Your morning briefing with today’s newspapers front page review.
The Malta Independent speaks to experts who project a continued rate of steady growth in 2019. At the same time, they warn that the banking sector and the skills-gap are challenges that need to be dealt with in the immediate term.
The Times says that the owners of a restaurant in Golden Bay were forced to shut down their social media pages and disconnected their phones after a series of threats stemming from the case of a killed cat in the area in summer. It was first claimed that a relative of the owners was involved in the killing, but it later turned out to be a wrong accusation.
The Malta Independent quotes PN Leader Adrian Delia who warned that he is prepared to act against anyone trying to exploit his separation process from Nickie Vella de Fremaux for political points. In a radio interview on Net FM Delia said that the legal proceedings are personal matters that should remain private.
The Times also reports on the comments by the Opposition Leader who said that he will ‘fight on’ not only for himself, but for the benefit of the Nationalist Party and the country.
In-Nazzjon says that the PN will insist on the best use of land in the deal with the Corinthia Group sought by the government. Quoting party leader Adrian Delia, the paper says that, if government goes ahead with selling the land, the Opposition will make sure the public gets the best value out of it.
L-Orizzont publishes an interview with the permanent secretary in the Ministry for Social Solidarity Mark Musu, who said he agrees with the General Workers Union’s proposal for every worker to join a union. Musu said that forming part of a union improves quality of life.
In-Nazzjon reports that 69 immigrants disembarked in Marsa on Sunday evening after an operation by the Armed Forces some 180 nautical miles southwest of the island.
In another story, L-Orizzont revisits a 2015 catastrophe at sea which, at the time, was said to have claimed the lives of 800 people crossing the Mediterranean. The paper says that numbers today are thought to have been closer to 1,000 making it the ‘largest tragedy’ in the Mediterranean.
