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Our end of day news roundup with the main stories from Malta’s news portals.
The corpse of a woman has been found in a residence in St Paul’s Bay by the police. Sources quoted by the Times said that the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition but that the woman was a 69-year-old Briton living in Malta. Her husband is being interrogated and a magisterial inquiry is underway. Reports indicate that allegedly the British man kept his dead wife’s body at their St Paul’s Bay apartment for three months after her death.
The financial services authority announced that service providers Terabanq and BlackStreamMarkets are not operating from Malta, as they claim. One News says that the two companies are not licensed to operate and warned people of risks associated with non-licensed providers.
Projections by international research firm Kantar predict that the Labour Party will win the upcoming European Parliament elections with 62 percent of the votes, electing four MEPs. TVM says the survey, commissioned by the European Commission, says that the Nationalist Party will elect the other two MEPs with 36 percent of the vote.
A UK parliament committee draws links going back to before 2013 between the Labour Party in Malta, Henley & Partners, and the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, SCL. The Shift News quotes the official report which says that H&P’s Christian Kalin was introduced to then Opposition Leader Joseph Muscat by SCL
The catholic church must become a place of safety, said Archbishop Charles Scicluna at an international press conference before a Vatican summit discussing sexual abuse in the church. Newsbook quotes Mons. Scicluna who said that the summit shows the openness and commitment of the church to address abuse.
The Lands Authority was slapped with a €5,000 fine after an investigation found that its website was not sufficiently protected against breach of data. MaltaToday says that data submitted by applicants online was not securely stored, with personal information surfacing in simple search engine results.
A series of environmental surveys are currently assessing some 100 kilometres of valleys around Malta, before a masterplan for their conservation is drafted. The Malta Independent says that the studies are commission by Ambjent Malta as part of a collaboration with the Energy & Water Agency.
10,000 people in Malta will suffer from Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease by 2030, according to a University of Malta research. Net News says the Opposition called on government to respond to the rising problem by offering care of the highest standard.
Partit Demokratiku said that there is still enough time to appoint the next President of the Republic with a two-thirds parliamentary vote. The Times says PD Leader Godfrey Farrugia is confident House Representatives can work together to agree on a ‘unifying’ appointment to the presidency.
Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi has urged Sardinia to follow the example of Malta to bolster its tourism industry. LovinMalta says that the former prime Minister, who has a home in the Italian island, was speaking ahead of regional elections next week.
