The Times leads with urgent preventive measures taken to save some 60 pieces exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art from a ‘very serious’ outbreak of mould. The museum housed in the Auberge d’Italie was inaugurated in December.
The Malta Independent carries an interview with one of the residents who were evacuated from their homes in Bisazza Street, Sliema, on Sunday night after fires broke out in an apartment block. The resident said that the gases she was inhaling felt poisonous.
The Times speaks to Malcolm Borg, director at the Mcast Centre for Agriculture, who says that local farmers produced smaller yields this summer following a rainy and windy spring season that caused trees to lose their blossom flowers.
The Malta Independent quotes the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2019 survey which shows that almost 36,000 people in Malta say they cannot afford heating while less than 10,000 cannot afford a car.
L-Orizzont says that the government is studying a proposal by the General Workers Union to introduce compulsory membership in workers’ unions. The paper says that there are various models on how this could be implemented.
In-Nazzjon reports that Gżira residents’ group ‘Inħobbu l-Gżira’ collected over 8,000 signatures in a petition calling to turn Manoel Island into a national park. The group says that the planned development project does not improve the resident’s quality of life.
L-Orizzont follows the situation aboard the Open Arms rescue ship and says that conditions have severely deteriorated after 18 days stranded at sea. In another story, the paper says that a fisherman reported a capsized boat off Libya with around a hundred corpses in the water.
In-Nazzjon says that DNA tests confirmed that the identity of the human remains uncovered close to the Salinos football ground in Valletta last month was Charlene Farrugia, who disappeared 11 years ago. Her partner John Paul Woods will stand accused of the murder.
