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Marsa: the future’s entertainment destination

The local council aspires to change the local plan, envisioning a more touristic town with hotels and restaurants accompanying industrial elements, and more consideration being given to Marsa’s infrastructural and social challenges. If you think it’s very remote that one day you will wake up and decide to book a luxury meal and, perhaps, an overnight stay in Marsa, think again. Only recently, Prime Minister Robert Abela reaffirmed, during a political event in this south-eastern town, that there...
The Journal | posted today
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Dreaming of a green Christmas

Sustainability during the holiday season goes beyond purchasing eco-friendly items. It’s about you, being human on a planet, and embracing the responsibility that comes with that very fact. ’Tis the season to be jolly. But why should this be the season in which we negatively impact the environment to respect our Christmas traditions? In practical terms, we can avoid creating excessive rubbish this festive season. Local NGO ‘Żibel’ tells The Journal’s...
The Journal | posted yesterday
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An innovative, ambitious vision for Gozo

Through the first regional development strategy, for the first time in many years Gozitans have been given the ability to come up with a set of economic and social goals and the means of achieving them. Between 2000 and 2008, Gozo’s GDP per capita in purchasing power parity terms fell from 59% of the EU average to 48%. By 2012, it had gone up to just 50% and it took until 2017 for Gozo’s prosperity in relation to the EU average to return to what it had been in 2000....
The Journal | 02/12/2023
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From minimum wage to living wage

Taken together, the additional mechanism against inflation and the generous increase in the children’s allowance and in the in-work benefit are bringing those on low incomes closer to the concept of a living wage. In recent years there has been a lot of discussion on the concept of the living wage. The latter is meant to ensure that a person working for 40 hours a week can afford the basics for a modest but decent life with no additional income. For instance, in the UK, the...
The Journal | 30/11/2023
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A low-quality toy story

In 2021 the MCCAA purchased and tested 20 toys from non-EU online marketplaces. No less than 19 of these failed to meet the requirements specified in the EU’s Toy Safety Directive. Making online purchases has never been more attractive. Not only are thousands of products being constantly advertised on our devices whether we like it or not, but they are potentially cheaper and save us the hassle of having to bus, walk, or drive from outlet to...
The Journal | 29/11/2023
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Our Christmas weather forecast

The closest Malta can ever get to a Christmas-card type of ‘White Christmas’ is if we have a bout of soft hail or snow pellets – also known as graupel. “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas.” That’s what Irving Berlin sang in 1942 for the film Holiday Inn, filmed in the US. Here in Malta, his dream of “sleigh bells in the snow” would have remained just that – a dream. Will the white Christmas phenomenon ever be possible...
The Journal | 28/11/2023

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