Union calls for Gozitan nurses to be priority at Gozo hospital

Nov 16 2022

The Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) has threatened industrial action if foreign nurses are employed with the Gozo General Hospital instead of Gozitans currently working in Malta.

The union is calling upon the government to transfer the Gozitan nurses currently deployed in Malta back to the sister island so as to avoid Steward Health Care employing foreign nurses.

The MUMN described the emergency and operating room services as mediocre, and revealed that this forced Steward Health Care to ask for the transfer of five nurses from Malta to Gozo.

The health ministry reportedly refused the transfer and this, the union said, will force SHC to employ third country nationals. This also goes against the agreement which MUMN has with the Health Ministry since Gozitan nurses have a right to be transferred to Gozo General Hospitals.

The union is calling for greater respect to be shown towards Gozitan residents and nurses and said that the ‘nice words during the election campaign by Gozitan MPs that the Labour Party would prioritise Gozitans working in Gozo was just a gimmick based on false pretences.’

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Love Island Malta to hit Maltese TV screens in May 2023

Nov 16 2022

The news of Malta getting its own spin-off of hit TV series ‘Love Island’ is not a premature April Fool’s Joke… it’s actually happening.

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The Maltese version of global phenomenon Love Island will start airing on TVM in May 2023, with local company ‘Media Exclusive Limited’ taking over local production in collaboration with ITV studios.

Set in a spectacular villa somewhere in the Maltese islands, Love Island Malta will welcome a number of single individuals for search for love in a race against the clock.

Love Island Malta is expected to attract younger audiences to Maltese television whilst still appealing to users from different generations.

Do you plan on watching Love Island Malta?

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Artemis: NASA launches most powerful ever built rocket to the moon

Artemis: NASA launches most powerful rocket ever built to the moon

Nov 16 2022

NASA have officially launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the moon on Wednesday, kicking off the space agency’s flagship program, Artemis.

The Space Launch System (SLS), towering at 32-storeys, blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 01:47am with a record breaking 8.8 million pounds of thrust generated.

Fixed to the rocket was the Orion spaceship that will orbit Earth’s moon in a test run for later flights. This will then see the first woman and first person of colour to land on the moon by 2025.

Two previous attempts in August and September were aborted prior to launch because of technical difficulties. Now, the 25-day and 1.3 million mile trip marks NASA’s first few capable deep-space mission in 50 years.

The Orion spacecraft is expected to orbit around the moon for 6 days to collect data and allow mission controllers to assess the performance of the vessel.

America last sent astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo era, from 1969-1972. For mythology geeks, Apollo and Artemis are twin gods from the Greek Pantheon, with Orion being a huntsman just like Artemis.

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Missile that hit Poland might not have been fired from Russia, Biden suggests

Nov 16 2022

US President Joe Biden has told his allies that the missile which hit a Polish village and killed two people was unlikely to have been fired from Russia.

Poland’s military was put on high alert following the incident, with Biden’s comments coming after speaking with his Polish counterpart and NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki urged his compatriots to remain calm as Western leaders held an emergency roundtable at the G20 summit in Indonesia.

The leaders do not want to jump to conclusions despite expressing solidarity with Poland. Polish President Andrzej Duda said there is no convulsive evidence as to who launched the missile.

During the time of the Polish village explosion, Russian missiles were being fired on various Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv. Russia’s defence ministry claimed yesterday evening that it was not behind the blast and called it a deliberate provocation aimed at escalation.

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