What the Sunday papers say…

MaltaToday

The acting Police Commissioner had approved the government’s original statement- claiming that Paul Sheehan had fired two warning shots in the air- while Manuel Mallia was present at the police headquarters.

The Maltese archdiocese has asked heads of Catholic schools to agree to new terms of employment that will ensure that their schools’ head teachers and other top staff are “practicing Catholics”.

Illum

The Prime Minister has resigned himself to removing home affairs minister Manuel Mallia and acting commissioner Ray Zammit. With Mallia’s departure, his chief of staff will inevitably be forced to leave as well.

The Sunday Times of Malta

Simon Busuttil has demanded that Joseph Muscat publish his mobile phone call logs from the night of the Sheehan shooting incident to prove that he wasn’t involved in an alleged cover-up. Muscat repeated that he will wait for the results of an inquiry board before taking action.

The Malta Independent on Sunday

A clerical error on the St Luke’s helipad incident report led the newspaper to assume that someone had deregistered the offending vehicle’s license plates to cover up the incident. The newspaper has admitted that its allegations of a cover-up were unfounded.

It-Torca

A solution has been found for the problem of inadequate space between the desks and deputy chairs in the new Parliament’s chamber. Italian company Unifor will take the desks back to Italy for necessary adjustments.  

Il-Mument

The Sheehan shooting incident has embarrassed the Prime Minister who is now starting to feel the weight of a confusion that he could never have predicted that he’d have got himself into.

Kullhadd

The government has spent over  1 million on maintenance works on social housing since it was elected in March 2013.