In the Press: Committe on health to propose decriminalisation of sex between minors

The Times of Malta

Labour MP Etienne Grech, as chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on health, is to propose the decriminalization of sexual activity between minors from 13 to 15 years of age. While engaging in sex acts under the age of consent, currently 18, would remain illegal, participants would not be charged with a criminal act.

In-Nazzjon

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said that he wanted to lead a government that would clean up politics, one that would not see public funds used to make individuals wealthy and that would safeguard the common good and the environment.

L-Orizzont

A PN delegation is due to visit China next month, despite his past assertions that the country, with its spotty democratic and human rights record, "scared him".

The Malta Independent

Local construction magnate Charles Polidano has denied that his company supplied the concrete for the new Delimara power station. Tests showed that six of the 40 piles of the material laid so far were of inferior quality than was contracted by Siemens, the company responsible for the construction project.