Nearly 12,000 are unemployed
There were nearly 12,000 unemployed people in the third quarter last year, amounting to 6.9 per cent of the population, according to the Labour Force Survey.
The National Statistics Office said the survey indicated an employment rate of 55.1 per cent (162,567 people). The number of unemployed reached 11,986 and that of inactive people 175,581.
During the period under review, 59.2 per cent of people aged between 15 and 64, were either working or unemployed. The highest activity rates were recorded within the 25-54 year-old age groups.
The employment rate for the period stood at 55.1 per cent, with a gap of 33.8 per cent between male and female rates.
The largest share of employed males, 17.7 per cent, were engaged in manufacturing activities, followed by 15.5 per cent in wholesale and retail trade.
By contrast, most of the female employed population worked in education-related activities (17.1 per cent), followed by 13.7 per cent employed in the health and social work sector.
The employed were mostly engaged within service-oriented jobs. This category includes hairdressers, policemen and salespersons. These were followed by technical associate jobs, a category predominant among females. Males were mostly engaged in craft and related trades and technical or associate professional jobs.
In terms of professional status, the self-employed were estimated at 12.7 per cent of the employed. The number of full-time employed stood at 146,510, or 90.1 per cent of the number of people in employment.
More females were likely to have a part-time job or a full-time job with reduced hours.
The average gross annual salary of employees was estimated at €13,873. This amount is the equivalent of the basic salary and excludes extra payments such as overtime, bonuses and allowances.
The financial intermediation sector recorded the highest average gross annual salary by sector, whereas the highest average salary for employees by main occupation was in the legislators, senior officials and managerial occupational category.
Most of the unemployed were aged between 15 and 24. The majority of unemployed males had been looking for a job for at least12 months.
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lgalea
Jan 28th 2010, 14:02
C.Scerri
ILLEGAL immigrants ARE not only begging but they knock on doors and ask not for any small change but €20.
This is apart from robbing Maltese workers out of their work and lowering the working conditions still in employment.
Paul Gauci Min qallek li dawk li ghandhom 'il fuq minn 16-il sena kollha qed jistudjaw?
Jekk hemm dawk li jridu jahdmu u ghandhom aktar minn 61 sena jfisser li ma jistghux ilahhqu mal-hajja bil-pensjon misera li ghandhomi. Fuq kollox, insejt li Gonzi diga' gholla l-eta' ta' dawk li jahdmu ghal aktar minn 61 sena? Standard of living? Keep joking Gauci. We would be enjoying it were it not for the dire situation in which the people and country have been brought to by the N governments.
Johnny Casillas If they are a small circle then you have defeated your own argument because they certainly do not amount to 12000.
T. Camilleri
Jan 28th 2010, 13:47
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and have our hands tied and not be able to take into consideration our particular situation? Would you buy a size 46 shoes if you wear size 36 or vice versa? This is why the one-size-fits-all eu regulations do not fit us and other countries. A perfect example is Ireland where the Irish Government could not take corrective measures when the Irish economy was overheating.
Do you think that say 2000 Maltese citizens working in the UK as they have been doing for ages and we didn't need to become eu members for them to do so are not an insignificant minuscule number when compared to the total number of UK workers?
It is also a trait of pn apologists to call all those who do not tow their line the doom and gloom brigade. You can call us what you like because it will not make the slightest difference to us because we speak the truth which PN apologists do not want to people to hear or know.
T. Camilleri
Jan 28th 2010, 13:40
Joe Vella
Joe, if we leave the eu the illegal immigrants would have no attraction to come here because they will not be able to go to europe. Furthermore we will not be bound by the eu regulations and the Duiblin II convention and could re-introduce the laws we had whereby no refugees except from europe will be allowed in Malta. This was reserved by Dr Gorg Borg Olivier when he signed the Refugee Convention and it was the eu that forced EFA to repeal these reservations as it would not have otherwise considered Malta's application and because it knew that we will lump a lot of illegal immigrants who with its regulations will have to remain here. So if we leave we will not be bound by any eu regulations and can send the illegal immigrants back to Libya or tio their own countries. Once they know this they will avoid Malta.
