In the Press: Arriva busses to be scrapped, not shipped overseas | Labour officials told to focus on migration

MaltaToday

Labour officials, including those dealing with the party's communications and One TV hosts, were yesterday instructed to focus on migration issues during a strategy meeting at Castille. Reacting to poll data, which suggests that migration is the issue of most concern to the electorate, the party has told its officials to emphasise the issue in an effort to sway Labour voters who will not be voting in the MEP elections.

The Times of Malta

Various companies expressed frustration at the way the Transport Malta deal that aims to remove Arriva's 81 bendy busses has been carried out. The initial expression of interest gave the tender winner  four weeks to remove the vehicles from the islands. Now however it turns out that the Trihills Heavy Industry company charged with the job may be selling them off for scrap instead.

In-Nazzjon

The Opposition presented a motion yesterday that would reduce waiting times for surgical intervention by allowing patients to use private hospitals or hospitals abroad at the government's expense. Opposition leader Simon Busuttil yesterday spoke about this motion at a political event in Birkirkara and also spoke about the discrimination that was coming to light in the POYC scheme, saying that if such discrimination were to continue, the government would be faced with strong opposition from the PN.

L-Orizzont

The government has a plan to eradicate precarious work, according to the PM. Muscat said yesterday that about 2,700 employees worked within private entities that offered services to the government and that the threat of precarious work only recently began to be considered real.

The Malta Independent

In response to an article The Independent ran recently, about the large Maltese delegation that travelled to Copenhagen for the Eurovision, PBS sent a letter to the newspaper clarifying some points and remaining vague on others. It said that government funding for PBS stopped years ago, therefore refuting the idea that taxpayer money paid for the 18-person delegation. PBS did however fail to establish who made up such a large contingent and what their roles were.