In the Press: Shuttered Marsa bar is residence address for 26 foreigners

MaltaToday reveals how a shuttered Marsa bar is the residence address for 26 foreign nationals without any checks by national identity authorities, while on the backpage, the newspaper features a rare total lunar eclipse that will occur on Sunday night.

In another story, the newspaper reports that the European Commission has not yet decided whether it should ask the EU courts to apply the interim measures that would see finch trapping suspended in Malta.

Sunday newspaper Illum says a total of 120 police officials left the police force in ten months, while in an interview with the newspaper, the president of the police officers’ union, Inspector Sandro Camilleri, says the police force is experiencing a mass exodus.

The newspaper also reports that Maltese passengers who will use the Gozo channel during the winter will pay the same price as their Gozitan counterparts, while on the front page the newspaper quotes the Secretary General of the UHM Josef Vella in saying that there was political interference to influence the trade union recognition at the Freeport.

The Sunday Times of Malta says a Libyan man who was stabbed in Paceville two weeks ago was targeted because of his previous connection with Libya’s slain leader Muammar Gaddafi. In another story, the newspaper carries an interview with Opposition leader Simon Busuttil, who says he ‘cannot be bought.’

The Malta Independent on Sunday quotes cardiologist and Nationalist MP Albert Fenech saying politicians screw things up by meddling in the health sector, but concedes that his forced retirement from Mater Dei Hospital has nothing to do with political discrimination.

GWU-owned newspaper It-Torca says two Identity Malta officials under investigation over the racket in the issuance of residence permits have Nationalist affiliations. In another story, the newspaper quotes GWU Secretary General Tony Zarb saying that the strike conducted by bus drivers had bore fruit.

Nationalist news organ il-mument says drugs are being traded at Corradino Correctional Facility. The newspaper also says that the extent of drug trafficking in the prison has reached alarming levels.

Labour newspaper Kullhadd says a large tract of land in an outside development zone in Bidnija has been cut off by a large wall and is connected to a property owned by blogger and Malta Independent columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia.