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Cartoonists draw on Malta for inspiration
Pens in hand, ready to draw inspiration from their surroundings, a group of some 20 cartoonists have been going round the island meeting locals and sketching cartoons of these encounters. Speaking to this newspaper during a week-long convention, the Malta Mighty Minicon 6, members of the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain ...
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Spagna Malta
Chris Cardona supports law banishing garnishee orders on journalists - Owen Bonnici
Minister for the Economy Chris Cardona was among the cabinet members who supported Minister Owen Bonnici on a bill which will revamp the press law, which includes the removal of the possibility of an aggrieved party demanding a court order to freeze a journalist’s assets.The support was shown even last ...
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Simon Busuttil tears up Electrogas contracts in criticism of the amount of redactions
Today's fiery Parliamentary debate over a PN motion relating to government contracts related to the Delimara power station saw both sides take quite an aggressive stance, with Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil, who was the last to speak, tearing up the contracts because the redacted parts were the most important, and members ...
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Editorial - PANA Committee: Mizzi, Schembri no-show will send very bad message indeed
All in all, just about everyone in Malta who has been invited to speak with the European Parliament’s PANA Committee when it comes to town next week has accepted the invitation – from the finance minister to the police commissioner and from the Financial Intelligence Analysis Authority to the Malta ...
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Malta
Government expenditure on stipends increases by over €3.3m over last four years
The Government increased its investment in the stipend system by over €3.3 million when compared to the amount spent in 2012, with total expenditure for 2016 amounting to €25.8 million. This was stated by Minister for Finance Edward Scicluna and Minister for Education and Employment Evarist Bartolo at the Malta ...
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Democrats want documents preserved on any Russian contacts
Senate Democrats on Thursday asked the White House and law enforcement agencies to preserve all materials related to contacts between Russians and individuals associated with President Donald Trump.The nine Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to White House counsel Donald McGahn, and wrote similar letters to ...
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Trump's contempt for trade deals spurs anxiety: What's next?
Not even a month into his presidency, Donald Trump is moving to dismantle seven decades of American policy built on trade deals and multinational alliances that help fuel the U.S. and global economies.And no one is sure what will replace them.The void risks intensifying uncertainty at home and abroad. Without ...
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Spagna Malta
Chris Cardona’s support for new press law is proof of government hypocrisy - PN
Nationalist Party Deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami said that Minister Owen Bonnici's comments to The Malta Independent regarding the fact that Minister Chris Cardona was one of the ministers who supported the bill which bans garnishee orders on journalists is a proof of the fallacy and hypocrisy of the "corrupt ...
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Spagna Malta
OSCE representative urges protection of independent journalists, free expression
Intimidating journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia could restrict public debate and diminish media freedom in Malta, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today.“I follow with concern media reports of the pressure on Caruana Galizia for her critical work,” Mijatović said. “It is the job of journalists to ...
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PM defends government’s track record guaranteeing freedom of expression
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said that he will not allow anybody to tarnish the reputation of the government by saying there is no freedom of expression when asked about garnishee orders against the press, and the hypocrisy of banning this following Economy Chris Cardona’s decision to institute one against journalist ...