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14.11.19 2 NEWS OVER the past six days, the local Gam- ing Industry hosted an edition of the Responsible Gambling Week, in Malta. is campaign, held in collaboration with the MGA, iGEN, leading opera- tors, Bournemouth University and the organisers of the annual Responsible Gambling Week which is held in the UK, aimed to highlight the importance of ensuring that gambling remains a sustainable means of entertainment, whereby gambling operators provide their players with all tools required in order for them to play in a safe and re- sponsible manner. roughout this week, various oper- ators hosted daily sessions in their re- spective offices in order to share best practices, and to discuss ways in which they may collaborate to further improve their efforts on this front. e topics included research in re- sponsible gambling communications with at-risk consumers, suicide aware- ness and prevention training, and the provision of responsible gambling staff training. On the final day of the Responsible Gambling Week, licensees were invit- ed to air their views and share their re- spective experiences on several topical issues within the responsible gaming sphere, such as self-exclusion, respon- sible game design, and their experience with researchers. e MGA supported this initiative by hosting this final session of the Week at its premises. e MGA's Senior Counsel for Legal, International Affairs and Policy, Yanica Sant, noted that: ""We are very pleased to see the industry take the initiative to share best practices with the aim of collectively improving the protection granted to players. T he MGA acknowledges that it must work together with the industry in or- der to continue developing an increas- ingly safe environment for players. e ideas gathered from this final session will be reflected in our responsible gam- ing and player protection strategy for the coming years. MGA hosts final session of the first Malta Responsible Gambling Week DAVID HUDSON THE Opposition is calling on the Prime Minister to shoulder political responsi- bility and remove his chief of staff Keith Schembri in a parliamentary motion presented today. Opposition leader Adrian Delia said the Nationalist Party parliamentary group unanimously agreed on the mo- tion seeking Schembri's removal from public office after what happened in court on Monday. "e situation is surreal… in our coun- try there are people who use the courts to give the impression that certain things aren't what they are but then es- cape testifying. is is an admission of wrongdoing," Delia told journalists after presenting the parliamentary motion. e PN leader told MaltaToday that he and the party would also be joining Repubblika's protest on corruption next Saturday. is would be the first time that Delia would join in what is slated as the other half of the divided PN in an anti-cor- ruption protest. "e behaviour of Schembri goes against the principles and standards that this House agreed to when it voted on the new Office for the Commissioner for Standards," Delia said. He added that with Schembri retain- ing public office, he was not just damag- ing the Labour Party or the government but the country as a whole. He admitted that he wasn't hopeful that the motion would pass when pre- sented in Parliament. e PN is seeking to remove Schembri from his public post as chief of staff in the Office of the Prime Minister, after the latter withdrew a libel case not to answer questions on 17 Black. On Monday, Schembri withdrew libel proceedings against former Opposition leader Simon Busuttil after refusing to answer questions on Dubai company 17 Black that had been indicated as a tar- get client for his Panama company. 17 Black is owned by Yorgen Fenech, one of the shareholders in the Electro- gas power station. After being warned repeatedly by the court that he could not refuse to an- swer, Schembri decided to drop the case, avoiding the possibility of being cross-examined on the matter. PN to seek Keith Schembri's removal through parliamentary motion

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