The Malta Independent 25 May 2025, Sunday
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Malta’s public sector full-time employment up by 12% since 2018, totals 18% of full-time workers

The number of registered full-time workers in the public sector has risen from 47,687 in December 2018 to 53,529 in December 2024, data from the National Statistics Office shows. This means that in...

latest comment from R F, 25/05/2025 11:21: And how many are there employed through private companies and doing work specifically for the government, say like hospital staff and security officers to mention a few? Not to mention those who were asked to register as self-employed. Or those employed through the GWU scheme? Probably around 25% would be more accurate.
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Government turns its back as families continue to struggle with rising cost of living - PN

For the second time in a week, figures published in recent hours by the National Statistics Office (NSO) confirm the growing daily burdens faced by the Maltese people, the Nationalist Party said...

latest comment from ACassar, 25/05/2025 00:29: The party in government doesn't give a hoot. Never did. Its proponents are in it for themselves. First they dupe a good chunk of the electorate who tragically accepts things at face value, use the people, and then throw them away. The bigger tragedy is that the political masochists come back for more.
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9 of a doctor's 10 children are killed in Israel's latest strikes in Gaza

The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza 's Health Ministry said Saturday - a toll that doesn't include hospitals in the...

latest comment from Michael Walter, 25/05/2025 11:24: The systematic ethnic cleansing continues with the murder of innocent children and babies. The denial of food and water to starve the population into accepting 'voluntary migration', The destruction of hospitals and schools,these are all war crimes contributing to the genocide being carried out.Those carrying out this slaughter and those standing by and doing nothing other than crying antisemitism,deserve our profound contempt.
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PM visits Ta’ Dbieġi Crafts Village and Equine Therapy Centre in Gozo

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latest comment from Steve Magri, 24/05/2025 14:06: I’m sure he had time to go to xlendi and marsalforn and see the blocks of flats all around in what were once typical fishing villages
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