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Gozo Fast Ferry Ltd’s eco-friendly, high-speed passenger crafts have arrived from Singapore in time to start operating a shuttle service between Valletta and Gozo from June 1. The 40-metre, state-of-the-art vessels, which come at an investment of €10 million, arrived on Thursday night on a 148-metre cargo ship and were being offloaded into the sea on Friday. Built in 2018, the seacraft - Your Faith and Your Wisdom - come equipped with the latest environmental technology, advanced navigation capabilities... Читать дальше...

US e-commerce giant Amazon announced on Friday that it will create more than 10,000 new jobs in Britain, a day after a US hiring spree as online shopping booms during the pandemic. The expansion, equivalent to one-fifth of its UK workforce, will take its total staff in the country to more than 55,000 by the end of this year. The announcement came one day after Amazon revealed plans to add 75,000 jobs in the United States and Canada. “We’re creating thousands of good jobs across the UK from a diverse... Читать дальше...

Two of the four speed cameras planned for the Coast Road have been installed, the Local Enforcement System Agency (LESA) said.  The other two will be installed at a later date. On Friday, LESA said the cameras were installed following various studies of the area and after taking on board recommendations of multiple magisterial inquiries.   Contraventions will start being issued from May 24 and motorists will only receive a warning that they have exceeded the maximum permissible speed limit until then. Читать дальше...

These are the leading stories in local newspapers this Friday. Times of Malta leads with news that health authorities have decided that village feast celebrations will not be allowed this summer, for a second consecutive year.  The newspaper also gives prominence to escalating violence in the Middle East, with Israel ordering troops to mobilise to quell riots on two fronts.  The Malta Independent dedicates its entire front cover to debate about decriminalising abortion, sparked by a private members' bill presented by MP Marlene Farrugia. Читать дальше...

I walk – PPE-clad – into a medical ward to see a patient. A seasoned manager I’ve known for years approaches me: “Jimporta nkellmek naqra please?” (“May I talk to you please?”). Without hesitation, I usher her into an office. She bursts out into tears and I haven’t even shut the door yet. COVID-19 doesn’t only hurt our patients and loved ones. It also hurts our indefatigable staff. Haggard and clearly under pressure, the manager opens up. It’s not only COVID-19 but this is the cherry on the cake. Читать дальше...

Two-storey buildings located outside urban conservation areas (many of which were built in the 1970s to 1980s era) may be easily pulled down and replaced by multi-storey apartments following a simple planning application. This is possible because the local plans published in 2006 were specifically designed to promote this state of play. In that same epoch, another policy was introduced so that where three allowable floors were allowed, a penthouse floor could also be permitted ‘over and above’. Читать дальше...

As any business is wholly aware, change can be difficult and success is all about how that change is carried out. The recent White Paper on the legalisation of recreational cannabis spurred an extensive discussion and employers wanted to know how this reform would affect them and how they should navigate the circumstances. The Malta Chamber believes that the logical approach towards recreational cannabis should begin with decriminalising personal use while prioritising public health. Quick win solutions are unnecessary risks ... Читать дальше...

Obituaries BEZZINA. On MAY 13, Dr ALBERT, opthalmologist, of Mosta, aged 60, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Antje, his son Allen and daughter Amelie, his father Joseph, his sister Isabelle and her husband Emmanuel Camilleri, his brother Alex and his wife Lucienne, his father-in-law Peter-Ingo Behrendt and Ursel Wuntorf, his brother-in-law Robert Behrendt, nephews and nieces, all other relatives and friends. The funeral cortège leaves Mater Dei hospital on Friday... Читать дальше...

The health authorities have decided that the celebration of religious feasts will not be permitted this summer for the second consecutive year due to the COVID pandemic. The government is due to meet Church authorities to discuss the matter but will insist that, along with other mass events, village feasts are not yet viable in the present situation, sources have told Times of Malta. Health Minister Chris Fearne last week already hinted this would be the case, even as he unveiled the plan to ease... Читать дальше...

Cannabis is the most widely used illegal substance around the world, accounting for an estimated 192 million consumers out of the 269 million people reported to have used drugs in 2018. In Malta, this trend proves true as well, with a prevalence of cannabis use of 4.3 per cent among adults. These figures, in Malta and abroad, are reported by governments and based on data of people arrested or on those who sought emergency care and are conservative and partial as people with unreported occasional... Читать дальше...

Eikon – the Centre for Liturgical Arts of the Diocese of Gozo – is working on two mosaic icons, one of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the other of the Blessed Mother as Star of the Sea (Stella Maris).  The icons were commissioned by Fr Alfredo Hernandez, rector of St Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Florida, the US. Eikon director, Fr Roberto Gauci, says the Sacred Heart of Jesus icon is a synthesis of the humanity assumed by the Son of God in the mystery of the Incarnation and lived in full... Читать дальше...

The Conventual Friars will celebrate the feast of St Isidore, also known as Isidore the Farmer, at their Franciscan church in Victoria on Saturday, May 15.  Rosary will be said at 6pm, followed by Mass celebrated by Fr Guardian Joe Xerri at 6.30p.m. Another Mass will be said by Mgr Rużar Borg at 8.30pm. After Mass, there will be community adoration of the Blessed Sacrament up to midnight, followed by Mass. The statue of St Isidore has been placed on the presbytery for public veneration.  St Isidore... Читать дальше...

Missing the point about embryos Christopher Barbara (May 6) completely misses the point made by Ivan Padovani’s note which highlighted the incontestable fact that every human adult was at one point a zygote. Whether we should casually call the early embryo a “miniature baby” or not, no biologist could, or would, deny that she was a zygote at the earliest instant of her life. I was once a zygote, even you, the reader of this letter was once a zygote. The argument for abortion is not a scientific... Читать дальше...

Liverpool kept their chances of a place in next season’s Champions League in their own hands with a thrilling 4-2 victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford on Thursday. Jurgen Klopp’s men still need to win their remaining three games to guarantee a place in the Premier League’s top four, but cleared the biggest hurdle in their path with a first victory away to United since 2014. Roberto Firmino scored twice either side of half-time after Diogo Jota cancelled out Bruno Fernandes’s early opener for the home side. Читать дальше...

Jadon Sancho and Erling Braut Haaland both netted twice Thursday as Borussia Dortmund won the German Cup with an emphatic 4-1 win over RB Leipzig to spoil Julian Nagelsmann’s hopes of leaving with a title. Dortmund turned on the style at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, converting all of their three first-half shots on target to sweep Leipzig aside as Sancho netted twice either side of a superb Haaland goal. Spain midfielder Dani Olmo pulled a goal back for Leipzig, before Haaland grabbed his second... Читать дальше...