Jake Muscat 2022 champion alongside PVK Jadran in Montenegro

Apr 17 2022

Neptunes starlet Jake Muscat has continued to make waterpolo history for Malta after his Montenegro team were crowned 2022 champions.

Muscat continued his playing career in Montenegro after he was offered a one-year-contract by the Montenegrin team for his second spell with them.

The club, based in Herceg Novi, had welcomed the local star back in 2019-20, despite his run being cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Muscat returned just in time for the team to emerge victorious in 2022.

The team managed to beat Primorac narrowly at 9:8 in the fourth match of the final, winning the title with a 3:1 score in the series. This makes it Jadran’s 8th consecutive trophy for the national champion and the 11th in the total. Muscat himself managed to land a score during the match.

His home team Neptunes WPSC took to social media to congratulate the player, saying that all Neptunes supporters are proud of Jake’s achievements and are looking forward to having him back for the 2022 Summer League.

PVK Jadran established themselves into the biggest club in Montenegrin waterpolo, thanks to the hard work of Vladimir Gojkovic, who is remembered in Malta for his run with Neptunes in 2010. PVK boast 14 national titles in Montenegro, and their opportunity to Muscat was one he could not say no to.

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Malta’s national rugby team secures comfortable win over Cyprus

Apr 17 2022

With a spectacular performance at the Tony Bezzina Stadium, Malta’s national rugby team managed to land a comfortable victory over Cyprus.

Racking up a score of 27-10 in favour of the Maltese, the national team had to compete not only against a solid Cypriot defence but also heavy winds throughout the match.

Starting off rough after a Cyprus penalty, the Maltese team managed to land three tries without reply thanks to Jethro Zammit Randich (2) and Robert Holloway.

From then on, the Maltese took command of the entire match, replying to other scores by Cyprus’ team with their own, ensuring that they finish second in the group right behind Croatia.

With Malta’s Dudman suffering a foot injury despite being a main player throughout the match, the national team continued to keep a safe score difference through highly coordinated teamwork and resilience.

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Photo Source: Mark Cassar Hotch

PN MP Adrian Delia delivers Easter gifts to orphanages

Apr 17 2022

Celebrating Easter, Nationalist MP Adrian Delia yesterday visited several orphanages around Malta to gift the staff and children living there with delicious treats.

Posting to social media, the politician said that there is nothing more rewarding in life than making other people happy.

‘During days such as these, small acts of kindness to our youth in these homes of love help them celebrate the message of Easter Sunday’ said Delia, on a post accompanied with images of him and his team donating the goodies.

Delia, who visited orphanages in Tarxien, Guardamangia and Sliema, took snaps of himself with the Ursuline community who care for the various orphaned children in the country.

In other photos, he was shown carrying large boxes of everything form Easter eggs, the iconic ‘figolli’, panettone and various other sweets and delicacies.

The Ursulines, is an enclosed religious order of consecrated women. Founded in Malta in 1887, the congregation takes care of poor and abandoned babies and children with around nine homes in Malta.

The former PN leader himself managed to acquire a seat in the Maltese parliament for the new legislature on the Opposition’s ticket, despite having faced internal opposition in the past from within the party itself.

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Photo Source: Adrian Delia

Zelenskyy warns all countries that Putin could use nuclear weapons

Apr 17 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged all countries of the world to be ready for Russia’s President possibly using nuclear weapons.

More than 50 days into the invasion of Ukraine, the president of the war-torn Russian neighbour has warned that nuclear weapons could be set for use.

This comes after Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that a Third World War would be nuclear and destructive earlier on during the invasion. Vladimir Putin has increased the risk of nuclear war by putting the country’s nuclear deterrent forces on high alert when the crisis began.

This led Zelenskyy to urge countries to be on high alert and to prepare, telling CNN that Russia may also be deploying chemical weaponry.

Director of the CIA Bill Burns has suggested that since Putin’s special military operation is not going well as first anticipated, it could lead to the use of such weapons in Ukraine.

The use of nuclear weapons would largely increase the devastating death tolls, which Zelenskyy believes stands at around 2,500 and 3,000 Ukrainian troops. When it comes to civilians, he said that it is very difficult to truly get an accurate number.

Russia has not ruled out the use of nuclear weapons, but said that it would only use them if there is an ‘existential threat’ to the country. Putin had also threatened NATO earlier on during the war that should they interfere, they would face consequences as they have never seen in their history.

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