The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) reiterates that the relevant authorities must be adequately resourced and instructed to ensure that the rules related to COVID-19 and Licences are enforced across the board on an equal standing.
The Hotels and Restaurants are already paying a hefty price due to the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic so it is important that Government focuses concrete action to ensure those betraying collective responsibility efforts are penalized as otherwise all the sacrifices borne by law abiding operators and citizens will serve for nothing.
MHRA consistently supports reasonable measures which aim to ensure a balanced approach to the protection of lives and livelihoods and remains positive that as the roll out of the vaccine keeps progressing according to plan then the economy will kickstart again in the near future.
MHRA however insists that the critical success factor to win over this pandemic does not rest in how many social and economic restrictive measures are set, but rather on the efficiency and effectiveness of enforcement efforts to ensure that the basic measures are borne equally by all. Only in this way those suffering today will start seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, sooner rather than later.