Malta Chamber vice-president Liz Barbaro Sant has been appointed chairperson of TradeMalta, replacing Stephen Sultana who held the position for the past two years.
Speaking during TradeMalta’s annual general meeting, Barbaro Sant said internationalisation has become increasingly important for the competitiveness of enterprises of all sizes.
She said that, sometimes, it might become complicated for small and medium-size companies to understand the tendencies of the world’s economy when trying to explore new commercial opportunities, and this is where TradeMalta comes in to support and assist companies of any size.
Sultana said that during the past two years, TradeMalta has continued to diversify, expand and refine the range of services to industry while assisting a growing number of Malta-based companies to enter into new and emerging markets in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
From images of HIV-infected bananas and cringeworthy
Love Actually inspired videos, to legislators speaking about a woman’s place in the kitchen, social media is increasingly becoming an awkward arena for Maltese politicians.
Social media posts over the past months have regaled us with a self-complimenting former prime minister, and an opposition leader awkwardly dancing in a TikTok video with a group of young activists.
In 2017, whoever was managing Joseph Muscat s official Facebook profile forgot to switch users.
The feedback to such posts is usually a mix of disbelief coupled with an army of so-called
prosit ministru followers who would applaud anything their politician says or does.
My only conclusion is that there is a segment within the party which expects (or even demands) complete and utter partisan loyalty and fulsome praise at all times, especially in that most public of spheres – social media, and more specifically, Facebook
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A programme that funds job placement opportunities for students studying ICT or related subjects is to receive a funding boost, to incentivise private firms to take on young trainees.
The MITA Student Placement Programme for 2021 will have an €800,000 budget, Economy Minister Silvio Schembri said, with companies receiving a 75 per cent reimbursement of basic salary costs, compared to the 50 per cent they received previously.
In practical terms, participating private organisations will benefit from an additional student salary of around €500 per student employed as part of the program, he said.
Reimbursement for the public sector will remain at 100 per cent of salary.