Hope on the horizon for crafts village
The government has been stepping up the tempo in its bid to solve the long-running issue of how to give the Crafts Village at Ta’ Qali a much-needed overhaul

Mediation skills training seminar next week
A Mediation Skills Training Seminar is being held on 8 April 2002 at Le Meridien Phoenicia, Floriana. The seminar is being organised by the Concordia Centre for Conciliation and Mediation Services in collaboration with Appogg, the Foundation for Human Resource Development and CDR Associates [USA]

Balance needed to tackle current liquidity
The current liquidity problems the country is facing and the role the banks play during an economic slowdown were both mentioned in a keynote speech made recently by the governor of the Central Bank Michael Bonello at a financial services seminar

Investment Registration Scheme’s first phase ‘very busy’
Speaking to The Malta Financial and Business Times yesterday, Central Bank of Malta Deputy Governor David Pullicino described March as a very busy month in terms of the government’s Investment Registration Scheme

Globe to seek regulatory merger approval
Globe Financial Management is to proceed with the next steps in its proposed merger with the local operations of British American Insurance by applying to the Malta Financial Services Centre and the Malta Stock Exchange for the proper regulatory approvals by the end of the week

A year of production in review
The Economic Policy Division shares its views on Malta’s economic performance last year. The Division asserts that the sluggish performance of the world economy had affected only a section of the Maltese economy and that, if the electronics manufacturing sub-sector were to be removed from the equation, real GDP growth over last year would have amounted to 6.7 per cent

Frendo launches Future of Europe website and online forum
Dr Michael Frendo, one of Malta’s members of the European Convention on the Future of Europe, has taken a personal initiative to launch a website and online interactive forum on the Future of Europe Convention, which is now officially named ‘The European Convention’