Foreigners travelling to Amsterdam could be banned from coffee shops following a proposal from the city’s mayor to decreased local organised crime and drug tourism.
Mayor Femke Halsema put forward a proposal which only allows Dutch citizens to enter cannabis coffee shops in a measure which is already supported by police and prosecutors.
If the proposal is accepted and a law passes, foreigners will not be able to enter the 166 Amsterdam coffee shops from some point next year.
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The Chairman of the Malta Tourism Authority, Gavin Gulia has been elected to occupy the seat vacated by the current governor of Central Bank Edward Scicluna.
Gulia beat Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando with 1,486 votes against JPO’s 1,479, with Charles Azzopardi being ousted early on in the race.
Dr. Gulia served a short stint as Justice minister in 1998 and will return to Parliament for the first time since 2013.
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Malta has registered 240 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 3,354 swab tests, while 80 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.
From yesterday’s cases; 42 cases were family members of previously known cases, 11 cases were contact of positive work colleagues, 6 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases and 11 cases were from social gatherings with other positive cases.
To date, Malta has registered 14,769 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 12,016 have recovered, 234 died and 2,519 are still active.
“Together we can write history.”
These were the words of Dr. Bernard Grech, 100 days after his election as Nationalist Party Leader.
Dr. Grech is enthusiastic in presenting a ‘New Page’ for our country and while the boost in ratings on the MaltaToday survey was encouraging, the PN leader is aware that the party has more work to do.
Amongst other plans, Dr. Grech revealed the importance of investing in the youth and Gozo, two sectors in which he will maintain constant contact and see to the development of the PN in those areas.
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