The Malta Independent 28 February 2020, Friday

Police scandal: Traffic branch recruits inspector, 12 officers to start filling depleted ranks

The Police Traffic Branch has recruited an inspector and 12 police officers in a bid to replenish its depleted ranks after more than three-fourths of its manpower were lost to a corruption scandal....

latest comment from leon 1, 28/02/2020 13:02: When will the traffic police who allegedly have screwed the Malta taxpayers be brought to Court?? Are you still cooking some form of excuse to try to defend their actions as has happened under the regime of Muscat in protecting corrupt persons.
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Daphne public inquiry – 'I don't understand much, but I share items for the sake of partisanism'

Another sitting of the Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry will be held this morning. Ray Barbara, a close aide to former prime minister Joseph Muscat, and Kenneth Camilleri, one time part of...

latest comment from blakantunieri, 28/02/2020 13:48: Is Corrine Vella, DCG's sister employed with the inquiry board? This CID is always the first witness of the day.
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Othello ‘blackfacing’: Herrera says artists should have ‘elbow space’, freedom of expression

Culture Minister Jose Herrera believes in providing artists the needed elbow space and freedom of expression and feels he should only intervene at extremism and when the law is broken. Herrera was...

latest comment from Angus Black, 28/02/2020 14:23: In Canada Prime Minister Trudeau bowed to public pressure and apologized for painting his face black in a school play years and years ago and not given any 'elbow room' to escape from close scrutiny. In Malta, minister Herrera gives local actor elbow room to paint his face black. Without going into the merits of either case, what is evident is that standards in Canada differ significantly from Malta's [and vice versa] even if both Malta and Canada are 'cosmopolitan' and harbour immigrants whose skin colours are as varied as the colours of a rainbow. I wonder which country is the more progressive. Just an observation.
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Coronavirus: Police detail for quarantined persons, MPA calls for individual protective clothing

Police officers are being detailed to the homes of people who are under quarantine after travelling to countries affected by the Coronavirus, the Malta Police Association said. In a Facebook...

latest comment from Percy Pace, 28/02/2020 10:10: Are the police officers being made to pay for their protective gear.......as are doctors in the private sector?
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New virus has infected 83,000 globally, caused 2,800 deaths

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 83,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the...

latest comment from Kenneth Cassar, 28/02/2020 09:20: If you take the number of Coronavirus cases as a percentage of the country's population, you'll deduce that the odds of any Maltese person contracting the virus while on holiday is close to zero.
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Farmers file judicial protest over Maghtab land expropriation plans

Twenty-five farmers whose livelihoods depend on fields in the Magħtab area have filed a judicial protest before the First Hall of the Civil Court aiming at safeguarding their fields from a...

latest comment from Joe A Borg, 28/02/2020 13:27: This is PROOF of one government after the other failure to truly address the waste issue. It is very easy for these idiots with a capital P to simply bulldoze people out of their land than tackle the real issue! Shame on all of you!
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Indepth: Appointment of Police Commissioner shouldn’t become ‘public spectacle’

Internal "organisational justice" needs to be the first step which takes place for people to start regaining faith in the police force after it was rocked by a recent overtime scandal, lawyer and...

latest comment from HappyNow, 28/02/2020 07:41: Appointment of Police Commissioner shouldn’t become ‘public spectacle’ ... Er, so it should be decided over rabbit and some Petrus wine in some dark back-alley restaurant then ??? maybe with a gift of a watch or two.... or a padding of a Dubai account or two ???
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All negative: 22 people swabbed, tested in Malta for Coronavirus

All 22 people who were swabbed for Coronavirus in Malta in the past few days tested negative, the health authorities said....

latest comment from R Borg, 28/02/2020 11:02: What are the numbers to call in case of suspected cases and what is the web-site? the person giving it out on the radio wasn't clear and rushed it out. There should be clear notices giving the number, place to go and web-site.
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