Car split in two after gruesome traffic accident in Imrieħel

Mar 13 2022

Officials within the Civil Protection Service are currently working a delicate operation to assist a driver who was injured in a gruesome traffic accident earlier today in Mrieħel.

Photo Source: TVM

The accident took place at around 11am at the Mrieħel Bypass when the driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a tree, splitting the car in two as a result of the impact. The victim was assisted by drivers in the area until to the arrival of a medical team – the cause of the accident is not yet known.

The driver was taken to Mater Dei hospital via ambulance and his condition is not yet known. The Mrieħel Bypass remains closed to traffic.

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Photo Source: TVM / Justin Vassallo & Andrea Rossitto

Significant amount of Labour voters may boycott general election, Alfred Sant warns

Mar 13 2022

Former Maltese Prime Minister and current Labour MEP Alfred Sant has stated that a significant amount of Labour voters may boycott the March 26 election due to a number of reasons.

Recent analysis such as statistician Vincent Marmara’s survey for It-Torċa have forecasted a Labour win by 39,000 votes whilst MaltaToday’s survey puts the voting bracket at 26,000 votes. Despite this, Sant has stated that, while the effect may not be large enough to change the election result, regular PL voters may spoil their vote or abstain, going on to highlight that the number of such individuals may be larger than what surveys are illustrating.

Whilst urging the Labour Party to attempt to recover votes lost, he argued the fact that some people may have had personal issues with Labour representatives, which must be justified, while other complaints may be of fascist nature and must be discarded.

Seemingly relating to the MEP’s sentiments, some took to the comments to express some of their own issues in this regard.

What do you make of this?

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Rain showers and strong wings expected in Malta and Gozo on Sunday

Mar 13 2022

A look at the sky is more than enough indication that the weather isn’t the most pleasant today, but various Maltese weather pages have been forecasting strong winds and rain showers for the remainder of Sunday.

Facebook page ‘It-Temp Madwarna’ has forecasted a 95 per cent chance of rain, with winds as strong as gale force 5 and temperatures feeling as low as 9 degrees celsius. Elsewhere, ‘Malta Weather’ has warned of moderate to strong winds and rain showers across Malta and Gozo.

Malta’s Met Office via the Malta International Airport is reporting rainy weather with temperature highs of 13°C and lows of 10°C. Rather strong winds to strong Southeast becoming moderate are also expected, with a trough of low pressure extending from Morocco to Tunisia reported in the Maltairport website’s detailed forecast.

So don’t get your shorts and tank tops out just yet.

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Gozitans workers in Malta should be paid for travelling time, says Bernard Grech

Mar 13 2022

Bernard Grech has stated that a Nationalist Government will ensure that Gozitans travelling to Malta to work would start being paid for their travel time ‘from the moment they board the ferry’.

During a Nationalist Party event at Għajnsielem on Saturday, Grech reiterated the PN’s vision of the population’s responsibility towards one another, slamming the government’s treatment of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia whilst also highlighting a brief pause to the election campaign to make way for a national march in solidarity with Ukraine.

Grech highlighted that Gozitan workers who need to come to Malta to work would benefit from this new scheme by receiving payment from the moment they embark the ferry until they arrive back in Gozo, going on to criticise the Planning Authority’s recent approval of permission for a large apartment block in Sannat.

Also recently, a number of Maltese environmental NGOs have stated that Malta’s two major parties have failed to address biodiversity protection through their proposals, calling them ‘greenwashing‘.

Do you agree?

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