What the Sunday papers say…
A round-up of the newspaper headlines on Sunday morning.
MaltaToday says Prime Minister Joseph Muscat met the Swedish prime minister so Swedish company Skanska would cover the €30 million bill for the repair works that are needed to bring Mater Dei’s concrete structure up to par. In another story, the newspaper reveals that the Lands Department dished out €400,000 compensation for a property valued at €60,000.
Sunday newspaper Illum reports on how the EU’s bailout talks with Greece have failed and that it is very likely for Greece to leave the Eurozone. The newspaper also reveals a net of precarious employment of foreign workers in Malta, with some Bulgarian workers employed at a particular hotel in Malta earning a miserly hourly wage of just €3.80.
The Sunday Times of Malta says Daniel Zammit – the 35-year-old former police inspector and son of former police commissioner Ray Zammit – was boarded out and certified unfit for policies on psychiatric grounds before he landed a €60,000 consultancy job with Enemalta.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says former police inspector Daniel Zammit went into a business with an online gaming operator two weeks after leaving the police force, while in another story, the newspaper says that parliamentary secretary Michael Falzon was not eligible for a BOV retirement scheme.
It-Torca says the leak of sensitive data from public officials in high positions to the PN’s former shadow finance minister Tonio Fenech was passed on to certain parts of the media.
Nationalist news organ il-mument reports the PN’s call for an independent inquiry into the links between the Gaffarena family and an inspector involved in a murder investigation.
Kullhadd says the Institute of Tourism Studies is being given a new vision to become an educational hub in the Mediterranean.