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Peppi Azzopardi raises concerns after his mother with dementia was taken to vote

Peppi Azzopardi raises concerns after his mother with dementia was taken to vote
Mar 21 2022 Share

Local TV host Peppi Azzopardi has raised concerns after he discovered his elderly mother who suffers with dementia was taken to a polling booth to vote during the early voting rounds. 

Posting to Facebook, the host said that his mother, who is a St Vincent de Paule patient suffered from dementia and could not even recognise her own son. 

He said that in every matter which concerns her, Peppi and the rest of his family are always informed about the tiniest of things. However, he revealed that she was taken out of her ward to vote without her family’s consent. 

‘How could have done this without us being informed? Can I know what’s going on?’ The post resulted in similar cases being revealed through comments, highlighting a problem of elderly patients who are entitled to a voting document being escorted out of their wards to put in their ballot. 

The electoral commission allows families to request the halting of an incapacitated relative’s involvement in the voting process and sign them off the electoral register. However, in cases where patients are still issued a voting document, hospital staff are obliged by the Commission to allow the patients their democratic right to vote. 

Voting documents are not held by patients but instead collected by the hospital a day earlier from the Commission. 

Azzopardi’s post was replied to by one SVDP staff member, who said that he was present in the hospital wards during the voting. He said that the staff there worked during previous general elections and know their job well. ‘There was no form of pressure on people to vote. But you cannot deny people their right to vote. Rest assured that she was in good hands.’

He also insisted that without a court application for her incapacitation, any patient would have had their voting document issued, giving them voting rights. However, a dementia sufferer would not have been allowed to vote anyway, he said. 

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Luke Chappell’s new song added to official Spotify playlist with 1 million followers

Luke Chappell’s new song added to official Spotify playlist with 1 million followers
Mar 21 2022 Share

Luke Chappell’s brand new song ‘A house is not a home’ kicked off it’s debut being added onto an official Spotify editorial playlist. 

Chappell’s new song was released around 8 days ago, and before we knew it the song was featured on an official Spotify playlist alongside some massive indie artists like BENEE, Glass Animals and Milky Chance.

The playlist boasts a whopping 1,681,643 likes, and Luke Chappell momentarily shared playlist space with a significant amount of internationally-established artists. 

It’s not that Luke Chappell isn’t an already beloved local artist with some international music attention to his name, but this latest achievement on the streaming giant will only boost the artist’s portfolio more.

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Chinese plane with 132 people crashes and starts mountain fire

Chinese plane with 132 people crashes and starts mountain fire
Mar 21 2022 Share

A passenger plane carrying around 132 people crashed in souther China in the Guangxi province, sparking a mountainside fire in the process. 

The China Eastern Airlines flight, a Boeing 737, crashed near the city of Wuzhou in Teng County, Guangxi province. It departed at around 1pm but did not reach its scheduled destination in Guangzhou. 

Flight tracking data shows the plane dropping from radar signal to the south-west of Wuzhou shortly before 2:30pm local time. Civil Aviation Administration said it activated emergency protocols and sent a working group to the scene.

Rescuers had been dispatched but there were no immediate details of casualties among the 123 passengers and nine crew members. 

Uploaded photos and videos showed plumes of smoke from a mountainous region. A plane wreckage with the name ‘Chine Eastern Airline’ was shown among the trees, but Guardian has not independently verified the footage. 

China had otherwise enjoyed an enviable air safety record in recent years in a country filled with new airports and serviced by new airlines established to match the country’s breakneck growth. 

The last tragedy was a Henan Airlines flight crashing in northeastern Heilongjiang province in 2010, which killed at least 42 out of 92 people on board, but the final toll was never confirmed.

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TikTok artist Henry Galea models for Charles & Ron at LA Fashion Week

TikTok artist Henry Galea models for Charles & Ron at LA Fashion Week
Mar 21 2022 Share

Local fashion designers Charles and Ron took to social media to announce their new collection Fall/Winter 2022/23 titled ‘Cynosure’. 

This was not just any debut however as the collection was modelled on the runway at Los Angeles Fashion Week. Among the models for the catwalk was local TikTok and makeup artist Henry Galea. 

Henry had been officially chosen to join a foreign ClubHouse, moving to Los Angeles to chase his dream and collaborate with international artists. 

Henry had been constantly uploading creative works with LA artists, including Nikita Dragun – a globally-loved social media sensation and media guru. Boasting 6.1 million followers on the platform, Henry has been chasing his dream in the Southern California city, and his appearance on the Charles & Ron event continued to boost his climb to the top.

Writing on social media, Charles & Ron revealed that the inspiration for Cynosure came from 16th Century palace ‘Casa Rocca Piccola’ which is situated in Valletta. 

The fashion designers also revealed that to ‘truly encapsulate what it means to “do the extraordinary when you are least expected”, this collection is dedicated to our team of seamstresses in Malta and Ukraine and Head of Design – Marian Gofre’. 

 

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‘“Cynosure” is a message of beauty, love and peace. War should never be the answer’ they said. Each artist is pushing the limits of local creators reaching new heights internationally, inspiring others in the process. 

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