The Identified Stranger ?? … no thanks

So here we are, into our 4th day of the new year. Well that’s just about the only new thing there is..the last digit..200-9.

   -   UMASA / MUT vs GOV continues…except finally the students are voicing their opinions more; a rally next Wednesday at 10am at university, for all those interested. Well you should be, you’re being used as a bargaining tool =]..sad indeed.

  -   A panicked civilian at a petrol station frantically calls police when seeing what looked liked an armed robbery  - turned out, it was a production by ONE television. Added a bit more spice to the show ah!

  -  A man who allegedly threatened to kill his girlfriend’s father on New Year’s Day *sighh* was given bail the day after.

  - Projects continue on turning the ruins of what used to be a magnificent, breath taking theatre, into a parliament. Well, at least we should thank God it’s Renzo Piano. Or should we? Well he was one of the minds behind the French Centre Pompidou..oqo..

  - PN claims that 2009 budget is focused on 3 major values, ir-responsabbilta`, is-sostenibbilta` u s-solidarjeta`…and it is offering €362 million for our education. (Please keep in mind that at this point in time they havent even settled lecturers’ salaries yet.)

  - Joseph Muscat of PL ( 2009 got rid of MLP, off to PL now ) claims that PL is offering the direction to success in 2009 ( about time..? ) and that PL ” ha jkun l-istandard bearer ta’ pajjizna”. - Mohhna mistrieh mela!

  - JUST THIS MORNING: Two armed and hooded men broke a window to enter a hotel in il-Qaliet Street, Marsascala and fired a shot at the cash register stealing not more than €3,000. Of course they fled in a vehicle and an inquiry is being held…well done.

  These 7 points, are just a very brief outline of what happened in Malta in the past 4 days..just in case any of you were worrying that this tiny, traditional island, full of values and virtues, was changing at the beginning of a New Year.