Tourists in quarantine to pay €1,400 per room

Jul 14 2021

The Malta Tourism Authority issued a post following the recent legal notices in terms of travel to Malta. Anyone visiting the island without the vaccination certificate will be subject to mandatory quarantine in a hotel and will be subject to a minimum accommodation cost of €1,400 per room. Provided that any person who cannot take the vaccine for medical reasons and any person between 5 and 11-years-old shall not be required to submit to quarantine provided they show evidence of a negative PCR test.

The same applies to Maltese residents who had booked flights prior to the issuing of this new regulation. Coming into effect today Wednesday 14th July 2021, the rules initially banned anyone without a vaccine certificate from coming to Malta. The regulations were changed hours before the date of the implementation.

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Photo Source: VacancyCentre

AFM rescue 81 migrants but find three dead on boat

Jul 14 2021

81 migrants who were in distress on a boat in Malta’s search and rescue zone were rescued by the Armed Forces of Malta. Three migrants were however found dead on the boat. NGO Sea-Watch insisted the rescue was delayed, calling for an independent investigation of the case.

Of these migrants, five were women and three children. The dead migrants’ bodies were brought to shore. The boat allegedly departed from Libya, with the rescue operation taking place on the eastern side of Tunisia. The NGO also said that despite there being three ships in the vicinity of the migrants, Malta ordered at least one of these boats to wait and not rescue immediately.

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Photo Source: Sea Watch FB

Over 25,000 tourists visited Malta in May 2021

Jul 14 2021

Malta was visited by well over 25,000 tourists in May of 2021. The National Statistics Office revealed the total number as having reached 25,954, spending a total of 283,769 nights on the island. 20,105 visitors came on holiday to Malta, with 4,126 coming on business and nearly half of the arrivals (46.1%) coming from France and Italy. Malta officially restarted its tourism in June, but flights to Malta were available in May.

Arrivals still have to follow strict procedures, with unvaccinated travellers required to undergo a mandatory quarantine upon arrival as of today, Wednesday 14th July. The average stay for visitors in May ranked at around 10.9 months, with rented accommodation establishments seeing the largest share of guest nights. The total expenditure reached around €21.1 million, with €9.2 million spent on non-package expenditure and €9.3 million on other expenditure.

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PL candidate Chris Bonett expresses his thoughts on Peregin’s joining the PN

Jul 14 2021

PL candidate Chris Bonett took to Facebook to express his thoughts on the news that Lovin Malta CEO Christian Peregin will be joining the ranks the Nationalist Party. He started by pointing out that Peregin, who he has allegedly known for around two decades, possessed one of the qualities Bonett disliked most. This is in reference to, according to Bonett, Peregin’s alleged neutrality when ‘everyone’ knows they are not. He goes on to state that Peregin was not just in favour of the Nationalist Party but also pretended to be anti-PN in order to get in on information.

Bonett goes on to state that he has several friends from the Oppositional party, despite being in constant disagreement with them. He considers them as friends and people of principle for being open about their values and ideas. For Bonett, however, Peregin is not one of these individuals. He brands Peregin as being part of a ‘specific group of Nationalists’ who look at those in favour of Labour as being ‘dirty and ignorant.’

He goes on to say that he is glad that Peregin ‘removed his mask and showed his allegiances.’ Bonett claims that it will be difficult for Peregin to have any credibility since he always attempted to hold a neutral position. He concludes by saying that Lovin Malta ‘can now close its doors… since now there is confirmation that it is nothing more than just another PN media outlet.’

He asks whether the genuine Nationalists who operate the publishing house which Peregin fought against would now lose their jobs? He asks whether they would now have to answer to Peregin, and whether or not Peregin can now reconfirm his opinion that partisan media houses should close down.

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Photo Source: Chris Bonett FB, Chris Peregin FB