The government spent more than €6.8 million on equipment and services related to COVID-19 between July and December last year, with costs for swabbing and testing kits ballooning as infections increased.
The contract with the heftiest price tag – more than €2.2 million – saw the government purchasing an undisclosed number of rapid test kits at the end of the November. This contract was awarded to E.J. Busuttil Ltd.
The government also forked out nearly €1.2 million for the leasing of beds for patients to be kept in isolation at St Thomas Hospital.
Details of the contracts awarded by the government – both through direct order and the so-called negotiated procedure – were published in the Government Gazette this week. A negotiated procedure allows the government to consult the economic operators of its choice and negotiate the terms of a contract with one or more of them.
A coalition of nine media freedom organisations has filed submissions to the public inquiry into the Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination, claiming that it is o
Portelli asked Yorgen Fenech to help him leak stories to Labour about Delia foes
Former Malta Independent editor who presided over Panama Papers onslaught against Labour, then turned to Tumas magnate to prop up beleaguered PN leader Adrian Delia
10 March 2021, 5:29pm
by Matthew Vella
The former editor of The Malta Independent and Adrian Delia’s former chief canvasser, Pierre Portelli, has admitting using Tumas magnate Yorgen Fenech to leak stories to the Labour Party on Delia’s internal party critics and rebels.
Portelli had led the paper when it was part of the ICIJ’s Panama Papers exposé, which the assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had propped up with her revelations on Keith Schembri, the former right-hand man to former prime minister Joseph Muscat.
For the first time in Malta, Master’s courses in the Business of Fashion and in Elderly Care Management have started to be delivered.
Idea Academy has launched its selection of Master’s programmes which will kick off in April, with programmes which also include Artificial Intelligence and its sought-after Healthcare Management and Leadership.
By popular demand, Idea Academy will also be bringing back its Property Agents Award course, essential for real estate agents and property brokers to obtain their licence to operate. This short course will start in March and run throughout the rest of the year.
Initially founded in 2005 as Idea Leadership and Management Institute, Idea Academy over time evolved into one of Malta’s leading higher education institutions accredited by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority. The academy offers a selection of bespoke, accredited programmes in the different fields of management, from certificate level right up to Master’s lev
Malta wants to rush into post-COVID normality but under pressure from resilient civil society and resident groups, the Planning Authority will have to decide on a number of controversial development projects, some of which are being given a haircut in an attempt to defuse opposition