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Just Bants: Gozo should get its independence so we double our Eurovision chances

Just Bants: Gozo should get its independence so we double our Eurovision chances
May 10 2023 Share

Maltese Eurovision fans, we understand you’re currently heartbroken over the fact that our boys didn’t make it to the final despite their best efforts. Honestly, we’re with you; we were on edge until the very last moments to see if our sweater-wearing symphony could throw a Hail Mary a get us into the final for the first time in two years, but alas.

 

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Now, standard Eurovision procedure dictates that frustrated fans begin to dish out the yearly rhetoric; “Stop spending so much many on Eurovision”, “it’s a neighbours game”, “we should stop participating altogether”, and so on. Whether you agree with these statements is beside the point but clearly, something has to be done, and we have an idea.

Before anyone gets ahead of themselves and takes this article too seriously, this article is purely post-performance paroli; sensational speculative satire of sorts. But maybe… JUST MAYBE… would giving Gozo its independence double our chances of getting into the Eurovision final?

Let’s face it, a sizeable chunk of our country’s musical talent has originated from Gozo. Our sister island has produced a fair amount of local favourites like The Travellers, Michela Pace, Morena, Denise, Micimago… the list goes on. So what if we had to explore an alternative route? If giving Gozo its independence constitutes an additional Eurovision entry alongside Malta, together with a Eurovision Song Gozo, what’s to say that THAT would be our very ticket to Eurovision glory?

Don’t get too ahead of yourselves though… we’re just kidding.

Or are we?

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Authorities should explore students taking Matsec exams in their own schools, CEO suggests

Authorities should explore students taking Matsec exams in their own schools, CEO suggs
May 10 2023 Share

Taking to LinkedIn, CEO of eCabs Andrew Bezzina addressed the traffic issue around Malta following various students arriving late to their exams due to heavy gridlocks in various localities. 

He explained how, as a father of two, ‘it won’t be long before my kids are sitting for their O-levels and my family will have to shuffle between work and ensuring they get to their exams.’ 

Calling this a logistical nightmare for families, he suggested authorities exploring carrying out Matsec exams in the student’s respective schools or in regional catchment areas. 

This would, according to Bezzina avoid generating more traffic as it would not have ‘students from all over the island flood into a single examination centre.’ 

‘Rather than students travelling to their exam centres, the exams should come to them’ he said. Citing his own company’s data on traffic flows which seem to clog during Matsec season. 

‘Transport authorities could draft cycle and walking routes for students within a five-kilometre radius and even encourage public transport for students as an affordable and reliable alternative to being driven to their exams.’ 

What do you make of this suggestion?

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Emma Cutajar to represent Malta in Commonwealth Song Contest

Emma Cutajar to represent Malta in Commonwealth Song Contest
May 10 2023 Share

16-year-old singer and a familiar face from Malta’s Got Talent Season 1, Emma Cutajar, will be representing our country in the Commonwealth Song Contest. 

The contest, which was first held in 2018 during the Commonwealth Games, is an international music event for the 56 nations in the Commonwealth. 

Administered by the UK Songwriting Contest, the finalists were announced to reveal that Emma will be the singer representing the island in this now renowned competition. 

The song was written by Emma when she was 14 years old as a tribute to her sister whom she never got the chance to meet. She first performed this song during the first season of Malta’s Got Talent, earning her the Golden Buzzer by judge Maxine Attard Aquilina. 

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Gozitan lifts $3 million car up his expensive Melbourne apartment

Gozitan lifts $3 million car up his expensive Melbourne apartment
May 10 2023 Share

Gozitan-Australian millionaire Adrian Portelli, who recently made news for buying the most expensive apartment in Melbourne, has just lifted his $3 million McLaren to the exotic 57th storey parking spot.

The McLaren Senna GTR was lifted a whopping 57, after having bought the supercar in October of last year. 

This also comes after he posted to instagram that he purchased the $39 million luxury penthouse in Melbourne. Hiring a crane and construction crew to complete the feat, videos show the car being lifted carefully up the many, many floors. 

 

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It is also worth noting that, according to news portal Car Expert, the apartment is still being built. 

Portelli wrote to Instagram, thanking everyone involved ‘for making this absolutely surreal moment happen.’ 

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