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WEDNESDAY • 27 JULY 2022 • ISSUE 804 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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Opposition to once
again push anti-
corruption Bills when
Parliament reopens
Cancer patients to be
flown to Rome after
faults in radiotherapy
equipment
Malta exempt from
mandatory European
gas reductions
School headmaster who
championed inclusivity
is fired by Dominicans
JAMES DEBONO
A popular head of school who has served
as an ADPD politician for the last two
decades, was fired from St Albert the
Great College by the Dominican Order.
Mario Mallia spent 16 years serving as
the Valletta school's head of school after
three years in the deputy role.
Mallia was accused of "usurping the
school property" for allowing the Elec-
toral Commission to use the school as a
polling station against payment, in a bid
to alleviate the hardship of elderly voters
having to walk to Fort St Elmo, as well
as for "aggravated insubordination" after
insisting to have college staff represented
on a new board that liaises with the Do-
minican province of Malta.
The Order even cited misgivings over
his curriculum programme aimed at fos-
tering dialogue between children of dif-
ferent faiths, and for creating a coopera-
tive for former college students who have
a disability, to run the school canteen.
In its original warning last month, while
Mallia was still recovering from COV-
ID-19, the Dominican order expressed
discomfort at his political involvement as
an Alternattiva Demokratika official.
Mario Mallia
