
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July 2, 2025
Lottoland took centre stage in Malta on Monday, June 30, with a display of environmental and social commitment, culminating in the announcement of a major new sponsorship deal with Malta’s top three waterpolo clubs: Sliema ASC, Neptunes WPSC and...
Island Escape: Discover The Allure Of The Maltese Islands
The Gloss Magazine
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July 2, 2025
Flavours Of The Mediterranean A stay in Malta is as much a culinary adventure as a cultural one. Maltese cuisine is a flavourful fusion of Sicilian, Arabic, French and British influences – rich, rustic, and often surprising. Pastizzi, the beloved...
A toast to tenacity: Malta Guinness unveils ‘We Move’ with celebration of spirit
Business and Financial Times
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July 2, 2025
Guinness Ghana Brewery, officially launched ‘We Move’, a Malta Guinness’ latest campaign with an event that pulsed with purpose, bringing together young changemakers, creatives, and brand loyalists in a space where optimism was more than a feeling...
Qatar Airways resumes flights to Malta
The Peninsula
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July 2, 2025
Doha: Qatar Airways resumes operations today, July 2, 2025, in Malta with four non-stop flights a week between Hamad International Airport (DOH) and Malta International Airport (MLA). The latest addition to the airline’s network in Europe affirms...
Sunflower in community garden is tallest in Malta
Times of Malta
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July 2, 2025
A Friends of the Earth Malta’s (FoEM) community garden has achieved a new national record: the tallest sunflower in Malta, reaching a height of 3.6 metres. “We are overjoyed,” said Michelangelo Galea, community garden and environmental facilities...
Editorial: Malta’s ‘shoulder-shrugging’ mentality
Times of Malta
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July 2, 2025
One cannot help but feel the frustration of the Valletta restaurant owner who found private trenching works blocking its entrance. Warren Cremona was forced to close his premises for a week, costing him thousands of euros in lost business and...
Russell Crowe Returns to Malta, Site of ‘Gladiator’ Filming, And Recalls Intensity of Ridley Scott Epic: “It Wasn’t an Easy Production”
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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July 2, 2025
The Oscar winner headlined the Mediterrane Film Festival’s closing Golden Bee Awards alongside honorees Jeremy Thomas and Barbie Ferreira, and an epic production with choreographed dance numbers and dazzling fireworks displays.
Emergency veterinary service launched for animals across Malta and Gozo
Gozo News
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July 1, 2025
The Ministry for Agriculture and Animal Rights has announced a scheme “to strengthen emergency veterinary care for animals.” It said that this service will be offered in three regions, namely – in Gozo, in the north of Malta as well as in the...
Martha Stewart, 83, gives ‘goddess energy’ in Skims x Roberto Cavalli caftan on yacht: ‘Living her best life’
Page Six
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July 1, 2025
Page Six may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Martha Stewart showed off her Skims x Roberto Cavalli caftan on a yacht. Martha Stewart/Instagram...
Malta needs an alternative Vision 2050: A green progressive vision
Malta Today
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The ink on Labour’s Vision 2050 had barely dried and out came the Nationalist Party supporting the document. Anyone with even a basic awareness of policy and politics should not have been surprised. The ideological underpinnings of Vision 2050 are...
One-year deferral of mandatory Skills Pass for Maltese and EU nationals
Gozo News
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July 1, 2025
The government said that it is deferring the introduction of the mandatory Skills Pass for Maltese and EU nationals, from the originally planned date of 1st of January 2026, to 1st of January 2027. “In full coordination with these stakeholders,...
Law on compulsory licence for operators in the construction sector comes into force
The Malta Independent
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With effect from today, Tuesday 1 July, the law regulating contractors in the construction sector came into force, the Building and Construction Authority said Tuesday. Contractors working in the demolition, excavation, and construction sectors...
WATCH | Minister defends construction sector reform but says results will take time to show
Malta Today
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Minister Jonathan Attard praised reforms in the construction sector, but warned results will take time to show. He conceded the process was accelerated after Jean Paul Sofia case, but insisted “years had been lost in reforms”. He was interviewed...
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Mandatory skills pass for Maltese, EU nationals in tourism sector postponed by one year
Malta Today
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Government has postponed the rollout of the mandatory skills pass for Maltese and EU nationals working in the tourism sector by one year. The requirement remains in place for third-country nationals. In a statement, the Tourism Ministry said that...
Wind farm scandal was 'central topic' of Montengro deputy PM visit to Malta
Times of Malta
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July 1, 2025
Montenegro’s deputy prime minister has stressed the importance of completing joint investigations into a scandal-ridden 2015 deal linked to alleged corruption that saw Enemalta overpay for shares in a wind farm in the Balkan country. The Mozura...
Skills pass rule for Maltese and EU tourism workers postponed by a year
Times of Malta
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July 1, 2025
Updated 2.45pm with ACE statement The introduction of the mandatory Skills Pass for Maltese and EU nationals in the tourism industry has been put off to January 2027, the government announced on Tuesday. Its introduction had been due this coming...
Introduction of mandatory skills pass for Maltese and EU nationals postponed by one year
The Malta Independent
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The government said Tuesday it is postponing the introduction of the mandatory skills pass for Maltese and EU nationals, from the originally planned date of 1 January 2026, to 1 January 2027. The skills pass was introduced in May 2024 as part of a...
Kinnie, Malta’s iconic soft drink launches in Ghana – first production in West Africa
The Malta Independent
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At centre, Mr Fouad Moufarrej, Managing Director - Acadia Industries, to his right, Mr Michael Farrugia, Deputy CEO (Beverage Business) and Mr Stephen Sultana, Head of International Business Development – Simonds Farsons Cisk plc with the Ghanaian...
Sow, Grow, Unite Community Garden at the Gozo General Hospital
Gozo News
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July 2, 2025
The Sow, Grow, Unite Community Garden is an innovative and a first-of-its-kind initiative in the Maltese Islands, and has just been officially inaugurated within the grounds of the Gozo General Hospital It is the result of a collaborative effort...