In the Press: Joe Cassar resigns from shadow cabinet

The Times of Malta

Nationalist MP Joe Cassar has resigned from his position on the shadow cabinet after it emerged that businessman Joe Gaffarena had paid some €8,000 for construction works on Cassar's family home in 2011. 

In-Nazzjon

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil said that recent events would not stop the Opposition from exposing Labour party scandals as they arise. Busuttil was giving a radio interview during which he said PM Joseph Muscat was attempting to divert the public's attention.

L-Orizzont

The General Workers Union has denied knowledge of a valuation of the Workers' Memorial Building in Valletta, after an article in the Times of Malta last week suggested that the building was worth €3.2 million. 

The Malta Independent

Italian expatriates in Libya report that the Italian Catholic cemetery in Tripoli has been ransacked in the latest in a series of vandal attacks stretching back to WWII. The Libyan Tobruk government claimed recently that three Italian warships had infringed upon its territorial waters.