Malta News – Evening Roundup

Good evening

These are the main news featuring on Malta’s news portals.

MaltaToday reports that the new electronic vote-counting system installed at the counting hall in Naxxar marked a substantial number of documents as ‘dubious’ arising concerns about delegates of the political parties. The portal said most of the documents would have been marked as valid by manual sorters.

The Times reports from figures published in the European Commission State of Health Report that the gap between rich and poor is reflected in wellbeing, with 86 percent of high-income earners registering good health conditions compared to 55 percent of those in the low-income earners.

One News covers the funeral of former Labour MP and Health Minister Vincent Moran who passed away on Tuesday aged 86. The Funeral in Paola was attended by President Marie Louise Colerio Preca, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, and House Speaker Angelo Farrugia.

Net News report alarm in Għaxaq after an explosion was heard this afternoon. Police Officials and Members of the Civil Protection Department who arrived on site confirmed that a firework had gone off and that no one was injured.

TVM feature the police dog Sparky, who assisted in a customs operation to uncover 10 kilograms of cannabis hidden in a car aboard the ferry from Sicily to Malta. The Anti-Drug squad found the substance in false compartments in the car driven by a Sicilian man.

LovinMalta cover a statement by Partit Demokratiku on a selfie featuring Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Opposition Leader Adrian Delia. The two were at the National Stadium for a Malta’s game against the Faroe Islands. Partit Demokratiku says the picture shows that the two major parties are not much different from each other.

Newsbook picks up a tweet by PN MP Simon Busuttil who said the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Keith Schembri did not turn up to a court hearing of a libel case he filed against the former Opposition Leader.

The Malta Independent carries a story about a court case involving a man accused of raping his partner and threatening his daughter aged 11. The 51-year-old Egyptian was released on bail after a month of preventive custody.

The Shift News published a reaction to the ruling by House Speaker Angelo Farrugia asking the news portal to change a story after a complaint by PL MP Glenn Beddingfield. The news site says the Speaker failed to provide a fair hearing and allowing it to ‘assert its position’ about the original story. The SHif News has not changed the article despite the ruling.