Yesterday, police were informed at around 1330hrs that their assistance was required on a farm in Sqaq il-Kalkara, Had-Dingli.
Police convened immediately on site and preliminary investigations showed that a 67-year-old man resident of the same locality was working with a chaser and injured his arm.
The man was given assistance by a medical team and was later taken to Mater Dei Hospital. He was later certified as having suffered grievous injuries.
Investigations are ongoing.
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Here’s a wholesome video of local singer Fabrizio Faniello taking people down memory lane during another edition of Boozy Bingo.
The local singer brought a Maltese classic to a highly engaged audience as they all had their musical memories rushing back to them. Even an elderly woman who was part of the crowd was absolutely loving the throwback.
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Watch as both singer and audience sing along, wave their hands and mobile flashlights to the music and make this a night to remember.
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Microsoft owner and founder Bill Gates has revealed his intentions to drop off the list ranking the richest people alive while he is still around. He intends to do this with the help of the Gates Foundation by donating billions of dollars from his own pocket.
The latest donation of $20 billion to the Gates Foundation has already helped him drop down one place on the list, with him now being placed 5th on the Forbes richest people alive catalogue. He has an estimated net worth of $102 billion outside the Gates Foundation.
He revealed all this in an interview with Forbes where he admitted to following the ‘give while you live’ philosophy, popularized by American businessman and philanthropist Chuck Feeney. The latter co-founded airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller all the way back in 1960.
He went on to say: “I’ll get myself out of the highly visible part of the list with just say two more gifts of this magnitude. I would get myself off the top part of the list. ”
“Getting all the way off the list, that’s going to take me a while, but my direction of travel is clear.”
According to Forbes, the latest donation from divorced couple Bill and Melinda Gates brings their total amount donated to $55 billion which makes them the ‘biggest philanthropists of all time’, moving ahead of close friend Warren Buffet, who has given away $48 billion, most of it also to the foundation.
Traffic through the Malta International Airport continued to exhibit an upward trend, with June passenger numbers further narrowing the gap created by the pandemic. With 603,532 passengers welcomed, marking a recovery of 83.6% of pre-pandemic traffic, June has so far been the airport’s busiest month since October 2019.
The result was achieved on the back of a recovery of 80.8% in aircraft movements and a recovery of 82.3% in seat capacity. The seat load factor (SLF) for the month of June increased by 1.4% over pre-pandemic levels to stand at a healthy 85.5%.
A similar increase in SLF had also been resisted in May 2022. Having resisted a slight increase in market share over May 2022, Italy tightened it grip on the top spot of the MIA’s market leaderboard. The United Kingdom, France and Germany also retained their positions from the previous month.
On the other hand, June saw the return of Spain among the airport’s top five markets following an absence of seven months, as Poland dropped to sixth place. In June, Malta International Airport welcomed the first Vueling flight from Bilbao in Northern Spain, bringing the number of Spanish destinations served up to five.
Year-to-date traffic was roughly equivalent to full-year traffic for 2021, which year was brought to a close with 2.5 million passenger movements. Between January and June 2022, 2.3 million passengers travelled through MIA, translating to a recovery of 72.1% of the traffic handled during the first half of 2019.
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Photo source: Rene Rossignaud (MIA)
