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A global pandemic, two leadership elections, and the continuing repercussions of a journalist’s murder: it has been a tumultuous year. But it wasn’t always the big stories that left their mark on Times of Malta journalists. Here they choose the stories that resonated most with them in 2020. A windfarm in Montenegro Jacob Borg Having written countless stories about corruption over the years, there was one in 2020 that stood out for its immediate political impact. The Montenegro wind farm story showed how businessman Yorgen Fenech’s secret company 17 Black was quietly used to profit from a project that had long been mired in suspicions of corruption. ....
In a wrap-up of the year that was, Fiona Galea Debono looks at 2020 through the eyes of some key players behind the pandemic. Like a ‘tsunami’ with a ‘colossal’ impact on health, the economy, tourism, education and each of us, this is how the novel coronavirus hit Malta and the outlook for the future. It all started with the first cases on March 7 and the world as we knew it crashed. The pandemic had invaded Malta and a partial lockdown kicked in at the end of that month. A brief summer lull was fast followed by the spike of the ‘secondwave’ as mixed messages led the public to let down their guard and mass gatherings opened the way for the virus to spread. ....
Actress Marama Corlett points to her “werewolf qualities” when her “Maltese temper emerges” to explain to Fiona Galea Debono why she secured a lead role in BBC America’s forthcoming wild fantasy The Watch. The pandemic may have taken its toll on the arts, but 2020 has also been the year Maltese actress Marama Corlett secured a breakout role in a series inspired by Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, due to hit BBC America’s screens in January. It is by no means the young actress’s first brush with international TV channels, and she has accumulated a list of acting roles for cinema and theatre as well. But Corlett considers being trusted with one of the bestselling author’s beloved characters in The Watch “a privilege”. ....