The new Executive Committee for the year 2010-2011 was elected during the Annual General Assembly of the National Youth Council (KNZ) held on the 20th March at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana. The Council has eleven new members who have been elected for the first time, amongst them are four from Gozo. The members of the Executive [...]...

On Friday, the 26th of March, Bishop Emeritus, His Lordship Nichol J. Cauchi, will deliver a Lenten talk at the Circolo Gozitano’s premises at 6, Sir Adrian Dingli Street, Victoria, Gozo. In his talk, Monsignor Cauchi will be dealing with some of the themes contained in Pope Benedict’s encyclical ‘Caritas in Veritate’ (Charity in Truth). This [...]...

Today, everybody recognises the crucial need for a small country like ours to exploit to the maximum its very limited resources. Agricultural land is a declining resource in the Maltese Islands and work in agriculture is a calling that is being shunned by many of the younger generation so that today, the vast majority of [...]...

GO has announced that its Board of Directors has approved the initial phases of an investment programme which will start this year to roll out next generation networks, specifically in the mobile network and in the fixed network through which broadband internet is provided and through which other applications will be provided in the near [...]...

The European Commission has adopted new rules to make it easier for passengers and crew on ships in the EU’s territorial waters to make mobile phone calls or send and receive text messages when they are out of range of land-based mobile phone networks. The new rules harmonise the technical and legal conditions for on-board [...]...

The annual Collective Art Exhibition and Antique Furniture Exhibition organised by Inspire (The Eden and Razzett Foundation) in Victoria, Gozo is a crowd-puller and a long awaited yearly event by art lovers.The exhibition is hosted in a typical Gozitan town house which is an attraction in itself, number 8 Republic Street, which is opposite the [...]...

Four artists have come together to present their latest artworks to the public in Gozo during the Easter week. Between the 27th March and the 4th April 2010: Justin Falzon, Simon Portelli, Hermine A Sammut and Christine X will be displaying their artworks at 46, ‘Tas-Sallura’, a 300 year old farmhouse in Triq il-Fanal, Ghasri, [...]...

Ghaqda Drammatika Xewkija have announced another great theatrical production, this time with the interpretation of “Il-Libsa ta’ Kristu,” written by John Cremona based on the novel “The Robe,” by LLoyd C. Douglas. The story is based upon the myth of the robe wore by Jesus Christ during his passion and by its miraculous effects it had [...]...

More than 700 kg of municipal waste per person was generated in 2008 in Denmark, Ireland, Cyprus and Luxembourg. Malta and Gozo, the Netherlands and Austria had values between 600 and 700 kg per person and Germany, Estonia, Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom between 500 and 600 kg per person. The [...]...

Nature Trust Malta said that next Saturday, March the 27th, at 8:30 pm local time, families in over 100 countries will turn off the lights on pollution and climate change. Families are using Earth Hour as a way to teach children the importance of conservation and how they can help save the planet. This is [...]...