timesofmalta.com newsletter - 28 Jan 2018

Copyright © 2018 timesofmalta.com Newsletter for Sunday, 28 Jan 2018 [Times of Malta]( [Progress Press]( National - [Three-car collision leaves at least six hospitalised]( At least six people were rushed to hospital on Sunday morning following a three-car collision in Burmarrad. At least two people were trapped inside their vehicles following the crash and needed Civil Protection Department expertise to be lifted... - [Where are the trapping sites?]( Birdlife Malta’s request to obtain the locations of the islands’ 8,000 trapping sites will soon be decided, with the final verdict now awaited after a four-year freedom-of-information battle with the authorities. But the NGO says it will exhaust... - [Two seriously hurt after coming to blows in Birkirkara]( Two men seriously hurt each other in a fight on Saturday evening in Birkirkara, police said on Sunday. The men, who are both aged 45 and who live in Qrendi and Birkirkara, got into an argument on Triq Dom Mauro Inguanez shortly after 7pm. The... - [€10,000: the price for staying on in Malta]( Fadyaa’s* father and husband sat in handcuffs in the small waiting room of a Valletta immigration tribunal last week awaiting their likely fate – deportation. A few feet away stood the businessman who they claim charged them thousands of euros for... - [Today's front pages - Sunday 28 January, 2018]( Good morning. These are the leading stories in this Sunday's local newspapers. The Sunday Times of Malta splashes with 'public land for private gain', highlighting an exposé of a deal whereby a company has been granted public land in Gozo to... World news - [Infant among seven found floating on life raft in Pacific Ocean]( Six adults and an unconscious baby were rescued on Sunday from a life raft in the Pacific Ocean after drifting for four days in the blazing sun without water. The survivors had scrambled onto the small wooden dinghy after the ferry they were... - [French climber rescued on Pakistan's 'Killer Mountain']( After an exhausting night ascent a rescue mission found the French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol on the slopes of Pakistan's treacherous "Killer Mountain", but a Polish climber who had been with her remained missing, Poland's winter climbing team... - [Saudi billionaire released as corruption probe winds down]( Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the kingdom's top international businessmen, was released from detention on Saturday, more than two months after he was taken into custody in a sweeping crackdown on corruption. His... - [Gunmen kill at least 14 in Brazilian nightclub]( Gunmen shot and killed at least 14 people early on Saturday in a crowded dance club in the northeastern Brazil city of Fortaleza, authorities said. At least another six people were injured and are hospitalised in Fortaleza, said Andre Costa, who... - [Massacre as Taliban kill almost 100 in devastating Kabul attack]( A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint in a busy part of the city that was crowded with pedestrians at the time of the... Opinion - [Building the future Valletta - Petra Caruana Dingli]( Valletta has finally been inaugurated as European Capital of Culture for 2018. Despite any controversies and disagreements about the type... - [The Constitution: our common sense of democracy - Austin Bencini]( Over the past weeks there have appeared in this newspaper a number of articles written by Judge Giovanni Bonello, that eminent judge of... - [Solve one puzzle with the clues of another? - Giovanni Bonello]( The case of Charles Demicoli boasts of many firsts. It was the first Maltese case to have been decided by the European Court of Human... - [Is Malta water resilient? - Anne Zammit]( Malta is a small, arid island, with a ballooning economy that is calling for more imported labour. It is not easy to see how the... - [A clear vision for sport - Clifton Grima]( The Labour administration was conscious from the start about the need to provide incentives for sport, aware of its importance to the... Letters - [Gravity concerns]( The piece on gravitational waves (The Sunday Times of Malta, January 14) is a fine article and it is wonderful to read that scientists... - [The Emperor has no clothes]( For the past few months, and for much of 2017, it seemed that much of the public had wisened up to the fact that the Emperor had no clothes. - [Marsascala council should make practical proposals]( I read John Baptist Camilleri’s letter about Marsascala with interest, (‘Give Marsascala and its residents a break’, The Sunday Times of... - [The Triton Fountain]( My sisters and I would like to set the record straight regarding the Triton Fountain outside Valletta City. When the call for submissions... - [The VGH contract]( Did the Labour MPs know the full contents of the VGH contract when they approved it in Parliament? If they didn’t, then they were very... Sport - [Updated: Liverpool dumped out of the FA Cup]( Wigan Athletic pulled off the big shock of the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday as the team from the third-tier of English football... - [Juve beat self-destructing Chievo to go top of Serie A]( Juventus went top of Serie A on Saturday, at least for 16 hours, with a 2-0 win at Chievo, who had only themselves to blame after two... - [Brady focused on preparation, glad to see Gronk back at practice]( Tom Brady isn't looking to reinvent the wheel with the clocking ticking down until the New England Patriots face their biggest test of... - [Live: Football transfer news and rumours - January 27]( The winter transfer window is less than a week away and the timesofmalta.com SportsDesk is back with you to follow all the latest gossip... - [Narrow win for Celtic over Hibernian]( Leigh Griffiths scored against former club and boyhood heroes Hibernian for the first time to give Celtic a narrow 1-0 Ladbrokes... Business News - [Investigative interviewing skills in practice]( Ian Ross, former UK police officer, law lecturer, now a global compliance and risk specialist will be delivering a two-day course... - [Two-year sponsorship deal]( Malta Freeport CEO Alex Montebello (right) and BirżebbuÄ¡a Aquatic & Sports Club president George Farrugia signed a two-year sponsorship... - [First Maltese to complete UK retirement provision course]( Deborah Schembri has become the first Maltese to complete an advanced diploma in retirement provision with the UK Pensions Management... - [Coca-Cola announces new global plan to help create a world without waste]( The Coca-Cola company said that it is fundamentally reshaping its approach to packaging with a global goal to help collect and recycle... - [Awards to honour distinct businesses]( Nominations for the 2018 Malta EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award are now open and will run until February 9. The competition is open to... Blogs - [The rot is everywhere]( They say that everyone who lived through the assassination of John F Kennedy remembers exactly where they were the minute they were told... - [Enabling gender violence?]( It’s official. This country’s political system has not only lost the plot but also the entire script to sanity. So prurient is our MPs'... - [Women are not expected to stay quiet]( My first reaction when it was first suggested to me that I should write a blog on Times of Malta was, where do I start? What shall the... - [Dedicated with bitterness to those who don’t shuffle their feet in protest]( Some things in life live forever in your heart. Perhaps a glance, a touch or a few words. Even a smile can be etched never to... - [We are not the centre of corruption]( Ever since the dawn of mankind in Malta, we have been special. Our megalithic temples prove this. We are the chosen few. We are the... 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