As for those working in eu countries the figures speak for themselves. They amount to less than a quarter of foreigners who came here from the eu. As for the Lira yes, why not? Why should we not be able to adjust the value of our currency
A. Calleja
Jan 27th 2010, 22:12
"By contrast, most of the female employed population worked in education-related activities (17.1 per cent).... ....More females were likely to have a part-time job or a full-time job with reduced hours."
How come that nobody in this country realises the desperate need for more and more family-friendly measures to help out working parents!! The above statistics are confirming this dire social necessity!
Joseph Grech
Jan 27th 2010, 21:40
We hear that officially there's close to 12000 unemployed - and government awards bus licence holders so many thousands of Euros they will end up rich men. And this ''to go ahead with the transport reform''. Mind boggling, irresponsible action this! Looks like the government will do ANYTHING - even rip up what's left of our finances to ensure that not a single vote is lost!
Joe Vella
Jan 27th 2010, 21:05
@ Clayton Bartolo
One should not confuse Reserves, National Debt and a National surpluses. As a student of Accounting you should know better.
What EFA found was a Nation that was infrastructural bankrupt. A University in name only. With the consequences that left a Nation Intellectually bankrupt and a shortage of trained labour supply that is still felt to this date. What EFA Adams gave you and those in your age group is opportunity and a future and not a "KORP Tax-Xoghol" as prospective employment.
In December, the Central Bank issued the Data in regards to money supply, it reported that the level of savings held by the banks on behalf if its' depositors is at it's highest ever. So it is not a question of there is no money, but one that we are being a prudent in light of the World economic situation. The Maltese always had, and still have, total trust in Governments run by the PN. This is demonstrated everytime that a PN Government issue of Bonds is oversubscribed before it hits the streets. This couldn't be said of Labour run Governments, often ended up borrowing on the International money markets.
Joe Vella
Jan 27th 2010, 20:46
@ T. Camilleri
Illegal Immigrants will continue to land in Malta regardless if Malta is in the Eu, because Malta's geographical position is what it is. If Malta was to leave the EU, what makes you think that EU countries will be obliged to trade with Malta? Or are you suggesting that Malta once again becomes a Nation that begs for handouts as was the case in the"70's and the early Nation's? Shall we bring back the Lira as well, as that will be the only option once Malta was to leave the EU? Have you heard of a country named Iceland? They took Joseph Muscat advise. Are you aware of what Iceland is going through?
T, Camilleri, if it was for immigration, us Maltese will be like dogs eat dogs and fight to scrap a piece of bread from ever one can. So I cannot understand where you come up with the conclusion that the number of Maltese working abroad is an insignificant minuscule number.
Guess your way of thinking is typical to that of the Gloom and Doom Crowd who see things from the narrowest point of view.
Charmaine Chetcuti
Jan 27th 2010, 19:27
@ Martin Casha
I think you missed my point. I did not say that all 12,000 of registrants are abusers. I said that if the government were to reinforce his policies and cut abuse, then that figure will drop down drastically.
smifsud
Jan 27th 2010, 18:58
and the worst is yet to come ...beware ....Malta needs to get a grip on what they charge tourists or the island will sink very fast ....
T Camilleri
Jan 27th 2010, 18:55
Andrew Agius
Give us the numbers Agius. If we leave and they leave because of the eu then we can send all eu citizens back and not allow any foreigners to work in Malta. That would solve our problem because we would rid ourselves of thousands of foreigners and illegal immigrants who have been taking the work of our workers since we joined the eu and would have full employment.
Sarah Camilleri If we take your figures of those who came back to vote during the last election then we would not have any problems because they amount to a quarter of foreigners who are officially working in Malta, not counting the thousands more working on the black economy who are not only taking the work from our workers but denying the government and us from the NI contributions and IT. And Sarah don't try to impress because Maltese workers never had any problem working in other countries because they are just an insignificant miniscule minority compared to the employment sector and are well trained.
Paul Smith
Jan 27th 2010, 18:14
A Zahra is the only one talking total sense. We are seeing a massive failure of laisser faire capitalism 100% correct. what runs the global economy? what is the number one money creator, it gives us the ability to turn raw materials into commodities and hence create wealth?
