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The Weeknd wins Halloween with the perfect Godfather costume

The Weeknd wins Halloween with the perfect Godfather costume
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Sorry everyone but Halloween has established it’s best costume of the year as The Weeknd rocked the absolute best Marlon Brando’s The Godfather depiction ever. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, a.k.a The Weeknd, has come equipped with professional help to get the perfect look, posting it to social media and captioning it with ‘The don is coming’. The photos have racked up more than 80,000 likes, but this is to be expected as no one really does Halloween like Abel does it.

The singer just does not mess around when it comes to Halloween, showing exactly how much fun celebrities have with the festivities. In 2020, he dressed up as the Nutty Professor and became unrecognizable another year when he donned the Jack Nicholson Joker mantle. But this Godfather costume takes the absolute cake, as everything from the aging wrinkles and iconic character grin were incorporated to his 2021 costume.

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Photo Source: The Weeknd Twitter

PN pledges grants for home CCTV and increase in policing

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The Nationalist Party has pledged to offer more grants for people to be able to install CCTV and other security systems in their homes should it be elected to government. Home Affairs spokesperson Beppe Fenech Adami spoke during a press conference and outlined some proposals which aim to boost security within Malta’s communities. He was accompanied by candidates Errol Cutajar, Graziella Galea and Darren Carabott.

The list of proposals contain everything from measures which would have all of Malta’s police stations reopened within 24 months of the party returning to government, and each station sufficiently staffed and equipped. Despite authorities insisting that there is still a police presence in each locality, some stations have been closed in recent years.

Fenech Adami stated the country’s youth were not attracted to a career in policing because of ‘impunity culture’ in the country as well as the working conditions, which the speaker stated the youngsters described as inadequate. With an average of 12 theft reports everyday, the PN MP said that the elderly across Malta are increasingly afraid to leave their homes.

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Photo Source: Malta Police Force, Beppe Fenech Adami

New extensions to elderly home visiting hours

New extensions to elderly home visiting hours
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As more and more COVID-19 health measures continue to be relaxed, the Health Authorities have announced that visiting hours at elderly homes have received a significant extension. Previously, the timeframe possible for a visit to one’s elders in a home racked at 90 minutes. Now, health authorities have pumped it up to four hours should one visit during the afternoon. In the morning, people will still be given 60 minutes for a visit, with up to two visitors during each session.

The Ministry for the Elderly highlighted how visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 as regulations for unvaccinated visitors remain the same. This relaxation comes as the drive to administer more vaccine boosters picks ups speed, with Prime Minister Robert Abela revealing that over 50,000 booster shots have been administered.

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Student teachers shocked with last minute changes due to shortage

Student teachers shocked with last minute changes due to shortage
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Student teachers are being left frustrated as many of them are experiencing a last-minute decision by the Education Department to change their school placements, just a week before they were meant to kick off their practice. The Malta Independent reported that a total of 16 students are frustrated over the fact that their classes shifted at the last minute due to the Education Department trying to make up for the primary school teacher shortage. The newsroom stated that, in speaking with a number of students reading for their Masters in Teaching and Learning at the University of Malta, they are seeing the situation as treating them utterly unfairly.

Even though these student teachers need to prepare a whole host of content and material for their classes, they are being advised with just a week’s notice of this sudden change. Some of the affected Heads of Schools were not even aware of this change, the spokespersons alleged. Making reference to claims made by the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT), the spokespersons told the newsroom that, allegedly, peripatetic teachers in some schools were informed to keep teaching their peripatetic subjects as student-teachers will be taking on students who have no class teacher.

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Photo Source: Chalkbeat