The Malta Independent 4 December 2020, Friday

Number of new cases dips below 100 mark, 128 recover

The number of new Covid-19 cases has dipped below the 100 mark, with 96 new cases being reported on Thursday, new figures published by the health authorities show. 128 people meanwhile have...

latest comment from M'hiniex CUC, u INT?, 04/12/2020 04:16: “Prevention is better than cure” No doubt about that for sure. So, this Christmas, do yourself assure To stay home safe and secure!!! And don’t let anyone otherwise lure!!! Show that you're responsible and mature!!!
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MEIA, major cultural figures blast ‘dangerous’ libel judgement against Pia Zammit

The Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association and a host of major figures within the cultural sector have blasted a judgement on a libel case filed by actress Pia Zammit which ruled that an...

latest comment from Peter Paul Ellul, 04/12/2020 07:21: Those who came out attacking the Court for the judgement dismissing Pia Zammit's claims either have NOT READ the judgement or want to MISLEAD. Pia Zammit's claims were rejected by the court because she wanted to chastise a newspaper for taking her to ask over her BACKSTAGE posing and the taking of said photo. The Court did not buy into Pia Zammit's stupid argument that the newspaper was taking advantage of her part in an Allo! Allo! theatre performance and using this to portray her as a Nazi sympathizer. The article in question took Pia Zammit to task for BACKSTAGE SILLYNESS IN A NAZI COSTUME. The court picked this important distinction from the witnesses to the case, in particular where one witness said that backstage tomfoolery is commonplace after some performance and this photo seemed to show this kind of behaviour after an Allo! Allo! performance. In its evaluation the Court said that it had no doubt that Pia Zammit is NOT a Nazi sympathizer and the gist of the article was not to portray her as such as wrongly (deceitfully?) claimed by herself. Rather the article was taking her to task for her backstage tomfoolery (even if commonplace in other circumstances) in a Nazi costume. The Court upheld that the editor had every right to question this behaviour.
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Updated: Prisons director apologises for saying greatest danger journalists face is a sprained ankle

The greatest danger in your life as a journalist is that you might sprain your ankle while walking down a step or get a shock while turning on the computer, Prison Director Alexander Dalli said in the...

latest comment from J.C.Borg, 03/12/2020 18:33: Years ago this was called Corradino Correctional Facility (CCF), now what shall we call it under this guy????
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Caruana Galizia family action for damages hearing put off pending Theuma’s summons notification

The hearing regarding an action for damages filed by the Caruana Galizia family against five men accused of their involvement in her murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia was put off as Melvin Theuma was...

latest comment from scott brown, 03/12/2020 20:19: What a farce!!! Isn't Theuma supposed to be under 24/7 police supervision? So where exactly are the police being posted?
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Emergency road works in Xemxija Hill scheduled for the next seven days, starting tomorrow
Photo: Infrastructure Malta

Infrastructure Malta is informing the public that, as of tomorrow, it will be carrying out some emergency road works in part of the Xemxija Hill which will carry on until 11 December.  This...

latest comment from Joey Falzon, 03/12/2020 22:57: about BL**DY time....the road has been in this state for quite sometime and left to deteriorate to this state...SHAME on IM
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Is Malta still a good place to start an iGaming business?

Most people who have tried their luck in some of the biggest online casinos in the world have seen the small license logo at the bottom. Malta has been the best place to legally open an online...

latest comment from Vani, 03/12/2020 22:53: The author of this blurb has somehow managed to ignore a whole herd of elephants in the room that is composed of the dearth of US dollar correspondent banks, the looming Moneyval crisis, the political and business bed-sharing, the institutionalized corruption............ But yes, lets dig our heads in the sand and keep on believing that Malta is the best in the universe, why don't we?
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Mater Dei Toxicology labs place in top three in international case study performance score

The Toxicology Laboratories at the Mater Dei Pathology Department have placed in the top three lab category in an LGC Standards External Quality Control test. This was for a Performance Score...

latest comment from baslajewgidra, 03/12/2020 19:29: Well done. We have top class doctors and researchers in lab medicine. We must take advantage of the advances in virus knowledge gained as a result of this Covid pandemic and thus be first movers and show our abilities and capabilities in exploiting the advances and potential of microbiology in the new economy. I would think that asap we should establish with the help of foreign researchers and companies a research institute and encourage development businesses in Gozo to exploit this new knowledge on viruses both beneficial and harmful to research and develop new medicine and treatments for humans , animals and plants as well as environmental products for industry and the green economy. Ministers Miriam Dalli and Chris Fearne do take note.
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TMID Editorial: Infrastructure - Opening unopened roads

It was a little less than six weeks ago that Prime Minister Robert Abela “inaugurated” the Santa Lucija tunnels project.  Infrastructure Malta said, in a press release issued on the...

latest comment from Angus Black, 03/12/2020 13:01: In a land where contracts are handed out to party stooges, with under-the-table commissions flowing unabated, where commencement and completion dates are non existent or written in very small print, purposely ignored, then this sort of thing happens with great regularity. The PM cannot be excused for inaugurating incomplete projects and will continue to do so, because he is using these non-events as propaganda tools. When a government has no plans, no long term vision and when it lost control of taxpayers' money, then chaos ensues. The a PM lies about the seriousness of Covid-19 and fails to order mitigating actions to bring the pandemic under control, then the public will pay with money and lives.
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EU pushes for 'right to disconnect' from work at home

European Union lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of a “right to disconnect” from the internet and email, with around one third of people now working from home across the 27-nation bloc...

latest comment from Mary Attard, 04/12/2020 07:14: Many self employed people work 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If you don,t like your job seek an other one -8 to 5- work less and get paid less too. What''s the problem.?
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