14-year-old left unattended with shotgun as reports of dead protected bird increase

Apr 22 2022

The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) has reported a case of a hunter leaving a 14-year-old minor unattended with a loaded shotgun.

The 14-year-old was reportedly filmed sitting in a hunting hide with the loaded shotgun in hand whilst looking for birds. The organisation also reported a number of illegal hunting and trapping cases. This morning, the Malta Police Force was notified of five dead protected Marsh Harriers in Delimara.

“It is still unclear whether the animals are victims of Tuesday’s massacre or were shot earlier.”

“The birds were found in two freshly harvested fields close to the Church of Our Lady of tas-Silġ, where a team from BirdLife Malta witnessed the illegal shooting of roosting harriers in the night from Monday to Tuesday,” CABS wrote in a statement.

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“Statistics clearly show that vaccinations are helping to reduce deaths”, says Charmaine Gauci

Apr 22 2022

In this afternoon’s press conference, Superintendent for Public Health Prof. Charmaine Gauci stated that “the vaccine is effective especially with complications and deaths across Europe, where we can see that people who require hospital admission are unvaccinated or have not yet received their booster.”

Prof. Gauci also discussed the national death rate and explained the importance of understanding where these deaths come from. “We classify these deaths according to the WHO and if you look at the statistics, it is clear that the vaccinations are helping reduce deaths as well.”

“In fact, if you look at data from March 2020 until April 18th of this year, we have seen a 76% overall of deaths related to COVID-19 were due to ‘direct underlying cause’.”

What do you make of this?

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Malta with best broadband value in Western Europe; 12th place from 220 countries globally

Apr 22 2022

Research conducted by broadband internet comparison organisation Cable.co.uk has revealed that Malta has the cheapest cost per megabit in the entirety of Western Europe.

The study, which analysed the cost and performance of broadband in 220 countries globally found that Maltese consumers access their broadband with €0.07 per megabit, which is 2 cents less than Andorra, Spain and Portugal.

With regards to internet access costs, Malta places twelfth globally at $0.08 per megabit. Multiple Eastern European countries were frontrunners in the study when considering cost per megabit in USD, with Romania, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia leading the list together with Singapore and Thailand.

Melita CEO Harald Roesch stated that their mission is to “deliver communication products that rank top tier in Europe for value; the results of the research show that we have succeeded.”

You can view the full report here.

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Parties & weddings back to normal from May 2 as Chris Fearne lifts COVID-19 restrictions

Apr 22 2022

Earlier today, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne announced that almost all COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted as from May 2nd, with parties and weddings to return back to normal.

This would mean that attendee limits, vaccine requirements and the wearing of masks will not remain mandatory at parties and weddings. In addition to this, Fearne also revealed that the mask-wearing measure will be lifted across Malta except for hospitals, clinics, elderly homes and during flights.

Additionally, Malta will no require passenger locator forms from travellers arriving from green zones as of May 2nd. Arrivals from red and dark red zones will still be required to fill in their PLF. The passenger locator forms created quite a stir for travellers due to the creation of longer queues and extended waiting times at the Malta International Airport.

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