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4 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 15 APRIL 2020 NEWS SCOOTER 001 SHARING THE PRESENT, SO WE CAN BUILD A BETTER FUTURE. One app. Over 450 shared vehicles. Pay per minute, per hour or per day. goto.com.mt/download * Rate per minute for Scooter trips on the GoTo Business Plan. Terms and Conditions apply. €1.50 PAGE 2 PAGE 5 Silvio Schembri apologises for 'unfortunate' foreign workers comments Banking customers offered home loan moratorium due to Covid-19 THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2020 • ISSUE 50 WWW.BUSINESSTODAY.COM.MT DAVID HUDSON A rescue package worth €1.8 bil- lion has been unveiled to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the economy. PAGE 3 PAGE 2 Editorial PAGE 9 RIDING OUT THE STORM AND SAVING JOBS Coronavirus Government announces €1.8b rescue package to mitigate crisis Robert Abela BOV registers pre-tax profit of €89.2m • Government to pay companies €350 per employee on quarantine leave • Businesses ordered to shut down temporarily, will receive two days of assistance per week per employee Id-dinja dieħla f'riċessjoni? U Malta? www.illum.com.mt ARA PAĠNI 12 u 13 €1.25 IL-ĦADD 22 TA' MARZU 2020 • NRU 701 'Il-Gvern huwa rrassenjat li se nitilfu x-xogħol. Mentri aħna rridu nsalvawh' 'ROBERT GĦINNA QABEL IKUN TARD WISQ' Il-GWU, l-MHRA, il-GRTU, il-FATTA u l-UĦM mal-ILLUM iwissu li jekk il-Gvern mhux se jħabbar miżuri ġodda se jibdew jingħalqu n-negozji u jintilfu l-impjiegi, speċjalment fit-turiżmu, fir-ristoranti u d-divertiment! ARA PAĠNI 4 u 5 PAĠNI 10 u 11 SUNDAY • 22 MARCH 2020 • ISSUE 1064 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY €1.95 maltatoday This won't work, Robert EDITORIAL MT2 ROBERT Abela's package does not go far enough and will not work. Malta has entered a war which has destabilised the economy and all its workers. Abela cannot be scared of spending and rack- ing up the necessary government debt needed for a national stim- ulus now: the risks of not acting will be greater than what lies ahead in the next months. He must alleviate economic hard- ship during the epidemic to pre- vent lasting damage to the econ- omy by stopping this recession from turning into the next Great Depression. What Malta needs is a form of universal credit for all, to keep aggregate demand up and so that idle workers at home can return straight to work at the end of the crisis and restore the supply chain. STAY IN, STAY SAFE, WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 Our appeal is simple: Maltese businesses must be sustained by keeping workers in a job with a social insurance that sustains their wages CLAUDIO GRECH 'We cannot allow Maltese businesses to fail. We would be failing society' INTERVIEW MT2 Never before has your support of free and independent journalism been so crucial Support us with a subscription or a donation maltatoday.com.mt/maltatodaydigitaledition JAMES DEBONO THE tourism ministry has given notice it wants to relo- cate and reconstruct a "tower structure" - possibly a pigeon loft in the Kavallerizza area of Marsaxlokk – inside a valley that has been ruined by dump- ing. The valley in Marsaxlokk is adjacent to a car park that lies outside the development zones, which was developed by the government's Project Malta and whose debris was dumped in valley. Now the debris is serving as an excuse for the tower's re- location, but the Marsaxlokk "regeneration plan" approved in 2018 proposed a new road cutting through fields and over the very old tower structure. The tower in question is not a protected building, and was previously used by a famer who tilled nearby land, before the Lands Authority closed off the tower. MaltaToday is informed that the field identified for the relo- cation of the tower is adjacent to the valley-side ruined by il- legal dumping of rubble from works to construct the ODZ car park. That same car park is now identified for the devel- opment of full-blown football ground with seating, an under- lying car park, a hostel and an old people's home, in an appli- cation presented by the locali- ty's football club. It is not yet known what use will be given to the tower when it is relocated. The site identified for the re- location of the tower is con- sidered to be important for water absorption after rain. Covering it with paving and consrtruction may result in runoff of rainwater. The field used to have other stone walls which were bulldozed by rub- ble dumping from the car park, which was funded by the Euro- pean Union. Futur Ambjent Wiehed is objecting to this application. "The dismantling of a histor- ical structure and relocation deprives the environs of its context and setting. Heritage structures are not like Lego block buildings – dismount- able at will only to be set up elsewhere." The application was submit- ted on 6 January before the appointment of new tourism minister Julia Farrugia. The position was previously oc- cupied by Konrad Mizzi, who resigned in November. Miz- zi's Project Malta was also be- hind the ODZ car park which opened the floodgates for de- velopment in this area. Marsaxlokk tower to be relocated for new road