Did you say clown?
Peregin built a narrative implying that we were in cahoots with government over the Central Link project - some weeks later, I bumped into him having lunch with Ian Borg
Saviour Balzan
19 July 2021, 6:30am
Former Lovin Malta CEO Chris Peregin
Chris Peregin’s decision to move to the Nationalist Party is his right but I cannot say I was surprised.
The PN has not denied that he will be on a wage of around 70K. Good for him. But who will pay him is of course more than just a curiosity, more so when Peregin has been so forthright about who funds the political parties.
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The Malta Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (MAGG) recently held a webinar entitled Elder Abuse in Malta: Myth or Reality, on the occasion of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. The aim of the webinar was to educate and alert people that elder abuse does exist. Indeed, it is considered a silent crime in many countries, given the under-reporting and the often “behind closed doors” nature of the abuse. This phenomenon prompted the title of the webinar, which was led by MAGG president Claudette Gauci and conducted by vice president Anthony Scerri.
The webinar hosted a plethora of distinguished speakers, none less distinguished than by the interventions of older persons from our community who delivered personal reflections on elder abuse or asked razor-sharp questions. One question posed “Why are we not involved in the decision-making processes that would influence our lives?”.
An amendment to make it possible to enforce a law that makes it compulsory on employers of more than 20 people to include 2% of disabled people in their workforce or pay a contribution was moved in Parliament on Tuesday by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana.
The Nationalist Opposition said it will be supporting the amendment.
Moving the second reading of a bill on the employment of people with disability, Caruana said that although it was currently compulsory for employers to include disabled people in their workforce, the clause was not enforceable and many employers ignored it.
The amendment will ensure that action would be taken against those who did so and refused to pay a contribution to make up for this.