Speaker’s reason for abstention
Reference is being made to the article entitled ‘Speaker’s abstention has brought “law of the jungle”‘ (May 3).
By way of right of reply, attention is being drawn to the press release issued by the Office of the Speaker on May 3 on the vote taken last week during the last meeting of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
In this press release, Anġlu Farrugia is making reference to the motivation of his vote and to his argumentation that, even though he shared some of Commissioner George Hyzler’s views on the case in question, he could not vote in favour of the report in its entirety because the Standards in Public Life Act does not permit voting in favour of parts of the report and not of others. He, therefore, maintains that, in the particular circumstances of the case in question, he felt that his only option was to abstain.
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Obituary
VELLA. On May 1, at Mater Dei Hospital, KARMNU, of Wardija, St Paul’s Bay, aged 77, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Giovanna, his children Luke and his wife Jacqueline, Joseph, Rosanne and her husband Roland Sollars, his grandchildren Jeremy, Steven and Sarah, Carmen widow of his brother Joe, his wife’s siblings and their respective families, nephews and nieces, other relatives and friends. The funeral cortege leaves Mater Dei Hospital today, Monday, May 3, at 2.15pm, the parish church of Our Lady of Sorrows, St Paul’s Bay, where Mass præsente cadavere will be said at 3pm followed by interment at Ħniena Divina cemetery, St Paul’s Bay. Donations on his behalf to the Society of Christian Doctrine (MUSEUM) would be greatly appreciated. Lord, grant him eternal rest. The family would like to thank the staff at the Cardiac Medical Ward and the Heart Failure Unit of Mater Dei Hospital.
TOLOnews 10pm News 02 May 2021
Senators on Sunday raised questions over recent fires in Kabul, Farah and Herat province that mainly targeted fuel imports, saying there are some hands behind such incidents that seek to harm the country’s economy.
The Ministry of Interior Affairs said that nine people were killed and 14 more were wounded in the major fire at a tanker truck station in the Qala-e-Murad Bek area north of Kabul along the key highway that connects the capital city with northern provinces.
A massive fire that began with a tanker truck carrying fuel in the Shakar Dara district of Kabul along the highway connecting the capital with northern provinces has inflicted heavy damage to vehicles and nearby houses as residents described.
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