Good morning. The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.
Times of Malta says industry sources told the Investigative Reporting Project in Italy that gaming companies threatened to leave Malta after Italian prosecutors exposed mafia infiltration of the industry. In another story, the newspaper says plans for a new oil storage terminal in Birżebbuġa were turned down by the Planning Authority after years circling the drain.
L-Orizzont says educators providing supervised school transport are to be given the money they are due in the shortest time possible.
The Malta Independent says former Nationalist Party candidate and businessman Ivan Bartolo, who led the Nationalist Party’s business development plan, said in a Facebook post he has left the party and quit politics.