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TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 DISCOVER OUR NEW MANAGED SOLE AGENCY PACKAGE Achieve the best price for your property Greater marketing focus Committed professional agent Sell faster Find out more at franksalt.com.mt/soleagency SUNDAY • 16 AUGUST 2020 • ISSUE 1085 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY THE Q&A MT3 Singer Enya Magri hits the high notes What makes Bernard likeable? MATTHEW AGIUS MALTA'S prime minister Robert Abela returned today from a quick weekend trip in Sicily. But his getaway at the height of a health crisis, was rudely interrupted by bad news on Malta's pandemic front: 72 new cases of COV- ID-19 in signs of a worrying spike for the island. The increase in just 24 hours was the highest in- crease in recorded cases to date, coming hot on calls to the Public Health Superin- tendent to sound the alarm once again. In the same period, 20 people have recovered from the virus. The total number of active cases now stands at 557. A substantial 2,435 swab tests were carried out in the past 24 hours. Degiorgios knew Muscat had spilled beans two days after police talks maltatoday Our survey called it: Grech's star has long been on the rise PAGE 12 €1.95 SAVIOUR BALZAN THE investigators in the Caruana Galizia assassination ignored infor- mation given to them by criminal ac- cused Vince Muscat 'il-Kohhu', with top brass in Castille having played down the value of information Muscat gave on middleman Melvin Theuma as early as April 2018. In a bid for a presidential pardon, Muscat is said to have not only of- fered up the name of middleman Melvin Theuma, but also a long list of details on past crimes. But the information was not giv- en in the presence of the Attorney General, and subsequently Mus- cat's decision to cooperate with po- lice reached the ears of the Degior- gio brothers, George and Alfred. Abela's Sicily getaway is ruined by record 72 cases COVID-19 PGS 2-3 PAGE 9 AG PETER GRECH RESIGNS Attorney General whose role in Panama scandal left bad aftertaste PAGE 5 18 March, 2018: Vincent Muscat (third from left), Alfred Degiorgio (centre, looking away) and his brother George Degiorgio (behind him) look out at the scene of Caruana Galizia's assassination Family and the Xarabank factor PAGES 14-15 The bold and the bland PAGE 13