timesofmalta.com newsletter - 18 Jan 2017

Copyright © 2017 timesofmalta.com Newsletter for Wednesday, 18 Jan 2017 [Times of Malta] [Vanity, Profanity & Worship] National - [Minister’s decision to pay FTS contractor meant he was paid almost twice the value of works] A decision by the Education Minister to ignore recommendations by the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Schools’ management meant a tiling contractor was paid almost twice the value of works, according to an internal report. The technical report shows... - [Difficulties of persons with disabilities aired] Waiting lists for in-school healthcare services were preventing children with a disability from reaping the full benefits of their educational opportunities. Marthese Mugliette, the president of the Malta Federation of Organisations – People with... - [Today's newspapers in review] The following are the top stories in national newspapers today. Times of Malta reports about a judicial protest filed by pro-life activists in which they claim that the Medicines Authority allowed the introduction of pharmaceuticals that could... - ['Keep out of politics,' Labour MP warns Church] The Church in Malta should keep out of the political fray and refrain from repeating mistakes of the past, Labour MP Etienne Grech said yesterday. Speaking during the adjournment in Parliament, he said that if the Church in Malta acted as a... - [Townsquare, Mrieħel high-rises: NGOs pledge to fight PA effort to censor civil society] NGOs have pledged to fight the Planning Authority’s “monstrous attempt at censoring civil society” ahead of a crucial decision on appeals against the controversial Townsquare and Mrieħel high-rises. Appeals against the 38-storey Townsquare tower... World news - [Relatives angry after search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 ends] Relatives of the Chinese citizens aboard doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 say the authorities who ended the search for the plane are deceiving them. Their angry comments came as Australia defended the decision to call off the hunt, and insisted... - [Watch: Youth wrestled to ground after slapping French ex-PM Valls] A youth slapped former prime minister Manuel Valls when he was on an election tour in France's Brittany region and was wrestled to the ground by a security guard, video showed. Valls, 54, was walking past a group of people in the town of Lamballe... - [Italian conservative elected European Parliament president] Italian conservative Antonio Tajani has been elected president of the European Parliament, succeeding Martin Schulz who is returning to German domestic politics. Tajani secured 351 votes, compared to 282 ballots cast for his fellow Italian and... - [Vatican orders Knights of Malta to cooperate with papal inquiry] The Vatican demanded today that the leaders of the Knights of Malta cooperate with an inquiry ordered by Pope Francis into alleged irregularities. In the latest salvo of a battle of wills between the heads of two of the world's oldest... - [Watch: UK to quit EU single market]  Brexit 'cannot mean membership of the single market' Final deal will be put to a vote in both houses of parliament May says Brexit must mean controls on migration into the UK UK will pursue 'comprehensive free trade agreement' with EU May... Opinion - [There’s no end to being good] If there’s something I truly love about the festive season is that we all tend to let go and express our inner feelings more freely.  The... - [European dream or reality?] The objectives of the European Union, spelt out in documents and treaties, have always stressed the importance of giving citizens a... - [Trump’s stress disorder] In two days’ time, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. What have we learnt about him during the... - [Safeguarding consumers’ rights] The Minister for Social Dialogue and Consumer Affairs seems to be willing to take a legal shortcut at the expense of citizen rights after... - [A farewell to a colleague] It is with much mixed emotions, sadness, respect, friendship and pride that we feel as we say our last goodbyes to one of us. The... Letters - [It’s all about Floriana] ■Il-Furjana, the organ of the Floriana School Old Boys Association, has survived the rigours of time. Unfortunately, it had been usurped... - [Catholic politician’s loyalty] I fully agree with Louis Spiteri (January 13) that a Catholic politician expressing his beliefs finds himself in the wilderness. S/he... - [Bad experience] On Thursday, January 12, at about 8.45am, as I stopped to drop two patients at the Hospice Movement, in Balzan, a heartless warden... - [Alone in the dark] At around 10.30 on Monday night, some parts of Balzan had a temporary power failure. Luckily, since at home our supply is three-phased,... - [Of decency] I have recently read Peter Apap Bologna’s book, Memories 1941-1973, and found it to be an interesting and well-researched... Sport - [Football news] Dimitri Payet’s desired exit from West Ham remains some distance away after the club rejected an improved offer from his former club... - [Sporting briefs] Goss: QPR are interested in signing Manchester United midfielder Sean Goss. The 21-year-old moved to Old Trafford from Exeter in 2012 and... - [Atalanta and Lazio show improvement at the half-way stage in Italy] The first round of the 2016/17 Serie A came to a close earlier this month with a few teams doing well and achieving more than what was... - [Wanderers eyeing Pearson transfer] Sliema Wanderers are engaged in talks with BOV Premier League rivals Hibernians over the transfer of defender Jonathan Pearson. Club... - [Judge rules footballer and his ex-teammate raped woman] David Goodwillie will not be selected to play for Plymouth Argyle until the club has considered a court judgment which ruled he and a... Business News - [Uncertainty over Trump and Brexit hits stocks and dollar while gold jumps] Stocks and the dollar fell and gold rose yesterday as investors looked for safety after President-elect Donald Trump said the US currency... - [Enhancing the right to e-privacy] EU citizens exchanging information electronically such as via the internet should shortly be guaranteed stronger protection of any data... - [Etihad, Lufthansa in talks to merge airlines – paper] Germany’s Lufthansa and Etihad Airways were in talks to possibly merge the two airlines, Italian daily Il Messaggero said in an unsourced... - [Lloyd’s to announce new EU subsidiary in coming months] Lloyd’s of London would make an announcement on its new European subsidiary by the middle of April at the latest, its chairman John... - [Understanding credit ratings] A bond is a financial transaction generally between two parties, the borrower (bond issuer) and the investor (bondholder). In other... Social - [Valletta International Baroque Festival] The Valletta International Baroque Festival continues today with two concerts, one at St Nicholas (All Souls) church and one at the... - [Tarkovsky – Stalker] The latest film to be screened today as part of the Sculpting Time: Andrei Tarkovsky Retrospective remastered in new digital prints at... - [Danny and the Monster Clothes] One night Danny is awoken by a strange noise. The noise is coming from underneath a pile of clothes […] one of his socks has magically... - [A poet in Strait Street] The Strada Stretta Concept, under the auspices of the Valletta 2018 Foundation, present Poeta fi Strada Stretta/ A Poet in Strait Street:... - [Berlin Alexanderplatz continues] Ranier Werner Fassbinder’s masterpiece continues screening tonight at the German-Maltese circle in Valletta. This 14-part West German... Blogs - [Aunt Gerit] She looked very much like the old silver-haired mother in Umberto Boccioni’s paintings. A great aunt with few words to say, mostly... - [Institutionalised quietism] Often, Malta reminds me of DeChirico’s work, and Maltese tribalism recalls those two solitary figures in his metaphysical paintings about... - [I know what I like] It's nice to be able to start with a quote that very few people (Darrin Zammit Lupi, are you reading?) will reference easily, so here... - [F.A. Zull's audit report] By means of the intervention of a member of the International Network of Spies, I have been made privy to the audit report about Premier... - [Presidencies and other P-words] As the long-awaited Malta EU presidency has turned Valletta into a hive of police activity right as I type this – to a ridiculous degree,... Copyright © 2017 timesofmalta.com Newsletter for Wednesday, 18 Jan 2017 This newsletter has been delivered to you because you have subscribed with [timesofmalta.com]. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please click [unsubscribe] and follow the instructions. 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