ENERGY! Most of that energy comes in the form of Oil, problem is, the world is running out of cheap easy to get energy, as our draw down plays out, we will have to re-localize and gone will be the days of the 7,000 mile Sunday roast or the 10,000 mile ipod. At the moment in the UK - we have companies re-locating over seas thus destroying there local consumer base, but they still want paying by that very same UK Ex- employee who's job they outsourced.
c.t. busuttil
Jan 27th 2010, 18:07
Guess what I think? Check out tomorrow's paper and another report will tell us more about these 12,000 'unemployed'. Keep an open mind guys. Leave the quibbling to the poltiicians. Love yourselves and love your country. Nothing good comes out of hatered.
mario gellel
Jan 27th 2010, 17:44
@pn parrots
12,000 unemployed and about 15,000 others on a part time Job or yearly contracts as their only income.
Beware,that the worse is yet to come. Write it in your memory books.
Clayton Bartolo
Jan 27th 2010, 15:39
Lanqas ghal kliem sabih m'ghadhom jinqalghu Karl, ghax issa malajr dawru d-diska li gej il-maltemp u rridu nilqghu ghalih! U li ghandna problema bir-ricessjoni!!! Mela tajjeb, l-ewwel hadd ma semma xejn fuq ir-ricessjoni, u mbaghad fi xhin il-gvern induna li ghandu problemi serji beda jzeffinha fin-nofs. L-ewwel niftahru li r-ricessjoni mhiex se tolqotna, u mbaghad nibku u nolfqu ghax laqtitna u ma nafux fejn se naghtu rasna. Skuza tajba!! Issa tridu tkunu tafu x'inhi l-iskuza li jmiss ghas-Sajf li gej jekk ikompli jonqos it-turizmu?? Il-Worldcup!!!!
@ Joe Vella: EFA kien il-bniedem li mexxa lil Malta meta kellna l-kaxxa ta' Malta mimlija. Hu kien jghid; jekk hemm bzonn joghlew il-prezzijiet, ha joghlew il-prezzijiet (waqt il-mass meetings) u forsi ma kienx qed jghid hazin ghax dak iz-zmien konna (ohra minn tieghu din, ismaghha) MONEY NO PROBLEM. Tiftakarha dik l-ghajta Joe??? Illum dan is-slogan inqaleb u gie PROBLEM NO MONEY!!! Jien ma narax kollox doom and gloom, jien bniedem realistiku li naf x'inhuma l-problemi li niffaccjaw ahna z-zghazagh li rridu nibdew familja. Gej ihallasieli Gonzi l-loan tal-post???
@ Peter Shaw: xejn ma nista nghidlek hlief good luck!! J'Alla ssib xoghol tajjeb ghax hawn Malta problemi biss ghandna, u l-kbir ghadu gej!!!!
Clayton, Mellieha
Dominic Fenech
Jan 27th 2010, 15:06
You call other people idiots and then say "Eddie Fenech Adami saved Malta from a total financial and economic meltdown as happened in Iceland"? What on earth does the Icelandic situation have to do with Malta? Iceland went bust because of reckless lending and borrowing practices, that is, because of excessive risk taking. Over here our business practices can scarcely be called that.
Mark Casha
Jan 27th 2010, 14:31
Charmaine Chetcuti
I am unemployed but was denied social benefits even though I paid taxes and NI for 10 years almost. Just to please ppl like you ETC is penalising ppl like me who should be entitled to help. Yes there are those with fake addresses for relief etc but don't put everyone in the same basket thanks.
Joe E Galea
Jan 27th 2010, 14:22
@Joe Vella: With your same reasoning we obviously tell you to keep on seeing through the NET glasses. The problem with you guys is that you never admit failure. How many times that Gonzi is going to get jobs and opportunities? When this hasn't hapened at all but the situation is always getting worse due to the huge mismanagement unaccountability and corruption which engulfed the system in this country, then you blame it on the boogie, on recession, on the PL, etc.
What beats you most is the fact that as soon as The GonziPN utters some lie, it is immediately dicredited by facts.
Mike Vella BA.
