Unemployment drops to 5%

Pat Hobson

Oct 4th 2010, 21:01

@Castillo et al. White Knights in Shining armour defending the PN. Next time you write please quote what is your position in the PN party. Mr. Castillo, a PN Councillor, Gianninu Salibu???? George Scicluna....

l fenech

Oct 4th 2010, 19:13

Halli jghaddi is-sajf mbghad erga ibda ghod.

George Scicluna

Oct 4th 2010, 18:27

For this reason all the Maltese citizens have the right to re-elect our PN in government for more and more decades to come!!! Poor poor Joe. He will be known in the lejbir's history li kien l iktar leader li dam l inqas, and that lead his party to the most devastating defeat in all history.

R.Borg

Oct 4th 2010, 16:58

It said that 6,589 were registered as unemployed in August 2010.
BUT IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THESE WERE UNSUCCESSFUL TO FIND A JOB IN MALTA?
But how do our illegal immigrants find one?
But how do the many legal european citizens in Malta find one?
Could it be that many of these look upon the unemployment benefit as a sort of salary and doing nothing?
But is it possibile that these are doing no job/jobs?
U HALLUNA!

Gianninu Saliba

Oct 4th 2010, 16:17

Who said that the PL is the "Partit tal-haddiema"? Joseph, the true 'Partit tal-haddiema' is the Nationalist Party. Joseph, was there ever one single day when unemployement dropped to 5% under any Labour Government? With the Korpi tax-xoghol and all, unemployement under Labour was even higher than when the UK Government decided to retrench thousands from the dockyard in the 60's. But then again, those were also a safe pair of hands that not only managed to contain the dockyard crises but also acquired our nation's Independence.

Anthony Castillo

Oct 4th 2010, 16:06

@ Pat Hobson, It looks like either you're dreaming or you're mixing this time with when there was the Labour government in power long, long ,very long time ago under Karnenu Mifsud Bonnici, when in the last year of thier administration which is a long time ago may be you forgot they emplyed over 8000 at one time to get thier vote. Those days are finished for good, my friend.

Pat Hobson

Oct 4th 2010, 14:55

This was expected. The decrease in unemployment was due to about 3,800 being employed in the civil service! Nothing to be surprised about. Who knows how many will end up with the civil service by the time of the elections?

T Sillato

Oct 4th 2010, 13:16

Lead item on ONE News tonight - hahaha

Anthony Castillo

Oct 4th 2010, 13:08

Well done: This is what we really want to hear, the results of real strong PAIR OF HANDS and the result of joining the EU against all the wishes that mainly one of the pioneers Joseph Muscat wanted. This is something that the Maltese people have to really consider, the nice talking and promises once you're in the opposition it is very easy to say then done. The real facts means everything like we are seeing being done, just about full employment compare to other major big EU countries, the economy is also one of the best in the EU, although certain union went to protest in Brussels, hopefully they explain to their colleagues that the conditions in Malta could'nt be any better especially in the social services. Thank you GONZI PN.

d.attard

Oct 4th 2010, 12:31

to better analyze this statistic one would perhaps need to also know movement in the gainfully occupied and breakdown between full and part time employment. August being the peak tourist season one would be keen to know if this is a trend reflecting strong structural improvement or if it seasonal.