Update 12.50pm
A small group of NGOs has distanced itself from proposals made by a civil society council to reform controversial charity laws and said it will report the matter to the Council of Europe.
The organisations that form the Volontarjat Action Group say the proposals, submitted by the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector last week, do not satisfy the minimum standards needed for NGOs to function properly.
While the MCVS proposals call for laws brought into force without consultation to be amended, the VAG says the legal notice introducing them should be completely revoked and redrafted from scratch.
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How best to do it
Question: which is the best model for a public service radio station to use for making a valid contribution to general national listenership ignorance?
Answer: follow the current PBS Radio Malta One Saturday morning schedule.
In essence, it goes something like this:
Wake-up time till 9am: silly pop music plus an anchorman uttering inanities.
9am to 11am: another silly disc jockey with a crazy (again just pop discs and inanities) programme called Ferrovija Mużikali.
Then, from 11am to noon: another guy up against it (the general popular acceptance) with another discs-only programme called Maltin Biss.
Environmental NGOs contesting a secretive deal which handed management of the Aħrax and Miżieb woodlands to hunting group FKNK have been denied legal standing b