Jan 27th 2010, 14:19
Clayton>.. i have diplomas as long as your arms,i have been keen on stuidies and taken all sorts of exams, and private lesson that my poor old mom and dad used to go without inorder for me to achieve something, yet now look at me 24 educated and yet still unemployed, as i am classified as over qualified for the jobs i am after, reason being an employer would rather employ a person without any qualifications, so the poor individual could only earn peanuts .I think after trying hard to obtain a good job in Malta for me has proved to be disastrous, so i have no choice but to emmigrate to a far away country, away from my family and close friends, unfortunitly its the only way forward for me as Malta has nothing to offer, people like myself and that is a real shame for a supposedly a rich country now a member of the EU. I think however most eu countries are now in the same boat so it won't be easy for an outsider as myself to get a job in europe where as most of their citiziens are after the same job! i wonder.
jbusuttil
Jan 27th 2010, 14:01
@ Clive Borh
Liked your comment about Net and I really laughed as for Super One co e One the recession does not exist.
Mark Casha
Jan 27th 2010, 13:57
Charmaine Chetcuti
I am currently unemployed have been looking for work 5 months now, and I haven't received a single cent in benefits contrary to what you are saying here. And I have paid NI contributions and taxes for 10 years. Yes there are people taking relief using fake addresses etc but I am not one of them are there are many like me who are unemployed and do not get a single penny.
Thank You pls do us a favour and inform yourself before jumping to conclusions.
Sarah Camilleri
Jan 27th 2010, 13:43
@ T. Camilleri
I'm pleased to inform you that thanks to EU membership, I am currently working abroad in an EU country and therefore lowering Malta's unemployment statistics.
Remember that over 2,000 people returned from the UK to vote in the last elections, together with over 1,500 from Brussels and Luxembourg - so you can't just focus on the negative.
laurence schembri
Jan 27th 2010, 13:41
Just think, if it wasn`t for Lawrence creating 7,000 new jobs, we would have 17,000 on the books claiming benefits. who to believe it`s up to you.
N. Borg
Jan 27th 2010, 13:12
I am convinced that a large percentage of the 12,000 should not be enjoying benefits. Probably some of them owrk as plasterers, tilers, etc etc not giving one VAT receipt and even worse driving up to the benefit centre in the BMWs.
Shame shame shame!!
Action must be taken, who ever is earning money should give their contribution just like all those people who work with companies or organisations that operate in a legal and ethical manner.
Andrew Agius
Jan 27th 2010, 12:59
@T Camilleri: Foreign companies have opened up all over malta since joning the EU. Employing lots of Maltese. If Malta closes its doors to legitimate EU workers then they should do the same.
If every Maltese comes home because they are not employable abroad there would be a hell of a lot more than 12,000 unemployed here!
lgalea
Jan 27th 2010, 12:53
Joe Vella
Don't continue trying to deceive the readers Vella. The Iceland meltdown had absolutely NOTHING to do with not being an eu member, but it was due to the mismanagement of their banks. You are right. The readers are no longer so gullible and can clearly see where your Gonzi government is leading us to with the membership EFA had succeeded into deceiving the people to accept.
clive borg
Mhux biss, imma kif intqal u hadd ma cahadha, hemm haddiema li qed jithaddmu bil-paga minima halli min ihaddimhom jidher li qed jobdi l-ligi u malli jsarrfu c-cekk tal-paga jridu jmorru jaghtu €20 lura lil min ihaddimhom ghax jekk ma jaghmlux hekk jispiccaw bla xoghol. Dik hija s-sitwazzjoni li gabitna fiha s-shubija ta' l-ue bil-barranin u l-immigranti illegali jiehdu x-xoghol tal-haddiema u l-familji Maltin.
KARL TANTI
Jan 27th 2010, 12:52
MARIO DE BONO
CLAYTON QED GHIX CUCKOO LAND HUX? MELA INT FEJN QIEGHED? BARRA S'SISTEMA SOLARI HI? X'RECESSJONI? AHNA ILNA SEJRIN HAZIN MINN MINDU TELA GVERN NAZZJONALISTA HABBA L KUSTJONI TAL EWROPA. DAK KIEN GVERN SKADUT U KONNA NAFU LI SE JITFA MALTA LURA, KIENU HEMM IS SINJALI U GHALEKK FENECH ADAMI DAWWAR DEMBU L'HEMM U TELAQ GHAX KIEN JAF LI MALTA GEJJIN ZMINIJIET KOROH.
