Strong winds to hit Malta as from today

Apr 22 2021

The Meteorological Office of Malta has warned that strong winds will be hitting the island starting from today and getting progressively stronger closer to the weekend. The southeastern winds slowly transitioning to northeastern will be increasing on a daily basis.

The strong winds come with warnings from the meteorological office for the public to avoid any areas where winds are more likely to cause substantial damage. People are also advised not to park under trees in case of uprooting.

Thursday and Friday will not be seeing any sunlight as they are also set to be very cloudy with chances of rain on Thursday.

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33 COVID-19 cases registered with 36 recoveries

Apr 22 2021

Malta has registered 33 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,129 swab tests, while 36 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

As of Thursday 22nd April 2021, 295,587 vaccine doses were administered of which 93,727 were 2nd doses.

To date, Malta has registered 30,096 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 29,166 have recovered, 411 died and 519 are still active.

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The Sovereign Art Foundation reveals Student Prize winners

Apr 22 2021

After receiving a record number of over 80 art submissions across Malta & Gozo and having 20 finalists handpicked by an international judging panel, The Sovereign Art Foundation has finally revealed its 2021 prize winners!

Despite not being able to showcase the art pieces in public due to government restrictions, an online exhibition via Facebook and their website allowed the public to vote for their favourite works, with ‘Me, Myself and I’ by Ylenia Schembri from The Malta Visual and Performing Arts School and ‘Pensive Mood’ by Rana Sanugha from Maria Regina College emerging as winners.

The winners will represent Malta in the SAF Global Student Prize 2022 and have not only received a monetary prize of their own but secured a cool €2000 and €1000 respectively for the development of their art departments.

We are so proud to announce the first Judges Prize Winner of 2021… 𝗬𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗶 for her work 𝘔𝘦, 𝘔𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘥…

Posted by The Sovereign Art Foundation Students Prizes on Wednesday, 21 April 2021

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Cash-for-passport scheme reveals residency loophole in Malta

Apr 22 2021

Unrestricted access to the EU via a Maltese cash-for-passport scheme has been granted to rich foreigner. The leak from a passport brokerage has revealed the information, also adding that the individuals involved need only spend less than three weeks in Malta. Thousands of emails’ caches from Henley and Partners gave a glimpse into how the ‘golden passport’ schemes operate. ‘Golden passport scheme’ refers to the mechanism by which countries sell citizenship to wealthy foreigners.

The applicants simply created a pretence that they were Maltese ‘residents’ for a full year by renting apartments and leaving them empty. Some customers allegedly paid more than €1 million under the scheme, successfully claiming they had a genuine link to Malta. The European Commission was alarmed by these disclosures, with the initial steps of potential proceedings against Malta being put into effect.

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