These are the main news as reported by Malta’s News Portals.
There does not appear to be any foreign, third-party or outside infiltration into data and information which was not intended to be made available to the public, the Lands Authority said on Saturday, even if images found online as a result of a security flaw suggest otherwise. The Times reports that “the data that was accessible through Google search is the same limited data that an applicant would have provided to the Lands Authority through the online application system, it said in a statement on Saturday.”
An appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man recently named in connection to the Daphne Caruana Galizia’s alleged killers, on charges of failing to obey police summons about an alleged threat to plant a bomb under a woman’s car. MaltaTodayreports that fishing boat operator Pierre Darmanin had been charged with harassment, threatening his former partner Rachel Tua, and with the misuse of telecommunications equipment. He had been found not guilty at first instance of all charges bar that of failing to obey a police summons and relapsing, which he appealed.
A German credit rating agency has classified Malta in A+ rating level with stable prospects after its economists carried out an evaluation of Malta’s economic and financial indicators. TVMreports that the agency, Creditreform, considered in the A+ level rating to Malta the strong economic growth which increased the average income and the low rate of unemployment. The economists stated that this scenery is expected to continue even next year and noted that the Government is registering the highest surplus in the budget among European countries with a trend of debt reduction.
One Newsreports that the Maltese national airline is expected to have two new aircrafts, of the Airbus make. This fact and the set up of a Pilots Academy were amongst the subjects dealt with in a meeting Minister Konrad Mizzi had with Airbus officials in Toulouse.
Net Newsreports PN General Council’s President, Kristy Debono saying that a long-term economic vision, the fight against corruption and creation of wealth will be the pillars on which the Nationalist party’s political direction will be built on.
The Malta Independent reports that numerous parents have taken to social media to complain about the School Fruit Scheme, which, instead of promoting healthy fruit and vegetable consumption, they say is doing the exact opposite.
In his pastoral letter for the Marian year, Gozo Bishop Mario Grech talks about how during his visit to Peru he met an 84-year-old woman that lived in a shabby shed. Newsbookreports the Bishop saying that this woman left him astonished when she told him that Jesus Christ is her hope. In the pastoral letter, Mons. Grech explained how during his visits to Peru he felt the stench of social misery whilst also experienced a community full of faith. He also explained how all the community participated in the plain yet joyous liturgy.
