What the Sunday papers say…

MaltaToday reveals that Barts medical school will be making an unspecified contribution to the government coffers, according to an agreement between the two sides to host a medical school. But it will be state which will remunerate specialists who take up clinical tutor posts with Barts. In another story, the newspaper reports how an anonymous complaint sent to the Speaker, the PM and the Opposition leader, has alleged that planning ombudsman David Pace has breached the terms of his office by accepting income from his profession as architect.  

Sunday newspaper Illum reports that Peter Portelli, the former permanent secretary of Mario de Marco, is the chief executive officer of Strickland foundation while also having a full-time job with the government, earning more than €40,000.  The newspaper also reports that 40% of people interviewed in a survey saw an improvement in the bus service. It also carries an interview with Economy minister Chris Cardona, the Labour Party’s deputy leadership hopeful, who says that the government has not lost its social soul.

The Sunday Times of Malta reports that the Seabank Group Is selling high-end residential apartments in two towers earmarked on the former ITS site in St George’s Bay on land still owned by the public and where planning laws does not permit residential development. It also reports that newly-appointed competitiveness minister Manuel Mallia was offered the job at the European Court of Auditors before former Labour deputy leader Toni Abela was nominated but her turned it down.

The Malta Independent on Sunday reports that Keith Schembri, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, had injected $750,000 to a BVI company in the same year that his Maltese holding company declared losses of over $400,000.

It-Torca reports that an expert is to start an evaluation process in an effort to stop the erosion of the Azure Window in Dwejra, Gozo.

PN news organ il-mument says Henley and Partners, the concessionaries of Malta’s Individual Investor Programme, have a secret company with a Malta link. The company in question, Henley Estates International Limited, was set up in the British Virgin Islands on 6 March 2013, three days before the general election.

Labour newspaper Kullhadd says Nationalist MP Toni Abela in his declaration of assets did not declare his stake in a company with a partner who was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of drug trafficking.