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The Emergency Fund for voluntary organisations has been extended

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The Parliamentary Secretariat for Sport, Recreation and Voluntary Organisations has just announced that the €150,000 fund for voluntary organisations has just been extended.

This comes as a result the spread of COVID-19 in Malta and its effects on the operations of said organisations, with Parliamentary Secretary Clifton Grima reporting that more than 125 organisations have already benefitted from the fund.

The Parliamentary Secretary went on to state that this fund exhibits the Government’s enthusiasm for voluntary work, even in such challenging times.

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Foreigners may be banned from Amsterdam coffee shops after new proposal

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Foreigners travelling to Amsterdam could be banned from coffee shops following a proposal from the city’s mayor to decreased local organised crime and drug tourism.

Mayor Femke Halsema put forward a proposal which only allows Dutch citizens to enter cannabis coffee shops in a measure which is already supported by police and prosecutors.

If the proposal is accepted and a law passes, foreigners will not be able to enter the 166 Amsterdam coffee shops from some point next year.

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Gavin Gulia officially elected to Parliament

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The Chairman of the Malta Tourism Authority, Gavin Gulia has been elected to occupy the seat vacated by the current governor of Central Bank Edward Scicluna.

Gulia beat Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando with 1,486 votes against JPO’s 1,479, with Charles Azzopardi being ousted early on in the race.

Dr. Gulia served a short stint as Justice minister in 1998 and will return to Parliament for the first time since 2013.

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240 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 80 recoveries

67 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 323 recoveries
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Malta has registered 240 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 3,354 swab tests, while 80 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

From yesterday’s cases; 42 cases were family members of previously known cases, 11 cases were contact of positive work colleagues, 6 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases and 11 cases were from social gatherings with other positive cases.

To date, Malta has registered 14,769 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 12,016 have recovered, 234 died and 2,519 are still active.

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