mid week Wednesday, 14 November 2007 – issue 31 maltatoday 16c /€0.37 www.maltatoday.com.mt 159, Labour Avenue, Naxxar Tel: 2388 0088, 7939 2939 Newspaper post BANNED Bondiplus costings ‘reasonable, but not all mine’ – Tonio Fenech JAMES DEBONO THE parliamentary secretary for finance Tonio Fenech has denied that government had ac- tually costed Labour’s propos- als to subsidise interest rates for first-time buyers at Lm60 mil- lion – instead taking respon- sibility only for the costing of Labour’s overtime proposal pre- sented last week on Bondiplus. The debatable maths pitted Labour against TV presenter Lou Bondì after a programme featuring Fenech and MLP deputy leader Charles Man- gion. In a two-minute right of reply aired last Monday on Bondiplus, Labour claimed the cost of four proposals was Lm15 million, and not Lm115 million as presented by Bondì. Fenech also told MaltaToday he did not envisage a Lm5 mil- lion loss in government revenue should public holidays falling on a weekend be compensated by leave days – another of La- bour’s proposals – arguing in- stead that the figure quoted by on the programme represented a drop in productivity that would be suffered by the economy in general. ‘Brute force’ victim demands € 30,000 in compensation… from MaltaToday FIVE months ago, MaltaToday Midweek was instrumental in revealing the shocking use of brute force of a police sergeant on a French national. Now, Catherine Sophie Per- nod Sprangers, the 58-year-old French woman who was kicked unconscious in her car by the police sergeant in May, is de- manding that MaltaToday pay her €30,000 in compensation for publicising a home video of the incident. In a letter to the editor of this newspaper, Sprangers also claims to have been the victim of verbal abuse directed at her by the magistrate and lawyers in the case against David Sant, the 46-year-old police sergeant accused of assaulting her during an altercation in Paceville on 10 May. “In the Magistrates’ Court I even experienced being insult- ed and threatened both by the other party’s solicitor and the Magistrate,” Sprangers wrote, in a letter which goes on to request “€30,000 page 7 WHAT YOUR KIDS WON’T BE BUYING AT SCHOOL NEXT YEAR Education authorities ban 16 items of junk food which schoolkids will not find on the shelves of their tuck shops as of January 2008 - Full report page 6 mid week maltatoday www.maltatoday.com.mt 16c /€0.37 Wednesday, 6 June 2007 – issue 08 4see back page RAMLA BAY Foregone conclusion? BRUTE FORCE A police sergeant kicks an elderly woman in a French licensed car right in front of Bay Street in full view of tourists More pictures and full story pages 16,17 MaltaToday survey: only SHOCKING FOOTAGE EXPOSES POLICE BRUTALITY 4page 4 Tonio Fenech LECH WALESA IN MALTA Lights, action, solidarity! See page 3 3 SPORTS Italian football in turmoil See page 28 3 BOOKS You’ve got Norman Mailer! See page 15 3
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midweek
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 – issue 31
maltatoday16c /€0.37
www.maltatoday.com.mt
159, Labour Avenue, NaxxarTel: 2388 0088, 7939 2939
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BANNEDBondiplus costings ‘reasonable, but not all mine’ – Tonio FenechJAMES DEBONO
THE parliamentary secretary for finance Tonio Fenech has denied that government had ac-
tually costed Labour’s propos-als to subsidise interest rates for first-time buyers at Lm60 mil-lion – instead taking respon-sibility only for the costing of Labour’s overtime proposal pre-
sented last week on Bondiplus.The debatable maths pitted
Labour against TV presenter Lou Bondì after a programme featuring Fenech and MLP deputy leader Charles Man-gion. In a two-minute right of reply aired last Monday on Bondiplus, Labour claimed the cost of four proposals was Lm15 million, and not Lm115 million as presented by Bondì.
Fenech also told MaltaToday he did not envisage a Lm5 mil-lion loss in government revenue should public holidays falling on a weekend be compensated by leave days – another of La-bour’s proposals – arguing in-stead that the figure quoted by on the programme represented a drop in productivity that would be suffered by the economy in general.
‘Brute force’ victim demands € 30,000 in compensation… from MaltaTodayFIVE months ago, MaltaToday Midweek was instrumental in revealing the shocking use of brute force of a police sergeant on a French national.
Now, Catherine Sophie Per-nod Sprangers, the 58-year-old French woman who was kicked unconscious in her car by the police sergeant in May, is de-manding that MaltaToday pay her €30,000 in compensation for publicising a home video of the incident.
In a letter to the editor of this newspaper, Sprangers also claims to have been the victim of verbal abuse directed at her by the magistrate and lawyers in the case against David Sant, the 46-year-old police sergeant accused of assaulting her during an altercation in Paceville on 10
May. “In the Magistrates’ Court I
even experienced being insult-ed and threatened both by the other party’s solicitor and the Magistrate,” Sprangers wrote, in a letter which goes on to request “€30,000 page 7
WHAT YOUR KIDS WON’T BE BUYING AT SCHOOL NEXT YEAR
Education authorities ban 16 items of junk food which schoolkids will not fi nd on the shelves of their tuck shops as of January 2008 - Full report page 6
midweek
maltatodaywww.maltatoday.com.mt
16c /€0.37
Wednesday, 6 June 2007 – issue 08
4see back page
RAMLA BAYForegone
conclusion?
BRUTE FORCEA police sergeant kicks an elderly woman in a French licensed car right in front of Bay Street in full view of tourists
More pictures and full story pages 16,17
MaltaToday survey: only
SHOCKING FOOTAGE EXPOSES POLICE BRUTALITY
4page 4
Tonio Fenech
LECH WALESA IN MALTA Lights, action,solidarity!See page 3 3
SPORTS Italian footballin turmoilSee page 28 3BOOKSYou’ve gotNorman Mailer!See page 15 3
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