What the Sunday Papers say …

MaltaToday says Opposition MP Francis Zammit Dimech is among eight people facing charges of involuntary homicide of a Latvian man who died in a roof collapse at the Seabank Hotel while Zammit Dimech was a non-executive director of the hotel.

In another story, the newspaper reports how Italy’s coastguard coordinated a rescue of up to 3,000 migrants from the sea after receiving SOS calls from 18 different crowded vessels. On the backpage, the newspaper reports that credit rating agency Fitch affirmed Malta’s ‘A’.

Sunday newspaper Illum says national airline Air Malta registered a €16 million loss during the last financial year. In an interview with the airline’s Chief Commercial Officer Joseph Galea, the newspaper reports that Air Malta would not be making any profit in 2016, and will, once again, aim for a break even.

In another story, the newspaper features an analysis of Simon Busuttil’s first two years as Opposition leader and asks whether the PN leader is ready to be Malta’s next prime minister or just a pedestrian in Malta’s political history. The newspaper also reveals that the public selected the Cospicua site chosen to house the American University of Malta.

The Sunday Times of Malta says two monuments of former prime ministers George Borg Olivier and Dom Mintoff meant to be set up in Castille Square have been scrapped by the Office of the Prime Minister.

The Malta Independent on Sunday says Joe Sammut and former Maltese consul Marisa Farrugia ran a Libya visa scheme together.

GWU newspaper It-Torca scrutinises the financial declarations of PN deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami and states that in 22 years, Fenech Adami and his wife managed to earn between €3.4 million and €6.8 million.

Nationalist news organ il-mument says a Maltese government delegation is set to visit North Korea on the occasion of the country’s 67th anniversary since becoming a Communist country. In another story, the newspaper reports that two people are suspected to have murdered an elderly Danish tourist in Gozo.

Kullhadd lists state guarantees given by the former Nationalist governments, and in another story reports that a child can be kept in prison if his mother is serving a custodial sentence.