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Over 500kg Of Fishing Lines Collected In Coastal Clean Up

Over 500kg Of Fishing Lines Collected In Coastal Clean Up
Aug 22 2023 Share

A joint effort by the environmental NGO ‘Coast is Clear’ and ‘The Convenience Shop’ successfully concluded the summer sea and coastal cleanup activity. 

‘Coast is Clear is an NGO dedicated to protecting our seas and coastlines from pollution, and its partnership with The Convenience Shop reflects a shared vision of safeguarding marine ecosystems for future generations.’

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‘Under the guidance of Mark Galea Pace, founder of Coast is Clear, the diverse crew composed of individuals from various nationalities but all part of The Convenience Shop Group, embarked on their clean-up maritime mission. This multinational team collaborated seamlessly to target areas near the shore that are inaccessible by land, as well as strategic locations where sea currents notoriously accumulate waste.’

‘During the cleanup, over 500 kilograms of fishing lines and 16 bags of debris were painstakingly collected and removed from the sea and seashore. The recovered waste encompassed a range of discarded items, including torn nets, tyres, plastic containers, and various single-use plastics.’

The collected waste was disposed of responsibly, with the clean up highlighting the concern of ghost nets, which are abandoned and lost nets which continue to pose a serious threat to marine life.

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A Pastizzi Tattoo For Local Rapper Owen Leuellen

A Pastizzi Tattoo For Local Rapper Owen Leuellen
Aug 22 2023 Share

Our next guest for ‘Think or Ink’ was local rapper Owen Leuellen, who was subjected to a fun trivia time with our host Amy Borg.

As with last time, which saw Chef Daniel Borg Cardona tattooing a MaltaDaily logo, Owen had to answer various questions and, depending on how many he got wrong, he’d have to get the respective tattoo.

 

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The music artist ended up walking out of Black Dahlia with an iconic local pastry – a pastizzi. 

Of course, we don’t know whether Owen imagines it to be a ricotta or pizelli pastizzi, but we thank him for being such a great sport!

Stay tuned for more of ‘Think or Ink’.

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Victory For Zammit Stevens: National Record For Rylee Borg

Victory For Zammit Stevens: National Record For Rylee Borg
Aug 22 2023 Share

This past weekend, the Malta Weightlifting Association organised the Malta Open Championships at the Cottonera Sport Complex, and gave many local athletes to shine once more. 

Among them was Yazmin Zammit Stevens, who won the Women Seniors group with 233 points and a total of 182kg. She was followed by Roberta Tabone with 228 points and 184kg total. 

Meanwhile, Rylee Borg won both the under 17 and under 20 age groups with 290 points. He set new national records in the 81kg category U17, U20 and U23 with a snatch of 109kg and 110kg on his extra attempt. 

 

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Many other weightlifters had their training pay off, with all the details being documented by the Malta Weight Lifting Association on their official website. 

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Malta’s Airport 4th Best In Europe For Queue Times

Malta's Airport 4th Best In Europe For Queue Times
Aug 22 2023 Share

According to Casago, a vacation rentals and property management company, has assessed the best and worst airports around the world in terms of queueing times, and Malta’s International Airport came in 4th place. 

‘To discover which airports are the best and worst for queueing times, Casago analysed passenger reviews from airlinequality.com, where each review gave queueing times a rating between 1 and 5 stars.’

When it came to Europe, Malta ranked in 4th, just after Germany’s Stutgart Airport and just before Portugal’s Porto Airport. 

Malta International Airport received an exact 60% rating in the % of 4 to 5 reviews, with the highest 66.67% given to Serbia’s Belgrade Airport. 

On the other end, France’s Grenoble Alpes Isere Airport received a mere 1.59% rating, the worst ranking for a European airport. In fact, France had 3 airports in the bottom cohort. 

However, that wasn’t all the Maltese were highlighted for. According to the key findings, people from Malta leave the fewest positive reviews (21.21% of 4 or 5 stars). The US is the second most to have its citizens leave the least amount of positive reviews at 24.96%. 

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