The Gaia Foundation and Sharklab recently held an Awareness Weekend of fun and interesting activities at Ramla Bay in Gozo, which proved to be a great success. Unfortunately, the strong winds prevented the organisers from doing the planned boat trips, however, there were educational games for adults and children, they also carried out a sand [...]
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Ramla Awareness Weekend of fun with Gaia and Sharklab
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TM launches annual safety at sea campaign in Gozo & Malta
Transport Malta has recently launched its Safety at Seas campaign, which aims at educating boat owners to enjoy their pastime in a responsible way and in full respect of regulations and swimmers. There are seven bays in Gozo and three in Comino, the list is shown below. The re-establishment of 47 Swimmers’ Zones around the [...]
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‘Awareness Raising Day’ at Ramla with Gaia and Sharklab
The Gaia Foundation and Sharklab are organising another fun day at Ramla Beach in Gozo, with an ‘Awareness Raising Day,’ the last of 4 events involving educational boat trips around the coast, games, clean-ups and other awareness raising activities. Following on from the success of the weekend event held at Ramla in June, there will [...]
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Gaia and Sharklab ‘Awareness Raising Day’ at Ramla Beach
Last Saturday the Gaia Foundation and Sharklab organised another fun activity at Ramla Beach in Gozo, with an ‘Awareness Raising Day.’ This was the last of four events involving educational boat trips around the coast, games, clean-ups and other awareness raising activities. There was the Sharklab shark exhibition, information on Gaia’s work with endemic and [...]
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ERRC lifeguards rescue two swimmers in Ramla Bay, Gozo
As well as yesterdays tragic double drowning in rough seas at Xwejni, there was also an incident where lifeguards of the Emergency Response and Rescue Corps of Gozo had to rescue two swimmers at Ramla Bay on Saturday afternoon. The two swimmers were a fifty-year-old British man and a Maltese man in his thirties. The […]
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Riflessi Sajfin 2013 – 3-hour festival of fun & entertainment
The OASI Foundation’s Primary Prevention Team held the 22nd edition of the annual open-air festival Riflessi Sajfin last Saturday, at the Menqa in Marsalforn, Gozo. The three hour festival, which was presented by Joseph Refalo and Kelly Cassar, was a huge success, with a variety of artists performing on stage and with hundreds of Maltese, […]
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New species of jellyfish spotted by swimmers at Ramla Bay
A 20-cm-diameter individual of the compass jellyfish – Chrysaora hyocella, was collected on Wednesday swimmers at Ramla l-Hamra in Gozo, who duly contacted the Spot the Jellyfish (www.ioikids.net/jellyfish) team. Dr. Alan Deidun, coordinator of the Spot the Jellyfish campaign, said that this is the first time that this species, which is closely related to the […]
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Swimmer suffers from lacerations to her feet at Blue Lagoon
At around 2pm this afternoon, a 24-year-old Maltese female swimmer was injured when she was hit by a boat propeller, resulting in lacerations to her feet She was assisted by the Emergency Response and Rescue Corps Lifeguards onsite and taken with hydro ambulance, Lifesaver 1 to Mgarr Harbour, from where she was transferred to the […]
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Nadur Youth Council visit Ramla with youth exchange group
The Nadur Youth Council are hosting an exchange group of young people from Romania, Hungary, Poland and Turkey. The group, who are visiting on the ‘Green Beyond Borders,’ project, have been involved in many activities over the past week and yesterday they visited Ramla l-Hamra, where they were hosted by the Gaia Foundation. The group […]
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CHARITY fund raising event for all the family at Ramla fields
‘CHARITY’ is a special event orgnised by a team of Gozitan volunteers, who have joined forces to bring together an eventful fund raising, in which they say, “the whole family will be able to have fun!” Different entities and NGOs as well as sponsors have contributed to this event. Many people have given their time […]
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Work at San Blas is to clear beach of algae- Gozo Ministry
Cleaning Of Bay Of San Blas Update: The Ministry for Gozo said in a statement this afternoon that it wishes to make it clear that the works being carried out on the beach in San Blas Bay, Gozo, is to clear the large amount of algae from the sand which came ashore in a recent […]
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‘Charity’ fund raising evening held in Ramla fields, Gozo
A team of Gozitan volunteers have, over the past few weeks been organising a special fund raising event – ‘Charity,’ to raise money for projects undertaken by the Official Voluntary Office Malta, Jesus is Thy Neighbour Movement and Father Joe Camilleri for projects in Guatemala. On Friday from late afternoon onwards, people started to arrive […]
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BLM gives praise for response to unusual flamingo migration
BirdLife Malta today thanked members of public and the Malta Police Force for their response to the unusually high number of young Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) that have been seen around the islands over the past week. BLM said that since the first sighting of a flock of more than 40 flamingos, including adults and […]
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ERRC delegation pays a courtesy visit to the Prime Minister
The Prime Minister Dr Joseph Muscat recently received a delegation of the Emergency Response and Rescue Corps. The ERRC delegation was made up of Dr Raymond Xerri the ERRC President, Mr Mario Saliba, who is the ERRC Vice President, Mr Chalie Christ Abela and Mr Eric Grech, Committee Members and Mr Charlie Micallef, Volunteers Coordinator. […]
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Life buoys and information boards installed around Gozo
The Ministry for Gozo has announced that newly installed, ring buoys and information boards, which includes the 112 emergency number and information about action to be taken. The areas in Gozo where these signs are installed are: • Marsalforn (near Police Station); • Marsalforn (breakwater); • Marsalforn (Ghar Qawqla); • Qbajjar; • Xwejni; • 2 […]
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Over 350 tonnes of rubble illegally dumped in Gozo valleys
MEPA’s Enforcement Directorate said that it has promptly intervened to ensure that over 350 tons of illegally dumped material in two of Gozo’s pristine valleys is removed by the respective contravenors. Earlier this year, following a tip off, MEPA officers had caught, red-handed, two persons who had illegally started dumping truck loads of construction material […]
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Gozo ranked 6th in TripAdvisor ‘Top Ten Islands in Europe’
Gozo has been ranked 6th in the ‘TripAdvisor Traveller’s Choice 2013 Top Ten Islands in Europe.’ TripAdvisor spokeswoman,...
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Gozo Minister welcomes 6th place in European islands
The Minister for Gozo, Dr. Anton Refalo said that he welcomes the news announced by the international company...
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Gozo SPCA appeals for help to find owner of this lost dog
Gozo SPCA are appealing for help in tracing the owner of this dog which has been in the...
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More than 330 offences against the Sunday hunting curfew
CABS said in a statement this afternoon that in the course of the first three days of their...
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