Good evening,
In our evening roundup we bring you the main news as reported by Malta’s main portals.
Hugo Chetcuti died of a bloodstream infection, after being stabbed repeatedly in the stomach, the PA chairman assumed responsibility of the decision to use private jet for one of its members to vote on the controversial db project.
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Entrepreneur Hugo Chetcuti died of a bloodstream infection after being stabbed repeatedly in the the stomach in one of his Paceville establishments. This was confirmed by autopsy experts, who stated that Chetcuti developed complications following an operation to save his life. It appears Chetcuti developed bowel perforations after the operation, as a result of the knife stabbings, and the perforations consequently led to the bloodstream infection. TVM
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Matthew Pace, one of 10 Planning Board members to vote in favour of the DB Group project at St George’s Bay, is a franchise owner of Remax Alliance Group – the agency that was selling the project’s apartments at a time when there was no planning permit and the land still belonged to the public. The Shift News
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The Opposition Leader, Adrian Delia, has called for an inquiry to establish what led the PA to fly over one of its board members by a private jet to vote on Thursday. The Malta Independent
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Meanwhile, planning Authority executive chairman Johann Buttigieg has assumed responsibility for a decision to fork out thousands of euros to fly a PA board member to and from Malta by private jet. In a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, the PA said that it had spent €8,750 on flying PA board member Jacqueline Gili from Sicily and back. This was (see receipt attached below) “within the limit that can be authorised by the executive chairperson” and that therefore “no further endorsements were required by government,” it said. Times of Malta
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A 60-year-old man has been cleared of charges that he corrupted and took part in sexual activities with a girl who was under age at the time. This was after the Court of Appeal said that the case was time-barred and changed the sentence handed down to the man in January by the Magistrates Court which had found him guilty and sentenced him to two years in prison. TVM
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The Justice Minister, Owen Bonnici said that activist Manuel Delia has withdrawn court action he instituted on Monday (Independent). Earlier Veteran lawyer and former politician Joseph Brincat has weighed in on the issue of the removal of a memorial to murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. This morning, Brincat filed an application in the acts of that same Constitutional case asking to be admitted as a party to it and arguing that “Emanuel Delia cannot expect that his right is greater than that of the undersigned and many other Maltese, as had been established through official declarations under a multitude of administrations about the Great Siege monument.” The Malta Independent / One
