The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.
Times of Malta says Malta Enterprise is attempting to keep a memorandum of understanding it signed with Vitals Global Healthcare under wraps in a year-long battle over a freedom of information request. In another story, it says that more than 1,800 drivers were stopped around Malta on New Year’s Eve, yet not one of them were caught drink-driving.
The Malta Independent says more groups are calling on the government to adopt the Nordic model in its attempts to regulate the prostitution industry.
In-Nazzjon says that an assistant commissioner has a serious drink problem according to officers under his watch.
L-Orizzont quotes Justice Minister Owen Bonnici saying he is taking the case of prisoner and kidney patient Christopher Bartolo very seriously.