June 16, 2022

Innovate scheme was announced during a visit at IBG Automation in Ħal Far Minister for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise Miriam Dalli announced a new scheme to facilitate innovation processes within small and medium enterprises through a partnership between small or medium enterprises, and research organization, based either in Malta or abroad. The Innovate scheme covers part of the costs so that an individual from the research organisation will be loaned for a period of time with the enterprise. This will lead to further innovate processes. Assistance can serve as a consultation given by the research organisation, or support systems to

​This year’s winners of the annual Premju għall-Arti organised by Arts Council Malta, have been announced during an awards night at Fort St Angelo, Birgu. This is the fifth edition of the Arts Awards and follows two years of virtual awards due to the pandemic. For this year’s edition Arts Council Malta has received over 300 submissions, with 100 making it to the nominations stage. For each category the nominations were short-listed to 3 finalists out of which a winner was announced during the awards night.    This edition of Premju għall-Arti consisted of 14 awards out of which 10

President Joe Biden told The Associated Press on Thursday that the American people are “really, really down” after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are slamming family budgets. He said a recession is not inevitable and bristled at claims by Republican lawmakers that last year’s COVID-19 aid plan was fully to blame for inflation reaching a 40-year high, calling that argument bizarre. As for the overall American mindset, Biden said, “People are really, really down.” “They’re really down,” he said. “The need for mental health in America, it

Fear swept through financial markets Thursday, and Wall Street tumbled as worries roared back to the fore that the world’s fragile economy may buckle under higher interest rates. The S&P 500 fell 3.3% in a widespread wipeout to more than reverse its blip of a 1.5% rally from a day before. Analysts had warned of more big swings given deep uncertainties about whether the Federal Reserve and other central banks can tiptoe the narrow path of hiking interest rates enough to get inflation under control but not so much that they cause a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost