Two agreements recently signed by the government and Aġenzija Sapport with two major NGOs – the Foundation for Respite Care Services’ Dar il-Kaptan
Football clubs Rabat Ajax and Mtarfa will get their own respective playing grounds after an agreement signed with the government on Saturday.
The agreement will see the Public Works Department carry out the necessary works on the sports facilities, which include a football stadium, another 5-a-side stadium and a track.
The government will also be funding alternative spaces for Mtarfa s sports communities to train while works are being carried out, to the tune of €70,000 per year.
MFA President Bjorn Vassallo said: “The sports infrastructure in our country is essential not only for athletes to continue training and practising in state-of-the-art facilities but also for the administration to be able to organize at the community level many activities that benefit our society. The MFA, therefore, remains committed to ensure that all its members have adequate facilities to accommodate the thousands of children who attend in clean and healthy places that offer so much gain for t
Prime Minister admits SVPR contract slammed by audit office should have been approved by Cabinet
Prime Minister Robert Abela says a multi-million-euro management contract awarded by direct order at St Vincent de Paul should have been presented to Cabinet for approval
3 May 2021, 11:11am
by Kurt Sansone
A contract like that awarded by St Vincent de Paul, which the National Audit Office said broke the law, should have been approved by Cabinet, Robert Abela said.
The Prime Minister said on Monday that the NAO report was being analysed in detail and government “will learn from the mistakes”.
“A project like that should be approved by Cabinet,” he said, acknowledging one of the irregular issues flagged by the NAO.
The following are the main stories in Friday’s newspapers.
Times of Malta says a court found that the Armed Forces of Malta were mainly responsible for the death of a 19-year-old soldier during a training exercise 12 years ago, prompting his uncle to call out the “sham inquiry” that had failed to apportion blame following the incident. The newspaper also has more stories on the Passport Papers, saying that Henley & Partners was “prepared” for the potential launch of a Malta passport sales scheme to rich foreigners months before a public call for the scheme was issued in 2013.
The Malta Independent also has more stories on the Passport Papers leading with one on the IIP rental market.
A miserly democracy is a miserable one; robust democracies cost money. A representative democracy is living a lie if half its population only features as 15 per cent of its House of Representatives.
I like the aim of the gender parity bill, passed last week, and I’m unbothered by its expense. It introduces a mechanism that kicks into effect at the next general election. It’s expected to add a dozen women MPs (six Labour, six Nationalist) above the 65 MPs elected according to the usual procedure.
But I don’t think we’re being given the underlying story straight.
Ramona Attard, the president of the Labour Party, says that, had the bill not passed, we would have seen a repeat – in terms of women elected to parliament – of the 2017 general election. But the total proportion of women MPs is not the whole story of that election.