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The two main stories covered by news houses in Malta this evening are: the launch of the whitepaper on rent reform and a meeting of NGO’s with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
Find the salient news from Malta, as reported by Malta’s leading news portals.
- Government has launched a white paper for the rental market, the main aim being the regularisation of the rental market to ensure greater stability, transparency and security by, among other issues, obliging registration of rental contracts. Proposed measures apply for residential rentals only, and do not apply for pre-1995 rentals. TVM. One News quotes Parliamentary Secretary Roderick Galdes who said that the goal of the newly-launched rent reform whitepaper is to bring stability in the residential leasing sector. A main proposal of the document is to set minimum rental periods. Newsbook reports that, if enacted law, the paper will prohibit landlords from evicting tenants without a three-month notice. Net News ‘s angle on the story is about the proposed reform has no specific action to target or tackle the issue of accessible housing.
- The Malta Independent says that the Prime Minister told the delegation that the government does not exclude opening a new inquiry into the murder once the ongoing magisterial inquiry is concluded. The representatives disagreed with the timing and insisted for an investigation to be opened immediately, according to The Shift News.
- Times of Malta says that the MFSA appointed Auditors EY to ‘advise and monitor’ Satabank following an inspection of the bank’s anti-money laundering procedures. Satabank was fine over €60,000 in July for breaches of risk management laws.
- There has been no let-up in the police investigation of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, Police Commissioner Lawrence Cutajar is insisting. “We are still intensively investigating the case and Europol are still involved,” Cutajar told MaltaToday when asked whether any progress had been made to find the people responsible for commissioning the crime. MaltaToday
- The first collective agreement for the Police Force has been signed on Monday at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the presence of Minister for Internal Affairs Michael Farrugia and Principal Permanent Secretary Mario Cutajar. The collective agreement has been approved by the two unions that represent the members of the Police Corps. Amongst others members of the Police will be working 40 hours a week instead of 46 and will also be able to work overtime by offering security services in particular locations. Newsbook/One
- LovinMalta reports that the family of Hugo Chetcuti is offering a monetary reward to anyone who comes forward with information about the stabbing of the late entrepreneur in July.
- A TVM story covers a court ruling which ordered the Fgura Local Council to pay a 47-year-old woman €42,700 for injuries she sustained from falling on a pavement in bad state.
