The Malta Independent 5 December 2021, Sunday

Migration: Malta carrying 'disproportionate' burden - Minister Bartolo
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Malta is carrying a disproportionate burden, being on the forefront of managing irregular migration along the Central Mediterranean, Minister for Foreign and European Affairs...

latest comment from PeterWolf, 04/12/2021 11:40: Pope Franziscus told us, that the migrants are treated as slaves. But slaves have a value, so we should be able to sell them to other countries. Why is that not possible?
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Grech does not exclude Opposition boycott of Parliament in protest against Speaker

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said Saturday that he does not exclude that the Opposition would boycott Parliament in protest at the way in which the Speaker acts as a gatekeeper for the government....

latest comment from C Xerri, 04/12/2021 11:34: "Grech does not exclude Opposition boycott of Parliament in protest against Speaker" Trying to make matter more difficult for the PN to get people's support although it may be a good platform for the PN to go in the international fora to blame the Government for lack of democracy as it is acting in the absence of an Opposition.
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Updated: Captain Morgan drops plans for Balluta jetty

Captain Morgan has decided not to build the Balluta jetty and is evaluating alternative sites after listening to the public’s concerns, the company said in a statement Saturday. The...

latest comment from odomos, 04/12/2021 11:27: "Captain Morgan has taken the responsible decision not to proceed with the building of the jetty in the Balluta area and we hope to identify an alternative location, in consultation with the St Julian’s council and relative NGOs.” That's the way I like it!
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Two men grievously injured as cars crash into wall, tree

Two men were grievously injured in the past hours in separate accidents that took place in Floriana and Naxxar, the police said. At 6pm on Friday, a 28-year-old man of St Paul’s Bay lost...

latest comment from Need for greed, 04/12/2021 09:14: Are the government checking the vehicles that are shipped here because there seems to be a fault in a lot of them that suddenly makes them crash or overturn? Funny thing is that really bad crashes we rarely hear anything about court judgments if there are any?
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Malta should support cleaner Mediterranean Sea through Emission Control Area - BirdLife

A proposal to declare the Mediterranean Sea an area where ships are obliged to switch to a cleaner fuel has so far gained the support of various Mediterranean states, with Malta still not declaring...

latest comment from baslajewgidra, 04/12/2021 09:31: Hurds Bank is outside our territorial waters and so far we cannot claim sovereign rights. But what is happening in that nearby area has serious environmental and dirty money transit point consequence which must be our direct serious concern. It is the centre for contraband fuel transfer, general contraband exchange, dirty money deals and transfer of illegal immigrants besides the pollution which ships congregating there is causing . We should assert our environmental and financial control and custodial rights over it . Incidentally it is also an excellent place to install a large floating wind farm which could supply an important part of our energy needs. We should as a first step strengthen our naval force to regularly patrol those waters and ensure that nothing illegal or deleterious to us takes place in that area.
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TMID Editorial: Tourism and the elephant in the room

It was on Thursday that Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo announced another government strategy: this time one for the tourism industry between 2021 and 2030. Bartolo described the...

latest comment from Gee Mike, 04/12/2021 09:47: Cranes dust digging ferries umbrellas caravans and marinas. Relax by the pool at Your Hotel with some luck, but it is probably cleaner quieter better and cheaper at home, so why would anyone want to come here? To watch historical niches stick in concrete facades?
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Libya's foreign minister slams European migration policy

Libya’s foreign minister on Friday criticized a system of deterring migrants from reaching European shores that she argued fails to address the root of the problem and has so far only served the...

latest comment from Charles Zahra, 04/12/2021 07:57: Libya should use its military forces on their borders to stop these illegal immigrants from entering their country and not as they are doing helping these illegal immigrants to enter their country so the corrupt government officials with the help of the human traffickers make millions out of this human trafficking trade. If Libya want to help these illegal immigrants they should ask their Muslim very RICH countries to take them in and not encourage them to reach Europe. The deportation by the Mediterranean Muslim countries is to send as many Muslims as they can as there aim is to turn Europe into a Muslim Empire. Those illegal immigrants that enter Libya are doing so on their own free will so whatever happens to them its their problem not of the European people who don't want these Muslim illegal immigrants in their countries. Why are the RICH MUSLIM countries not taking in these Muslim illegal Immigrants or even they don't want them in their countries?
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Bartolo calls for sound political leadership to calm current turbulent political climate

Minister for Foreign and European Affairs Evarist Bartolo has called for sound political leadership to calm the current turbulent political climate. Minister Bartolo said we again need détente...

latest comment from Francis Saliba, 04/12/2021 09:51: Let us start with these excellent proposals by adopting them locally in this be(k)nighted island with its corrupt government specialising in corruption and unpunished organised criminality.
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133 new Covid-19 cases reported as hospitalisations up by 4

133 new cases of Covid-19 cases were reported by health authorities on Friday, as the higher number of cases continued. 75 people have also recovered from the virus, meaning that Malta currently...

latest comment from A Micallef, 03/12/2021 20:16: Isn't it remarkable how we were told where the infections did not come from but we were never told where they did come from? An event of several days that boasted photos of everyone in close contact without masks, and allegedly without vaccine certificate checks, and we are assured no infections happened there. Then we wonder why and how there is so much lack of respect for the health safeguarding rules by the public!
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Montenegro parliament votes to open inquiry into Mozura wind farm project

Montenegro’s parliament has voted to form an Inquiry Committee to investigate the Mozura wind farm project, which has been implicated in corruption allegations from the outset.  In a...

latest comment from Francis Saliba, 04/12/2021 02:55: That is what Malta does not need. That its corrupt government be accused of corruption and by Montenegro of all countries!' When will Malta ever reach the absolute bottom of the corruption cesspit?
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