INTERVIEW
Small is beautiful

Volksbank Malta Managing Director Herbert Skok spoke to CHARLOT ZAHRA on how the bank developed from an offshore-based bank to a fully-blown retail bank during the 14 years that it has been operating in Malta. However, its strategy has always remained targeted at serving niche markets rather than the mass market >>

EDITORIAL
Summer of horrors expected
Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt has yesterday announced his intentions not to allow any lower electricity rates for bars and restaurants, and this in spite of Enemalta’s fuelcost plummeting substantially over the past months. If he were to allow cheaper commercial rates, this would in his view constitute a subsidy. >>

OPINION
George M. Mangion
Jobs for free
A lot has been written of late about the need for Malta‘s economic fortunes to improve. Leading economists lament that there must be a solution to this delicate economic dilemma amidst the current recession that is hitting the world. Jobs are the first that feel the drop in economic growth. >>