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National Book Prize 2020: Trevor Zahra conferred lifetime achievement award Watch the ceremony for the National Book Prize here 18 December 2020, 8:06pm The National Book Council yesterday announced the winners of the 2020 National Book Prize for books published in Malta in 2019. The Prize celebrates the highest achievements in literary and research publishing across nine competitive categories. Owing to the extraordinary circumstances, the awards ceremony was held online, and for the very first time broadcast to the public on the National Book Council’s Facebook page and website. The streamed ceremony was hosted by veteran TV broadcaster John Demanuele. In his opening speech, National Book Council (NBC) Executive Chairperson Mark Camilleri noted that 2020 has been a difficult year for the book industry, which was particularly hard-hit by the economic crisis left in the wake of the ongoing global pandemic which followed a period of political turmoil. Nonetheless, publishers and authors have kept to their work, as has the National Book Council with events like the Malta Book Festival.
Staying focused on enhancing our country’s civil rights policy in the midst of a pandemic and its accompanying woes is no easy feat. And, yet, that is precisely what we did last week with the proposed amendments to the divorce law of 2011 that I tabled in parliament. What I have proposed is that couples who are already separated at law may immediately apply for a divorce while those couples who are living separately can, through a joint request, apply for a divorce after six months or after a year in cases in which the parties disagree on the request for divorce.
A waste management strategy I refer to the article entitled ‘Waste management: too little, too late?’ by Daren Cordina (November 29). Aside from the undoubted good intentions of the author, there are several misunderstandings and assumptions that may be based on incomplete information. It is crucial to clarify that although waste to energy technology features prominently in our plans, this is part of a much larger strategy. The ECOHIVE complex will provide holistic waste management solutions including the mentioned waste to energy plant, a material recovery facility for dry recyclables, an organic processing plant with large scale composting capabilities, a new thermal treatment facility with energy generation capabilities, a skip waste management facility, and also an innovative waste transportation system.
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