DAK KIEN ZBALL TAL PL GHAX LI KIEKU RIED LI NKUNU MEMBRI SHAH KIEKU INTOM IN NAZZJONALISTI GA HADTU ZEWG TELFIET ELETTORALI KBAR KIF JIXIRQILKOM. IL POPLU GHAZEL, MELA ISSA FACE THE MUSIC SFORTUNATAMENT.
RECESSJONI IMBAGHAD JIGI L GVERN U JGHOLLI L KONTIJIET TAD DAWL BID DOPPJU, DAK MOD KIF TGHIN LIL MIN TELLEK FIL POTER DAK HUWA MOD BIEX TISTIMOLA L EKONOMIJA? U JEKK M'HEMMX EKONOMIJA SODA, GHIDLI INT KIF SE JKONNA X'XOGHOL? BIL MAGIC WORDS TAL MASS MEETINGS NAZZJONALISTI JEW?
Johnny Casillas
Jan 27th 2010, 12:48
Did they even ask how many of them are doing some work in the grey sector? How many are really not telling the truth. also, maybe some of these people work at home and they dont have to be emplyed by someone else. you can nver know the proportion of these 12000 who are online traders and making more than the normal paid guy in the office. i can assure you some of them are the ones driving a nice german sportscar on the road. the world has change. the home is the office. no one needs to work for someone to earn loads of cash. one good job you can do at home. be a headhunter. use only telephone line and then do some marketing and voila for one successful project you can earn at least 40000 Euros. there are a small circle doing in Malta. now thats what i am talking about.
Paul Gauci
Jan 27th 2010, 12:47
tistghu forsi xi darba tifhmu u tindunaw li 12,000 jinkludu dawk
- bejn 15 u 16-il sena li mhux suppost ikunu employed,
- dawk 16 + (sa 22 - 24 snin) li ghadhom jistudjaw u allura ma jahdmux, u
- dawk 61 + li hargu bil-penzjonijiet
JPisani
Jan 27th 2010, 12:47
@Peter Shaw
I am too an IT Graduate with approx 4 years experience, and in the last 2 years I was able to change job twice..... I think every situation is different, but in IT and accounting its easier to change jobs then any other.
g.c.Forte
Jan 27th 2010, 12:46
@ ALL. You all have made good comments, except Mario De Bono. Take out your head off the sand my friend. I do not know where you lived for the last 5 years, because mentioning just one of the most important sector the tourism, has been down the hatch for more than when the recession started. This sector is most important to us ( and this government left it dying slowly )because it touches 80% of the Maltese. To day many of our hotels are considering to close down, and that is not because of the recession,but because,,, A. what we need is just a little bit less than a million from the hundreds of millions of tourists that travel through out Europe every year. B. Why north African countries such as Tunisia, Marocco and soon Libya are taking most of the tourists in the Mediterranean sea ?
KARL TANTI
Jan 27th 2010, 12:39
joe vella
MELA HALLI NGHIDLEK JIENA XBIN. IL-POPLU MALTI M'HUWIEX IDJOTA, LANQAS XEJN PERO JIBLA HAFNA MILLI JISMA TA. KIENET CARA U XBAJT NGHIDA LI KIEKU KIEN HEMM PERSUNA OHRA FLOK ALFRED SANT KIEKU L ELEZZJONI MA NTREBHITX MILL PN TA. ZGUR.
