€45,000 investment to help kids with disabilities develop musical skills

Sep 14 2021

Children with disabilities in Malta are being offered the opportunity to develop skills in playing musical instruments. In a collaboration between the Malta Arts Council and he Malta Trust Foundation, the project was launched during a press conference wherein €45,000 will be provided to the Arts Ministry over a three year period. This monetary investment will go into purchasing and maintaining musical instruments a Villa Bianca Birkirkara. The residence will be the country’s first centre which offers such opportunities to kids with diverse disabilities such as autism.

Malta Trust Foundation chairwoman Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca signed the agreement with the arts council and stated how this is a historic project which fill ‘fill a gap in the field of music and performing arts for children with diverse needs who to date have not had an opportunity to develop such skills. Minister Jose Herrera highlighted the importance of inclusion as Villa Bianca, in its final renovation stages, was donated to the foundation for the benefit of helping children with disabilities.

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Photo Source: Jose Herrera FB, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca FB

All unvaccinated workers in Greece to undergo weekly mandatory COVID-19 tests

Sep 14 2021

Greece has launched a programme of mandatory weekly tests for all unvaccinated workers as it continues to combat a massive lack in vaccination rates. Lagging in comparison to the European Union average, both public and private sector employees will have to pay for weekly tests or instead carry a vaccination certificate to access their workspace. The government is also paying for test kits distributed to unvaccinated children at high schools.

These same restrictions will also apply at sports stadiums, museums, cinemas, restaurants and all such leisure spaces. Despite the EU vaccination average being just over 60%, Greece has 56% of its population fully vaccinated. Health care workers have received vaccine mandates, with children starting age twelve being allowed to receive the jab. Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis told Skai Television that the measures seem to be working, but there are also lots of deaths of unvaccinated citizens. Georgiadis said ‘it hurts me to know that these people could have lived, but they fell victim to conspiracy theories.’

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Photo Source: NBC News

President George Vella visits site where Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered

Sep 13 2021

Earlier today, President George Vella visited the Bidnija site where Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated. He was accompanied by wife Miriam Vella and Caruana Galizia’s family, where they set a wreath at the site and paid their respects to the journalist who was assassinated with a car bomb in 2017.

The Office of the President published a statement revealing that the visit to the Bidnija site was organised after a number of exchanges and agreements between the journalist’s family and the President.

The Caruana Galizia family welcomed the President’s visit, in light of the recent public inquiry, as an exhibition of recognition of the state’s responsibility in the assassination and failure to recognise and avoid the risks to the journalist’s life.

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WATCH: Conor McGregor & Machine Gun Kelly in heated argument on VMA red carpet

Sep 13 2021

The Barclays Center in New York was brimming with celebrities on Sunday evening for the 2021 edition of the MTV Video Music Awards but things started to heat up as the night progressed.

Conor McGregor throws a drink at MGK on the red carpet (via ig:laurademytrk) pic.twitter.com/H0naCNbMta

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 13, 2021

Despite claiming that “absolutely nothing” happened, video footage has emerged showing the Irish MMA fighter and American rapper exchange in a heated back-and-forth before McGregor lunged at the artist and threw a drink at him. The security arrived just in time to separate the stars before they came to blows.

Reports have stated that the altercation began when McGregor asked Machine Gun Kelly for a photo, which the rapper denied, reportedly shoved McGregor and made him stumble backwards and spill his drink. MGK, real name Colson Baker’s girlfriend Megan Fox was seen being escorted beyond the melee while the situation diffused.

Conor McGregor is throwing shade at Machine Gun Kelly. 😬 #VMAs https://t.co/FJ7v0Kowr4 pic.twitter.com/vtC7ca3oeY

— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) September 13, 2021

The two were seen in the audience at the award show soon after, with McGregor telling an Entertainment Tonight representative that he only fights real fighters and he most certainly does not fight ‘little Vanilla Ice white rappers’.

Who are you siding with in this situation?

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