In the Press: UHM threatens action | 'Enemalta will turn a profit' - Muscat
Stories from today's national press
The Times of Malta
Criminal lawyer Joe Giglio has accused the government of passing laws that give the prosecution an advantage. As defence cousel in the case of the murder of Mario Camilleri and his son, Giglio said that the recently changed law ensures that the prosecution gets its testimony and increases its chances of securing a conviction by entering witnesses into a protection program in return for testimony.
In-Nazzjon
This newspaper reveals that a member of the family that the PM visited in Isla was in fact a police officer and driver of Assistant Police Commissioner Carmelo Magri. This is in breach of the police corps' code of ethics that states that no officer of the law can partake in political activities.
L-Orizzont
In an interview yesterday, PM Joseph Muscat said that he is confident that Enemalta will begin to turn a profit. Muscat said that the government had turned what was once a failed corporation into a powerhouse of the economy. Muscat was speaking at an event in Zejtun as part of the MEP election campaign.
The Malta Independent
The UHM is prepared to issue directives to its members if the government does not honour parts of an agreement, reached a month before the last election, that concerns the promotion of employees with academic qualifications. The union is to meet with minister Konrad Mizzi today to discuss the matter, which affects some 800 allied health professionals. The UHM has threatened industrial action next week if a solution is not found.