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WEDNESDAY • 28 JUNE 2023 • ISSUE 850 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
EDITORIAL • PAGE 11
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5 reasons
why abortion
U-turn has
diminished
Abela
Ministers
unveil
changes
to protect
artistic
expression
JAMES DEBONO
A case officer report is recom-
mending the approval of a 22m
diameter roundabout between
the access to Manoel Island and
the Gzira promenade.
The landscaped roundabout,
with two carriageways, will permit
uninterrupted traffic flow from
Gzira to Sliema and vice versa and
facilitate access to Manoel Island.
This proposed junction was a
condition imposed by Transport
Malta in the master plan for the
Manoel Island project approved
in 2021.
The new traffic infrastructure
also foresees the removal of part
of the existing central strip, the
introduction of two carriageways,
the widening of public pavements,
six zebra crossings and a new
bridge to connect Manoel Island
to the mainland.
KARL AZZOPARDI
GOVERNMENT has put forward
legal amendments to protect ar-
tistic expression from spurious
criminal complaints based on
laws that make it illegal to utter
insults and threats.
The two amendments will intro-
duce a new proviso in the Crimi-
nal Code and the Electronic Com-
munications Act to clarify that
the law "shall not hinder artistic,
satirical or comic expression".
New bridge,
roundabout
to link Gzira
promenade to
Manoel Island
Photomontage showing the new bridge which will link Manoel Island to the
Gzira promenade
Ultra-endurance athlete and
clean seas activist Neil Agius
was forced to abandon a never-
before-attempted 100-mile
swim from Mallorca to Ibiza,
after encountering a swarm of
jellyfish. At 3:56am on Tuesday,
Agius was forced to abandon his
100-mile swim challeng, having
been stung around 60 times.
Agius entered the swarm 46km
into the swim in the Mallorca-
Ibiza channel at around 1am.
Jellyfish force
Agius to abandon
Mallorca to Ibiza
swimming record
attempt
