WATCH: Joseph Portelli receives a hero’s welcome during Hamrun feast

Aug 8 2022

As thousands convened to the streets of Ħamrun to celebrate the iconic San Gejtanu feast, entrepreneur and President of Ħamrun Spartans Joseph Portelli received nothing short of a hero’s welcome as he joined the celebrations.

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The business mogul has become highly associated with the locality after he became the president of the football club. He has been pivotal in the local team’s recent history, revamping it and giving it a major boost to its more recent successes.

And the locals were sure to show their appreciation for the Gozitan businessman whose passion for the game has been highlighted multiple times in various interviews.

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Valletta mayor condemns rubbish left in city centre after feast

Aug 8 2022

Valletta mayor Alfred Zammit took to Facebook to condemn the person or people who left a rubbish dump in the city centre after the massive festivities the city celebrated this past week.

The feast of Saint Dominic, one of the two feasts that Valletta celebrates, took place last Sunday and it was reportedly a huge success being the first proper feast they could hold since Covid-19.

In his post, Zammit said that a person with no respect left this massive dump in the city centre. He also criticised all those who instead of helping out took the opportunity to attack the Labour council and, according to him, damage the capital city even more.

He confirmed that the council, with the help of the cleaning department, took care of the issue and that they will partner up with the police department to try and find who was responsible for the unsanitary act.

To end the post he appealed to every Valletta citizen to further help out to continue making and keeping Valletta cleaner.

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WATCH: Massive crowds gather in Ħamrun to celebrate local ‘festa’

Aug 8 2022

Thousands of people took to the streets of Ħamrun yesterday, Sunday 7th August, to celebrate the traditional Sunday afternoon festa march.

Celebrating patron saint St Gejtanu, the feast is renowned for attracting not only Ħamrun residents but also others from different localities.

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The colours of red and blue coloured the streets, with these being associated with the two band clubs of San Ġużepp and San Gejtanu.

The festa goers, who were finally celebrating their beloved feast following a long hiatus due to COVID-19, made sure to enjoy the celebrations to the fullest whilst also keeping an important part of Maltese culture alive.

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Maltese makeup artist creates orc design for new Lord of the Rings series

Aug 8 2022

As the new Lord of the Rings series ‘The Rings of Power’ is set for an Amazon September premiere, a Maltese makeup artist’s take on one of the characters took social media by storm.

Henry Galea, known for his TikTok and Instagram videos bringing characters to life, was asked by Prime Video’s team to create one of the iconic designs for the malicious race of orcs in the series.

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Galea’s talent was picked up whilst he was involved with the ACM Awards in Las Vegas. They promptly urged him not to post any Rings of Power related content before they reached out to him to ask him to create one of the many designs.

After some tweaking and a lot of creative work, Galea’s design was released to the world and promptly featured on posters shown worldwide. Following strict guidelines, Galea had came up with a design for what is the next massive instalment in the J.R.R Tolkien adaptations.

Amazon bought the TV rights for The Lord of the Rings for around $250 million in 2017, committing to a five season worth at least $1 billion. This makes it the most expensive television series ever made.

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