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Maltese and Gozitan beaches get their Blue Flag for COVID compliance 11 beaches in Malta and Gozo have been awarded the Blue Flag 12 May 2021, 3:33pm by MaltaToday Staff 11 beaches in Malta and Gozo have been awarded the Blue Flag ecolabel by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) International Blue Flag Jury in Copenhagen. The International Jury took into consideration the COVID pandemic and the restrictions on many of the Blue Flag beaches across the world last year. In some specific countries the Blue Flag granted dispensation cases aligned with the non-compliances due to the pa...

Youth seriously injured in Bingemma valley fall The incident occurred at around 11:30am 8 May 2021, 6:05pm A 17 year-old youth from Birkirkara has been seriously injured in a fall at Bingemma valley, Mgarr. The victim is believed to have fallen into the valley. The incident happened at around 11:30am on Saturday, the police said in a statement. Civil Protection Department personnel and a medical team were on site to assist the man. He was later certified as having been grievously injured. The police are investigating the incident.

The restored statue of Saint Joseph will be taken back to its chapel at Comino on Saturday, May 1. The statue, which was probably sculpted in Italy before the w

These are the leading articles in local newspapers this Saturday. Times of Malta focuses its front-page photo on a tragic photo taken at sea, showing a dead asylum seeker slumped over an inflatable ring in the aftermath of a shipwreck off Libya. The newspaper’s top story is a call from the Malta Chamber of SMEs for the government to issue vouchers to be used in shops early, and not wait for restaurants to reopen. In a secondary story, the newspaper notes that Keith Schembri was granted a token €300 by a court that found that his rights were breached by a freezing order, but that his asset...

Reminiscent of the fear of God inspired by the Inquisition; the Maltese Church attempted to manoeuvre the political scene in its favour. So the Labour executive and supporters became accustomed, but never immune to being accused of doing the devil’s work by members of their own community. The curia was convinced that Mintoff’s socialism was a Trojan horse for communism. At the apex of the cold war the extreme sense of paranoia had found its breeding ground amongst Malta’s most conservative echelons. Clergymen, Azzjoni Kattolika and MUSEUM had mobilised women and children, some of whom w...