Posts in the COVID-19 Category at j’accuse

Monetizing Disasters the Labour Way

July 21, 2021

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Minister Clayton Bartolo is not having a good week at the office. The tourism sector for which he is responsible is the playing ground for a huge dilemma that pits two different priorities of a nation against each other. On the one hand, the sector depends heavily on the free movement of persons into the…

New Rules on Travelling to Malta – Is a fantasy 14-day rule unjustly ruining travel plans?

July 14, 2021

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Jacques René Zammit

Most of yesterday’s post was based on public declarations of what the new measures for the 14th July would be as well as on the preliminary reactions by the Commission. The Legal Notice “Travel Ban (Extension to all Countries) (Amendment Number 4)” was published yesterday. As expected, the L.N. “fixes” the terms that had been…

The Foreign Legion

March 20, 2020

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Jacques René Zammit

There’s no two ways about this. Tackling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic requires a particularly well-honed toolset that is fully integrated with the global realities of today’s world. The by-now standard reaction in any nation wanting to brace itself and mitigate the impact of the virus is the dreaded lockdown. The nature of the…