These are the main news reported by the leading Maltese news portals.
Education Minister Owen Bonnici has no apologies for breaching activists’ human rights over the daily order to clear the impromptu memorial to slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia opposite the law courts. Source: Times of Malta
The number of motor vehicles on Malta’s roads reached 397,508 by the end of 2019, a increase of over 12,000 compared to the previous year. In December 2018, there were 385,326 licensed vehicles, but this rose by 3.2% by December last year, figures published by the Nationalist Statistics Office on Friday show. Source: Malta Today
Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg together with CEO of Infrastructure Malta, Fredrick Azzopardi and other officials from the agency, visited a new grove that connects Valley Road, Msida to Regional Road in the same locality. Source: The Malta Independent
Despite the island’s limited size, which is a mere 316 square km, vehicles on Malta’s roads cover over 3,000 million km of trips annually. This emerges from statistics about transport issued by the National Statistics Office. Source: TVM
Identity Malta said that UK nationals and their family members residing in Malta will continue to do so on the conditions provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement and national legislation.In a statement issued as the UK lowers the EU flag, Identity Malta said that the Maltese Government has published a legal notice which regulates UK nationals’ residency status following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Source: Newsbook
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