timesofmalta.com newsletter - 17 Apr 2018

Copyright © 2018 timesofmalta.com Newsletter for Tuesday, 17 Apr 2018 [Times of Malta]( [Histories of Malta]( National - [Kirkop tunnels closed - motorists urged to avoid the area]( The Kirkop tunnels have been closed because of urgent road works, Transport Malta and the police said. A big traffic jam built up, and motorists were urged to avoid the area. Times of Malta reported last week that concerns had been raised about... - [PD seeks investigation on transfer of part of Mellieħa bypass to developer]( The Democratic Party has called on the Auditor-General to investigate how Transport Malta granted public land - part of the Mellieha bypass - for private residential development. This occurred as part of the process of an application with the... - [PA silent on ‘blanket amnesty’ for fireworks factories]( The Planning Authority has not replied to questions about a controversial reform that would grant illegal fireworks factories a blanket amnesty. In a draft legal notice issued for public consultation earlier this month, the authority proposed... - [Caruana Galizia vigils held in Valletta and six cities around the world]( Hundreds crowded in front of the law courts in Valletta for a vigil to mark six months since the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The event saw a number of speakers address the large crowd which made its way to the makeshift memorial... - [Today's front pages - April 17, 2018]( Good morning, the following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers. Times of Malta quotes the director of the Centre for gender studies as saying that women work the equivalent of a month for free every year because of the gender pay gap. It... World news - [Chemical weapons inspectors still banned from Syrian attack sites]( Independent investigators have been prevented by Syrian and Russian officials from reaching the scene of an alleged chemical attack near the Syrian capital, an official said. The barrier for the inspectors comes days after the US, UK and France... - [Plastic-eating enzyme holds promise in fighting pollution - scientists]( Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could in future help in the fight against pollution. The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or PET - a form of plastic patented in... - [UK supports Prince Charles to succeed Queen as Commonwealth head]( Britain backs Queen Elizabeth's son and heir, Prince Charles, to succeed her as head of the Commonwealth network of 53 mostly former British colonies, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday. "The UK supports the Prince of Wales... - [Turkey warns Greece after hoisting of flag on Aegean islet]( Turkey cautioned on Monday against what it described as Greek provocations in a longstanding dispute in the Aegean Sea, after Ankara said it had removed a Greek flag that had been hoisted over an uninhabited islet. Turkey and Greece are NATO... - [Watch: News headlines from around the world - April 16, 2018]( Saudi Arabia has hinted that it is starting to contemplate life after oil, saying that it has plans to build the world's largest solar power station. In other world news, a string of rapes has sparked protests across India, while in Philadelphia,... Opinion - [Time for revision - Miriam Dalli]( An application for the relocation of a Sliema fuel service station to a plot of land outside the development zone (ODZ) in Luqa was the... - [Balancing the booms - Jordan De Bono]( No matter what one’s political agenda is, it’s hard to argue against the fact that the economy in Malta right now is on a high. - [Brexit Britain’s old friends - Michael Ashcroft]( Britain’s friendship with Malta is so long and so rich that it would be easy to take for granted. The award of the George Cross in 1942... - [Front for censorship - Michael Briguglio]( Labour parades as being progressive, liberal and feminist. Yet it seems to be so only when the interests of oligarchs are not... - [Not just about employers - Arthur Muscat]( Having discarded a first attempt in 2016, officials at the Equality Ministry of Helena Dalli are having another go with amended versions... Letters - [Outspoken Archbishop]( Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna seems to delight in political controversy. His latest foray in the political field was when he retweeted... - [No more trees]( I was lucky to have been born in the 1950s.I enjoyed the 1960s and 1970s but by the1980s I began to realise what we were doing to this... - [Customer care]( I guess the correspondent who was praising Lidl customer “care” was lucky. Four weeks ago, on a Sunday, I purchased an electronic weather... - [Rabat hazard]( I had first sent an e-mail tothe Rabat local council in the last week of February and, to date, my complaint has not been... - [Life in Malta]( I was delighted to read Frank Salt’s Talking Point “Wear and tear success” (April 11). I’ve alluded to this in the past: that boasting... Sport - [Watch: NBA roundup: Sixers extinguish Heat in opener]( Ben Simmons narrowly missed a triple-double, and the Philadelphia 76ers punished the visiting Miami Heat from long range en route to an... - [Watch: NBA roundup: Pacers upset Cavs in opener]( Victor Oladipo scored 32 points, hitting 6 of 9 attempts from 3-point range, to power the Indiana Pacers to a 98-80 victory over the host... - [Updated: Final Premier League fixtures released]( The Malta Football Association has decided to revise the last-day fixtures of the 2017/18 BOV Premier League that were announced earlier... - [Team Malta starts Fed Cup with a win]( The Tennis' women's team, comprised of Elaine Genovese, Brenda Galea, Francesca Curmi and Emily Lightfoot, has started its Fed Cup... - [Watch: Farrugia nets brace for FC Chiasso]( Jean Paul Farrugia hit a brace in FC Chiasso's 2-1 win over Servette in the Switzerland's second-tier, last Sunday. The Malta... Business News - [A healthy ageing experience]( In 2017, 25 per cent of the world’s population was over 50 – a record number. As you age, you may notice that your body goes through... - [Bond yields rise, oil prices drop]( Oil prices fell sharply and government bond yields rose yesterday on the view that the weekend’s US-led missile strikes on Syria were... - [Italy’s Eni defies sceptics, may up stake in nuclear fusion project]( Italian energy group Eni is considering stepping up its investment in nuclear fusion, potentially doubling down on a tech­nology... - [Japan, China agree trade war will harm global economy]( Japan and China agree that a trade war will have serious consequences for the world economy, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said... - [Money market report for the week ending April 13]( On April 9, the European Central Bank announced its weekly main refinancing operation (MRO). The operation was conducted on April 10 and... Community - [Announcements - April 17, 2018]( MICELI. On April 16, at Pax et Bonum Home, ADELINA, aged 87, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves to... - [A night of poetry, prose and stories]( Presented by Yogi Paulo, Ringo Starr’s cousin, this open mic event is open to anyone interested in performing, sharing or listening to... - [Spiritual music from the Netherlands]( Liberty International Malta Ltd is presenting two concerts by Dutch mixed choir Immanuël, titled Out of Love, today and on Thursday. The... - [Exhibitions, re-enactments mark award anniversary]( Fort St Elmo and the National War Museum opened their doors to history buffs and families alike on Sunday to commemorate the 76th... - [Running the London marathon for charity]( In just a few days, the provincial of the Maltese Jesuits, Patrick Magro, flies to London where he will be running the London marathon to... Blogs - [The music did not die]( A day after the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia six months ago, Times of Malta titled its editorial “the day the music died.”... - [Lest we forget and we be damned]( Six months ago a journalist’s murder shook the world. The world and a few of us, a poor deranged few of us, are still in shock. But on... - [6 things I learnt from the cartoon saga]( A cartoon by Seb Tanti Burlo commenting about the Å»urrieq double-decker bus tragedy in a very brutal manner opened the floodgates of... - [Isn’t incest illegal?]( Malta's Finance Minister declared that the rate of corruption today is no higher than it was in the past. I have no clue how the... - [Charles Scicluna to the pillory]( Those who these days surf on the Kingdom on Inanities (Facebook) will be inundated with a tsunami of Happy Easter messages, Easter... Copyright © 2018 Times of Malta Newsletter for Tuesday, 17 Apr 2018