Corporate Dispatch Morning Briefing and Newspaper Review

Good morning

These are the Headlines from Malta’s newspapers frontpages.

The Times reports on the dangerous structural state at Mount Carmel. Three-quarters of the roofs are condemned while the foundations of one of the wards has also given away, forming wide cracks in the walls.

The Malta Independent reveals that Transport Malta conducted around 30 inspections on the roadworks on Triq Buqana where an accident last week killed two people and injured others. The paper says that the area lacks proper signage and lighting.  

The Times says that a fourth of visitors in Malta in 2018 booked their stays with peer-to-peer services such as Airbnb. According to a Eurostat report, this was the second-highest rate of online direct arrangements in the EU, following Luxembourg at 44 percent.

L-Orizzont reports that the aviation industry in Malta now employs some 3,200 people and condtributes to 2.5 percent of GDP. Transport Minister Ian Borg said that the government is setting new targets to attract more investment in the industry.

In-Nazzjon says that there are just under 100,000 foreign nationals living in Malta, a fifth of the population. The paper says the numbers show in the latest publication of the electoral roll and do not account for minors.

L-Orizzont announces the signing of a collective agreement for Heritage Malta employees, negotiated by the General Workers Union. Section head Kendrick Bondin said the agreement is good both to employees and to the tourism sector.

In other news:

Thousands gathered around the Colosseum to participate in the Way of the Cross with Pope Francis. As usual the cross was carried around this historic monument. This year the readings reflected on the horrors of human trafficking; especially of girls and women, during the 14 stations of the cross.

Peruvian ex-president Alan Garcia wrote in an alleged suicide note read by family members at a wake on Friday that he had killed himself in order to avoid humiliation at the hands of his political enemies.

Italy and France are working to stop the conflict in Libya, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said after meeting his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Rome on Friday.

Italy’s coalition government seems to be veering closer to collapse after the far-right League and anti-establishment Five Star Movement allies traded allegations of corruption.