What the Sunday papers say…
A round-up of the newspaper headlines on Sunday morning.
27 December 2015, 12:55pm
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
2 min read
MaltaToday takes a look at 2015, describing it as a year of the green awakening after Malta saw the largest environmental demonstration protest the use of ODZ land for the American University of Malta and 2,000 votes short of abrogating a law through a referendum seeking the abolition of the spring hunting derogation.
The newspaper also reports how 2015 will be remembered for the resignations of three key politicians; former Gozo minister Giovanna Debono, candid MP Marlene Farrugia, former health minister Joe Cassar – the latter of whom tendered his resignation after MaltaToday revealed that he had accepted free construction work, paid for by entrepreneur Joe Gaffarena, in 2012.
Sunday newspaper Illum uses snakes and ladders to show which politicians and Maltese personalities had a good or bad year. The newspaper reads how 2015 was a year to forget for former Nationalist MPs Joe Cassar and Giovanna Debono, and parliamentary secretary Ian Borg due to their respective controversies. The newspaper also reads how both party leaders, Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Front Harsien ODZ co-founder Michael Briguglio impressed in ratings.
The Sunday Times of Malta says thousands of hoax fire engine calls have been made on emergency line 112 in more than a decade, but nobody has ever been charged with these offences. The newspaper also carries an interview with Pierre Baldacchino, the Maltese man who was abducted in Libya.
The Malta Independent on Sunday says the government is employing a total of 542 persons in ‘positions of trust’ without the usual call for applications.
It-Torca says 30 years after the murder of Raymond Caruana in 1986, Anthony Carabott ‘it-Totó’, wants to clear his name as he is still being implicated in the murder.
PN news organ il-mument says the link between the abduction of Maltese nationals in Libya and the issuing of Maltese visas to Libyans is not excluded.
Kullhadd quotes tourism minister Edward Zammit Lewis in saying that in spite of the restructuring process at Air Malta, Malta’s national airline will remain crucial for the country.