U X'SALVA EFA? EFA KAXXA MIMLIJA FLUS SAB ,FROTT TAL GHAQAL TA GVERNIJIET LABURISTI SAB U MELA L IMBARAZZ LI QED TGHID INT. X ICELANDERS MIN HA L PARIR TA JOSEPH MUSCAT. NAHSEB INT QED TARA MINN NAHHA TA NET TV TA LI KOLLOX ILELLEX META HLIEF GHAKS MA HAWX MA JGHIDUX. OHROG U STAQSI HALLI TKUN TAF X'HAJJA SABIHA BIX XOGHOL JIGRI WARAJNA U BIR RUBINI QEGHDIN NGHIXU? GHAL KLIEM SABIH BISS TINQALAW INTOM TAL PN.
clive borg
Jan 27th 2010, 12:39
@ Peter Shaw
mela ma offrewlekx xol fi smart city! oops sry ghada ma nbnietx!
still jekk tista issib oportunita barra hija ahjar imma mhux kulhadd isiba facli biex jaqbad u jitlaq u jsifer u jsib xol barra minn malta... if you can go its an experiece for you but youll need to find a job overseas...
louise vella
Jan 27th 2010, 12:39
Can the NGOs still say that Malta needs illegal immigrants to do the work the Maltese no longer want to do? Can the NGOs still claim Malta needs illegal immigrants because of its ageing population?
With so many Maltese unemployed do we need foreigners to compete with Maltese workers for jobs?
A Zahra
Jan 27th 2010, 12:32
We are just experiencing the failure of laisser faire capitalism. Just like communism has failed so will an uncontrolled totally capitalist ideology which puts profit and capital efficiency at the center of all decisions.
The EU and Malta needs to start enforcing controls, and seriously review it's position on the globalisation of trade. The solution to these problems is a revaluation of how the economy operates and how wealth gets redistibuted within the european society.
We need sharp incentives to bring back the income redistributing industries to Europe and put hard felt pressure on China and the likes that unless they start endorsing the values of human rights and sustainabilty then there is no place for further co-operation in trade.
Globalisation is just leading to one situation the concentration of wealth to few individuals and the globalisation of poverty to the vast majorities whichever the country they are in.
C.Scerri Mrs.M.Micallef Basildon UK
Jan 27th 2010, 12:27
Not even our illegal immigrants and refugees are begging let alone Maltese!
These figures are overestimated - if you see the article correctly - the survey is taken on a sample of person aged 15 - 65 with the question, that fitted the following criteria:
UNEMPLOYMENT: This comprises all persons above 15 years of age who, during the reference week, satisfied the
following
without work
actively seeking work during the previous 4 weeks ,
currently available for work – available to start work within 2 weeks of the reference week.
All 15 year olds, and those above 61 and quite a number of those between 16-24, should fit one of these criteria i.e. without work, but are they really unemployed? As far as I know, obligatory schooling is till 16 with a large number of 16-24 year olds attending some form of tertiary education whilst the age of pension is 61!
Apart from this, can these figures really compare with the standard of living that we see around us?
Peter Shaw
Jan 27th 2010, 12:24
@Clayton Bartolo-I am an IT Graduate with 3 years experience in the field and I have spent 12 months searching for an IT job without success. I am receiving unemployment benefits instead of contributing.But it is not my fault.
This is really a disgusting situation for me!! I have had enough and am searching for IT opportunities abroad.
clive borg
Jan 27th 2010, 12:19
mela 12,000 unemployed,
tixel it-tv fuq in-net hlief xol, xol , xol ma tismax fuq l-spots taghhom....
tlett kwarti tan-nies imhadma b'paga minima
umbad Gonzi jigi jghidli ha jgib ix-xol ghalina u ghal uliedna jekk mhux ukoll ghal ulied uliedna - jekk laqas biss ghandna ghalina kif se jkun hemm ghal uliedna, niqfu nahdmu ahna!
umbad hemm eluf ta imigranti li vera trid tghinhom imma qed johdulna xgholna u jwaqqaw ir-rati tax-xol taghna, u viva Gonzi ejdilhom jaddu sa hawn jigu jahdmu maghna!
Joe Vella
Jan 27th 2010, 12:17
@ Clayton Bartolo
Eddie Fenech Adami saved Malta from a total financial and economic meltdown as happened in Iceland. Poor Icelanders took Joseph Muscat advice. Facts speak louder then your rhetoric and that of the Gloom and Doom Crowd. When is the Gloom and Doom crowd stop to take the Maltese Electorate as idiots; as if the the Electorate doesn't know what is happening out there in the real world. My friend, keep seeing in the world as seen through the lenses of Super One.
