Press Review • 3 March

The Times of Malta

Running a bus service “difficult, if not impossible” – British transport firm

The National Express Group, a transport service provider servicing Britain, the US, Germany, Spain and Morocco, had sent a letter to Transport minister Joe Mizzi, saying that a private organization would find it  “difficult, if not impossible” to run a service in Malta at the price the government was proposing. The letter was sent days before Scottish bus operator McGill’s withdrew its interest in the proposal, citing a “lack of openness” from the government as the main reason for its decision.

In-Nazzjon

Prime Minister continues to be dishonest – PN

PN leader Simon Busuttil yesterday said that the Prime Minister continues to deceive the people by saying one thing and doing another. He listed the impeachment of judge Lino Farrugia Sacco, the LNG storage tanker in Marsaxlokk and the bribery cases plaguing Enemalta as examples, adding that the latest was the government’s interference in police work, as declared under oath by a police inspector during a bribery case.

L-Orizzont

€1 million go to foreign companies under PN

Minister for the Economy Chris Cardona yesterday announced that an investigation will begin over the coming weeks, looking into the roughly €1 million that were given to foreign companies under the previous government. Cardona said that the government had no right to give the money to anyone and that the decision was taken by the previous Cabinet.

The Malta Independent

Coleiro Preca vehemently opposed to social workers’ transfer plan

Days before her expected nomination as President of the Republic, Family and Social Solidarity minister Marie Louise Coleiro Preca strongly opposed a plan to transfer the responsibility for social workers from her ministry to the ministry of health. The housing sector was also a source of disagreement between Coleiro Preca and the government.