Things you need to stop doing before the start of 2022 | by Ed’s Common Sense

Dec 12 2021

The new year is almost with us and with it, left-over Christmas meals, a few resolutions and renewed sense of motivation towards life. Let us enter the new year with our priorities straight and leave all the negative thoughts behind us in what was quite a demanding 2021. This week, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Dr. Edward Curmi lets us know the things we need to stop doing before the start of 2022.

Dr. Edward Curmi is also the author of 2 self-help books titled Ed’s Common Sense.

9 signs that you are an overthinker

Stop trying to please everyone around you.

Stop being available 24/7 for people who wouldn’t go out of their way for you.

9 signs that you are an overthinker

Stop Comparing yourself to others in real life or online.

Stop getting into relationships that are obviously not good for you.

Stop caring so much about what other people think of you.

Stop thinking about your past mistakes or how you could have done things differently.

9 signs that you are an overthinker

Stop worrying about things in the future especially when you have no control over them.

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Interest free loans for farmers to buy leased land proposed by PN

Dec 12 2021

The Nationalist Party said that farmers should be given the opportunity to buy their leased agricultural land through interest free loans.

Edwin Vassallo, PN MP, state that if the party were to take up government, it would set up a national fund offering bank guarantees to farmers who till agricultural land.

Following a constitutional court judgement that ruled in favour of landowners, many farmers have cried out saying that they risk being evacuated from fields that they lease.

The government has promised to revise agricultural land lease laws to ensure the farmers are not forced off their lands, but the legal form has not yet materialised.

The PN said that it wants to see this revised law passed without further delay and that its proposal to offer farmers he interest free loans would ensure that they could keep their land without discriminating agains the property rights of landowners.

An aid scheme is also being proposed by the Opposition which will see the covering of 70% of ground rent costs for farmers, provided they can prove they used the land to grow locally sold fruits and vegetables.

The party’s proposals, Vassal said, would be entirely voluntary and would not impinge on any private agreements that farmers and landowners might reach.

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Photo Source: Edwin Vassallo FB, Friends of Earth Malta

Many calling for Teatru Rjal to be rebuilt in pre-War fashion

Dec 12 2021

The Malta Arts Council issued a study which shows that the majority of Maltese are in favour of Pjazza Teatru Rjal receiving an architectural revamp similar to how it was before the bombing of World War II.

The reconstruction seems to have taken the majority, but there are other proposals which people are also putting forward to be considered by authorities as long as the theatre has a roof.

A copy of the study results was acquired by TVM, revealing that almost two thirds of respondents want a change in Pjazza Teatru Rjal Structure.

Another proposal which is acceptable to the study’s participants is one wherein the theatre has a retractable roof according to weather conditions.

This is followed by a third most preferred option which calls for the theatre becoming an indoor theatre. The least acceptable proposal among 600 participants is that the theatre is built with glass surroundings.

Only three out of every ten participants said that they attended for an activity at the theatre occasionally, with a majority saying they enjoyed the activity.

Two thirds of the theatre goers said they want more concerts, while over a third of those who occasionally attended an activity said that the events programme can be better planned.

On the other hand, persons who never attended an activity at Pjazza Teatru Rjal said they did so because there weren’t activities of interest to them.

Culture Minister Jose Herrera said that the survey is being evaluated.

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Photo Source: Wikipedia

Prime Minister’s sister-in-law announces she will contest general election

Dec 12 2021

Alison Zerafa Civelli, Bormla’s mayor and Prime Minister’s wife Lydia Abela’s sister, has announced she will contest the upcoming general election on the Labour Party ticket in the second district.

Posting to Facebook on Sunday morning, Zerafa Civelli revealed her running for the general election. She joins a very long list of candidates on this same district – including Glenn Bedingfield, Oliver Scicluna, Byron Camilleri, Clyde Caruana, Chris Agius, Joe Mizzi and Robert Abela himself.

‘As a woman, a teacher, mayor and activist, I always did my best to carry out all that you have taught me, carry it out in practice and do what’s good for our families’ the post read, referring to the locality as a whole.

‘How could I therefore reject your call and the Labour Party’s call to take the next step and work for our district?’

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Photo Source: Lydia Abela IG, Alison Zerafa Civelli FB