Tag: Food
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UPDATED: Industrial production keeps going down in Malta: exports increase due to oil exports
According to the latest NSO statistics, industrial production keeps going down in Malta with March industrial output decreasing by y 1.4% compared to the previous month and by 3.6% compared to March of 2025. The largest decrease was registered in the production of food and beverages, down by 11.9%. Industrial production was also down with…
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Let them eat tranquility (part 2): Malta with the fourth highest food prices in the EU
It’s remarkable how incredibly out of touch and disorientated the Labour government and its MPs have become. This should be expected among a group of MPs in a criminal organisation whose main and primary interest its own enrichment and the enrichment of its own members. None of the Labour MPs are able to speak honestly…
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Retail price index remains flat in February: expected to go higher for March
According to the latest NSO statistics, the retail price index for February came at 2.5% confirming other readings that inflation for February remained flat. The reading also confirms that inflation remained flat due to a reduction of prices in several items including in clothing as food kept going higher. The inflation reading for March is…
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Food inflation persisting in Malta: HICP for February static
According to the latest statistics by NSO, the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices remained flat for February at 2.3%, however this was only because several items such as information technology came down in prices while the regular inflationary pressures on food, beverages and restaurants are still increasing. Inflation slowed down in Europe and Malta at…
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Food prices keep pushing inflation higher in Malta
The price increases rate for October kept going higher, increasing from 2.4% in September to 2.7% in October as measured by the retail price index, according to the latest NSO statistics. Food remains the main item causing inflationary pressure among products and services in Malta, pushing as a result inflation above the EU average. Inflation…
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Inflation in Malta remains above Euro 2.1% average as food prices keep increasing
Malta’s annual inflation rate stood at 2.5% in October 2025, outpacing the Euro area average of 2.1%, according to the latest Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) data. Price movements across key sectors show a mixed picture, with strong upward pressures from services and food. Food prices have consistently lead the charge in Malta’s inflationary…
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Retail Price Index confirms inflation in Malta is slowing down but food prices still going up
According to the latest statistics by the NSO, the retail price index has confirmed last week’s reading of the consumer price index showing that inflation in Malta has slowed down in September but food prices kept going up. Inflation dropped from 2.7% in August to 2.4% in September with food coming in the second place…
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Retail Price Index keeps going up with food prices
The retail price index has kept moving upwards mainly thanks to food prices in August confirming this year’s trend with the HICP index, according to the latest NSO report. The retail price index increased by 2.7%, higher than its 2.4% rate in August. Food was the largest contributor with up 0.95% of the price change.…
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More than 100 aid trucks enter Gaza – United Nations
According to the United Nations, up to 100 aid trucks have entered Gaza today from Egypt after Israel announced a mobilisation of aid to Gaza. Israel has blocked humanitarian aid to Gaza since last March causing a famine and a rising infant mortality rate as a result. The UN estimates that up to 600 trucks…
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Israel claims that UNRWA is lying, but Israel’s own official statistics may confirm the ongoing famine in Gaza
Israel has denied claims by UNRWA that it is blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and stated that it has allowed up to 4,400 trucks enter Gaza with humanitarian aid in the last two months. If Israel’s figure is actually correct, the number of trucks allowed into Gaza falls significantly short of the minimum number of…
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UNRWA says that food is available for all of Gaza for but Isreal is blocking it
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has issued a statement saying that it has food available for all of the people in Gaza for the next three months in its distribution sites in Egypt. However, the UNRWA added that this aid is being blocked from entering the Gaza…
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Food imports of 1938
Here’s the Malta Blue Books imports and exports section of 1938, but I’m posting this mainly for the interesting selection of sources of food imports. Of course, there is the overwhelming presence of Britain and the British Empire. Importing food in Malta during the Second World War was a very gruelling task and convoys had…
