The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says unprecedented industrial action is on the cards at the Broadcasting Authority, as the lines of communication between the constitutional body staff and its chairwoman, Tanya Borg Cardona, have broken down. In another story, it says official figures show that hardly any of the 25,000 people who snapped up new full-time jobs in the past three years joined a trade union.

The Malta Independent says that fish slime has reappeared amid claims of a new illegal tuna farm.

L-Orizzont says experts are saying that lower poverty rates are to be registered 2016 with half of the poverty accumulated in the past legislature having being removed by this government’s mid-term.

In-Nazzjon says that Malta’s Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit has a cooperation agreement with Panama’s Financial Intelligence Unit.