KARL TANTI
Jan 27th 2010, 12:05
CLAYTON BARTOLO
ISSA? KATASTROFU.
PAR IDEJN SODI QATT MA KIEN HEMM CLAYTON, PAR IDEJN SODI GIETU F'MOHHU F'XI MASS MEETING BIEX JIKKONVINCI. AHJAR NIEQAF HAWN ....
Christopher Ebejer
Jan 27th 2010, 12:03
Well and we still want to integrate thousands of illegal Immigrants in our work force!!
No wonder we are living in a whole mess!!
Charmaine Chetcuti
Jan 27th 2010, 12:02
One should ask how many of these 12,000 unemployed are actually employable?? How many of them are on the unemployment registry because they are actively looking for a job and not because of the social benefits they are entitled to???
What is the government prepared to do to cut abuse? Or the loss in votes makes such actions not worth it?
T. Camilleri
Jan 27th 2010, 11:58
Why do we have 12,000 Maltese citizens unemployed and we are giving foreigners and illegal immigrants permits to work in Malta?
This is what eu membership means.
This is how the people have been taken for a ride.
This is why we have every right and duty towards ourselves, our children and our country to leave the eu whatever the political parties say.
Joseph Cauchi
Jan 27th 2010, 11:57
When Malta is facing such a precarious situation in employment, is it wise to continue keeping our “doors” wide open for the illegal immigrants?
JC.
Mario De Bono
Jan 27th 2010, 11:50
Clayton, are u livng in cuckoo land? There is a uge recesion on, Thank God we just have 12,000 unemployed. It coul dbe much worse. Your comments are just puerile MLP inspired rantings.
Mrs.M.Micallef Basildon UK
Jan 27th 2010, 11:43
Oh dear thats alot of people unemployed for a small island such as ours, is it back to begging again then, same as i often seen in London,young chaps squatting on a cold bridge asking for the price of a cup of tea, nearby is always a small puppy, thats terrible state of affairs in this day-&age.
Clayton Bartolo
Jan 27th 2010, 11:37
U darba kien hemm xi hadd li qalilna li jekk in-numru ta' nies qeghda jaqbez is-7000 ikun dizastru ghal pajjiz. Tiftakru min kien?? Mela allura x'ghandna llum, fejn ghandna kwazi d-doppju ta' dan l-ammont?? Prova cara ta' kemm Gonzi & Co. fallew f'dak li suppost kellhom jaghmlu... Prova cara ta' kemm il-par idejn sodi tilfu l-kontroll mhux biss tal-Partit fih innifsu izda tal-pajjiz.
Spiccajna gejna f'sitwazzjoni fejn haddiehor qieghed ihenn ghalina u jtuna ftit iktar zmien sabiex nirrangaw is-sitwazzjoni tal-FINANZI FIS-SOD ta' pajjizna - http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100127/local/eu-to-give-malta-extra-year-to-narrow-the-deficit . U tibqa ssib dawk l-oqbra mbajda li xorta jibqghu ifahhru lil Gvern ghal mod ta' kif qieghed imexxi l-pajjiz.
P.S. ghal dawk li ma jiftakrux min kien dak il-bniedem li semmejt iktar 'il fuq, qieghed nirreferi ghal dak il-bniedem li qalilna li se jsolvi l-qtil ta' Karen Grech u Raymond Caruana (izda minn dan ma sar xejn), dak li fi zmienu ntqal li d-dejn ihallsuh uliedna u ulied uliedna (qisu kien jaf x'kien gej fil-futur) u dak li dan l-ahhar gie onorat minn Franza (ghall-profezija li ghamel fuq id-dejn nahseb, lol). Iva sewwa hsibtu, Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami - jigifieri EFA qieghed jirridikola lil dan il-gvern ukoll.
Veru Pajjiz immexxi minn Gvern tal-Mickey Mouse!!!
Clayton Bartolo
Jan 27th 2010, 11:25
And what about those 7000 jobs that were created?? lOOl....I saw it on a bill board last year. I guess not much of job opportunities are being created. So please go and study IT.