€60,000 donation to DAR Bjorn by Accommodation Ministry

Sep 28 2021

Minister for Social Accommodation Roderick Galdes and his ministry have donated a generous €60,000 to Bjorn Formosa as he strives to open his new DAR Bjorn. Formosa, who has worked tirelessly over the years to provide a home for neurological patients such as himself in Malta a safe haven, managed to rack up €1,600,723 in his latest live telethon.

The Housing Authority pitched in a €60,000 donation to help build a specialised neuro-gym to help patients living in the new and improved DAR Bjorn. Minister Galdes said that the residents of DAR Bjorn deserved the best services to live a quality life. He also explained how the home is a foundation upon which rests our quality of life.

Neuro-rehabilitation will be given to the patients in DAR Bjorn through this new gym, with physiotherapy helping these patients keep up with daily activities and maintain mobility. This will also promote an active lifestyle irrespective of disability. The facility will also help to ease the patient’s pain and help them live a more comfortable life.

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Photo Source: Roderick Galdes FB

Joseph Mbong opens up on his football career on Ben Camille’s GAME ON

Sep 28 2021

For his newest episode of GAME ON, host Ben Camille meets up with Hamrun Spartans Football Club’s Joseph Mbong. Throughout the episode, we get to meet different sides of the locally renowned player as Camille asks him about his upbringing in football and his decisions to leave Hibs and join Hamrun.

In a heartwarming story, Mbong reveals that his decision to leave his old team did not come easy. However, he was provided with an opportunity to help his mother who had been working tirelessly to support their family after the passing of his father. Through hard work and determination, Mbong worked his way up through the ranks and became one of Malta’s greatest athletes.

The player also opens up about how his passion for football was cultivated. He reveals that his father did not force him to play football but wanted him to develop a passion for the match on his own and to grow up to become an excellent player. Mbong recounts how his father wanted him to first kick off his career by playing in fields and playgrounds.

Mbong premiered with Hibs at the age of 16 at the National Stadium. As the episode goes on, we see Mbong’s fun side as he recounts his latest breath-taking score, who out of Hamrun’s team is the joker of the squad and even challenges Camille to a couple of football related challenges! Tune in to Ben Camille’s GAME ON to get to know the local star further!

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Photo Source: Joseph Mbong FB, Ben Camille FB

Malta should introduce voting from abroad due to pandemic restrictions

Sep 28 2021

The new political party Volt Malta has said that the country should allow citizens who live abroad to be able to vote through an embassy, consulate or mail. Given the COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions and the next general election around the corner, the Maltese branch of the pan-European Volt movement issued a statement urging the government not to forget Maltese living abroad. This is especially the case for those who do not meet Malta’s vaccination requirements for entry without a mandatory quarantine.

This also concerns Maltese citizens who have received their jab in a country whose vaccine certificate is not yet recognised or those who were previously sick and received only one dose instead of two. For the country they are living in, these individuals are fully vaccinated, but this is not the practice adopted in Malta. Volt Malta also expressed its belief that nobody should be left behind and that the right to vote in an election is one which shouldn’t be taken lightly.

The uncertainty and changing context around the pandemic, Volt Malta expressed, might discourage people from exercising their right to vote. Kass Mallia, the party’s Vice President, said that as a Maltese citizen, ‘you have a right to vote, and as such, it should be the obligation of the government to make that possible even while you are abroad.’

Alexia DeBono, party Co-President, said that we also have to keep in mind vulnerable people, both in Malta and abroad who would risk compromising their health by going to an embassy or flying to Malta. ‘That is why we need to introduce both voting from abroad, and postal voting.’

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Turtle receives first operation after severely injured by propeller

Sep 28 2021

A poor turtle named Yosu has undergone its first operation after suffering a severe back injury after being hit by a ship’s propeller. Two other operations are to follow, with the turtle’s condition indicated to having been injured for around four weeks. Vincent Attard, Nature Trust’s chief executive, told TVM that the turtle is in a critical condition but is responding well to treatment.

The turtle’s skin was not broken, preventing water from mixing with it organs. Many other creatures such as limpets have grown between the shell and the skin of its body. Attard said the turtle was found by persons on board a yacht sailing from Greece, along two others. One was unfortunately dead whilst the other suffered a severe infection after being trapped in plastic. Nature Trust recalled how turtles face extinction and appealed to boat owners to sail more carefully.

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Photo Source: TVM