The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

The Sunday Times of Malta says obesity and diabetes type 2 cost Malta €53 million this year, a financial burden that is eating up five per cent of the country’s total health expenditure. In another story, it says Malta Enterprise and the government have committed taxpayers to a financial exposure of €81 million to lure Crane Currency to Malta.

The Malta Independent on Sunday says that according to reports from Costa Rica, Maltese passport holders have been implicated by the authorities in the Latin American country in the alleged use of falsified Schengen visas for the trafficking of minors.

Malta Today says the police have traced the source of payments for a property in Rabat, owned by Edward Caruana, employed with the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Schools as a person of trust and seconded to the Rural Development Department.

Illum says the social partners prefer an increase and revision of the Cost of Living Adjustment instead of a €950 increase in the minimum wage.

Il-Mument says that people working in precarious conditions who form part of a scheme operated between the government and the General Workers’ Union are expected to set up a house union.

Kullħadd says two members of the Nationalist Party’s administrative council have declared in writing that candidate Salvu Mallia’s attitude is unacceptable.