Your evening news from Malta roundup, as reported by Malta’s news portals.
The Drug Squad Police arrested 7 persons in Gzira and Valletta. Five men and a woman, aged between 28 and 47 years old, were arrested in an apartment in Gzira. They were found in the possession of what is suspected to be the drugs heroin, cocaine and crack which were ready for trafficking. Further investigation resulted in the arrest of a 23 year old man who resides in Saint Paul’s Bay. He had in his possession what is suspected to be cocaine. Police investigation is still ongoing.
If Brexit goes ahead, Malta will be losing an ally with which the country sees eye to eye with on many issues, Joseph Muscat said. In a short telephone interview on One Radio, the Prime Minister – who is in Brussels for a European Union summit where Theresa May and other European leaders are agreeing on the Brexit withdrawal agreement and political declaration – said today’s meeting was more of a formality. Malta Today
Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat has stated that the European Commission not only gave economic certification for the budget presented by Government, but also recognised several social meaasures which are proposed for implementation next year. TVM
Opposition leader Adrian Delia on Sunday insisted that Joseph Muscat “is lying” about the 17 Black affair and he knows that members of his administration are under criminal investigation. Yet he is doing nothing about it. Times of MaltaThe party is concentrating on listening to people, Dr Delia began, for it considers each person not as a collection of eight cells as Minister Chris Fearne famously described it, but as an individual with rights and duties. While wages grew by only 1.5%, people like Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri grew richer and richer from the very first moment of the PL administration. The Malta Independent
Archbishop Charles Scicluna led the diocesan celebration that will mark the liturgical feast of Christ the King. The celebration started off with a walk from in front of the monument dedicated to Christ the King in Floriana and came to an end at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta with evening prayers. Newsbook
Former Prime Minister Alfred Sant on Sunday evening indicated he may seek re-election to the European Parliament, saying it was difficult to ignore an appeal made earlier in the morning by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. On Sunday morning Dr Muscat joined a One Radio programme in which Dr Sant was taking part and urged him to stay on. Times of Malta
