1,202 charged with prostitution over 3 years in Marsa

Jan 3 2023

A total of 1,202 persons in Marsa were charged with prostitution and loitering over the past three years, The Malta Independent revealed via police crime records sources.

Source from the National Police System (NPS) and the Local Enforcement System (LES) revealed the statistics regarding prostitution starting from 2020 up until this point.

In 2022, 664 persons were charged in Marsa up until the 30th of November. In 2021, 519 persons were charged with both prostitution and loitering in the same locality.

Only 19 individuals were charged with prostitution in 2020, but 519 were charged in 2021, indicating a massive increase.

The Malta Independent also revealed that there were significantly less people charged for the same crime in Hamrun and Gzira. 24 were charged with prostitution over 3 yeas in Hamrun, with 19 being charged in 2022.

Just 4 were charged in 2021, with one individual charged for prostitution in 2020 in Hamrun.

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Source: The Malta Independent

Our Lady of Sorrows shrine wall destroyed due to renovation

Jan 3 2023

A post shared by the Sliema Local Council’s Facebook page revealed that the shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows was taken down due to a renovation project.

‘During the renovation project by St Joseph School which extends towards Tower Lane has seen the unfortunate destruction of a wall which for many years held [the] shrine’ the post explained.

The council said that this act is ‘deplorable’ and has called upon the respective authorities to take action so as to ‘have this wall and its shrine replaced as soon as possible.’

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Maltese politicians reimagined by local AI creator

Jan 3 2023

Following the recent uploads showing us what Malta would look like in 2023, with literal futuristic shuttles zooming through the island’s streets, malta_ai set their sights on local politicians.

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First off were Prime Minister Robert Abela and Opposition leader Bernard Grech as Avengers Iron Man and Captain America respectively.

This was followed by statues of late former Prime Ministers Duminku Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici in stills reminiscent of the Lincoln Memorial.

Next up was followed up by portraits of former Prime Ministers Eddie Fenech Adami and George Borg Olivier. AI has already taken the world by storm, with the AI Avatar trend literally filling up Instagram feeds as everyone wanted to see what they themselves looked like through an AI lens.

What do you make of these?

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Record hot temperatures hit Europe to start off 2023

Jan 3 2023

An intense wintertime heat dome covered much of Europe at the turn of the year, breaking records in the process.

Temperatures were soaring between 10 to 20 degrees Celsius as the calendar marked 2023 – temperatures far above the norm for countries like France or western Russia.

The extreme warm spell followed a record-warm year in many European countries – a phenomenon being heralded as more evidence of human-caused climate change.

We just observed the warmest January day on record for many countries in Europe.

Truly unprecedented in modern records. pic.twitter.com/bUux1XOBH9

— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) January 1, 2023

At least 7 countries saw their warmest January weather on record on New Year’s Day as temperatures hit those characteristic of springtime. Latvia hit 11.1°C and Denmark saw 12.6°C.

These were some of the relatively mildest, as the Czech Republic registered a whopping 19.6°C and Poland 19°C. The Netherlands registered 16.9°C and Lithuania 14.6°C.

Bilbao, Spain reached 25.1°C, which was its hottest January day yet as Trois-Ville, France reached 24.9°C.

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