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An amendment to make it possible to enforce a law that makes it compulsory on employers of more than 20 people to include 2% of disabled people in their workforce or pay a contribution was moved in Parliament on Tuesday by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana. The Nationalist Opposition said it will be supporting the amendment. Moving the second reading of a bill on the employment of people with disability, Caruana said that although it was currently compulsory for employers to include disabled peopl...

Godfrey Farrugia tells committee chair Silvio Parnis it is MPs’ duty to create non-judgemental platforms for discussion on abortion

Parents who have adopted children from India have appealed for compassion, understanding and support after the tragic story of a Maltese man who contracted COVID-19 as he went to pick up his newly-adopted daughter from New Delhi and died just before he was medically evacuated to Malta. “What people don’t understand is that we go to pick up our children. The pandemic will not stop us. If anything, it will make you want to get your child home safely. They say you will go to hell and back for ...

The reform of pre-1995 rents being carried out by the government protects tenants from eviction or rent increases that they cannot afford, while also handing justice to landlords, Prime Minister Robert Abela told parliament on Monday. He said that the reform made by the previous government in 2009, on paper, offered protection from eviction and rent rises to tenants, but successive court judgements found it breached the rights of the landlords, rendering the so-called reform not worth the paper...

PN says Labour Party must apologise for wrongdoing The Nationalist Party says that while an apology will not be enough, it is the first step in the right direction 6 April 2021, 2:59pm by Laura Calleja The Labour Party should apologise for government officials wrongdoing, Nationalist Party candidate Ivan Bartolo insisted. However, he warned that an apology may not be enough but was a start. Speaking at a press conference alongside PN candidate Paula Mifsud Bonnici, Bartolo said an apology...

Around 9,700 Properties In Malta And Gozo Are Subject To Pre-1995 Rent Laws Share: There are around 9,700 properties in Malta and Gozo that are subject to pre-1995 rent laws, Minister Roderick Galdes has revealed. Galdes announced the figure following a parliamentary question from MP Ivan Bartolo, with the issue currently under scrutiny from both the government and the opposition. Prime Minister Robert Abela recently announced major reforms to the pre-1995 rent agreements. Prior to this, landl...

Xtra on TVM | Social Accommodation Minister Roderick Galdes and Opposition spokesperson Ivan Bartolo cross swords over pre-1995 rents reform

For every unmarried mother there’s usually an unmarried father If the point is for society to pass self-righteous judgement on these single mothers, surely, we have more than enough of that already Josanne Cassar 15 February 2021, 7:46am The only message I got from that PQ, however, is that a lot of mothers are doing their best to raise their children single-handedly, while too many fathers are blithely bringing children into the world but are then conveniently let off the hook A PQ this wee...

Police’s cybercrime unit involved in 4,500 investigations since 2017 Cybercrime unit tasked with investigations related to computer misuse, fraud, pornography and sexual offences 25 January 2021, 5:08pm by Karl Azzopardi The police’s Cybercrime Unit was involved in 4,508 investigations since 2017. The information was tabled in parliament by National Security Minister Byron Camilleri in reply to a question by Nationalist MP Ivan Bartolo. Apart from its role in investigating online crime, cy...

The Nationalist Party has called on the government to take action over the concerns of thousands of tenants in rented tenements who fear being evicted on the st