The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers.
All newspapers except
in-Nazzjon lead with the announced staggered reopening of schools next week and the gradual easing of other measures as the number of novel coronavirus cases and hospitalisations continue to fall.
In other stories,
Times of Malta quotes a letter by the president of the Malta Institute of Accountants to its members saying that what the Nexia BT partners allegedly did have turned accountancy into an “inferior grade” profession in the eyes of many.
The Malta Independent says that the number of COVID-19 victims has now reached 400.
L-Orizzont reports a meeting the General Workers’ Union had with Italy’s ambassador to Malta.
Offaly-based Turkish journalist examines a workers soviet set up during the War of Independence
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Journalist Çagdaş Gökbel translated into Turkish this interview he conducted with Liam Cahill about the Limerick Soviet and it appeared in SOL newspaper. );
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THERE are special periods in the history of every nation that are hidden but there are intellectuals who will remind society of these periods that shine light on humanity. Liam Cahill is one of them.
The endless curiosity and childish excitement of the intellectuals are the condition for progressing on this blessed road. The interview you will read is typical of this excitement. Thousands of kilometres away from Turkey, while continuing my research on the history of the Limerick Soviet, I met author Liam Cahill. The moment I contacted Liam, he signed his book and sent it to my address. Thus, while the story of a forgotten revolution is on a long journey at the same time it is com
Government and police union reach agreement over quarantine leave
Members of the police force will no longer lose out on sick leave if they have to undergo quarantine or test positive for COVID-19
17 March 2021, 8:44pm
by Nicole Meilak
An agreement has been reached between the Ministry for Internal Affairs and the Police Officers Union (POU) within the General Workers Union on working conditions relating to compulsory quarantine arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through this agreement, the police will not be losing certain allowances to which they are entitled when they are undergoing a period of compulsory quarantine upon order from the Public Health Authorities or while on sick leave because they are positive for COVID-19.
An agreement has been reached between the government and the Police Officers’ Union on obligatory quarantine.
Through the agreement, police in quarantine will not be losing allowances they are entitled to when in obligatory quarantine, the government said in a statement.
The union, which is a branch of the General Workers’ Union, had ordered its members not to wear a hat or tie and not to shave, if they want, unless they start being granted quarantine leave should they test positive for COVID-19.
It had complained that the days police spent on quarantine were deducted from their sick leave.
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