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TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT/COVID19 SUNDAY • 7 FEBRUARY 2021 • ISSUE 110 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday At 62, diver and clean-up activist Raniero Borg has a mission PAGE 14 CLEAN-UP HERO MICHAEL FALZON €1.95 DRUGS KURT SANSONE ROBERT Abela's trust rating has slipped to 41.7% as it maintained the downward trajec- tory of the last few months, a MaltaToday sur- vey shows. The Prime Minister saw his trust rating drop by 0.4 points in the Feb- ruary survey released today, when compared to last month. Although the decrease is marginal, the result is Abela's lowest trust rat- ing since becoming leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister in January last year. Abela has been losing ground since November when his trust rating stood at 48.4%. His downward trajectory contrasts with Opposition leader Bernard Grech's per- formance, which continues to improve. In the latest survey, Grech's trust rating stands at 35.1%, a marginal increase of 0.4 points over last month. Managers told him to issue tender, but Bundy unilaterally ignored PBS procurement rules, confidential report shows MATTHEW VELLA FORMER Public Broadcast- ing Services CEO John Bun- dy's decision to steam ahead on a massive car leasing agreement with Burmarrad Commercials, was in viola- tion of the PBS procurement procedures, an internal in- quiry carried out by auditors RSM concluded. The audit, carried out be- tween October-November 2017 and now seen by Mal- taToday for the first time, motivated the final decision by the PBS board to dismiss Bundy, who however this week won an unfair dismiss- al case before the Industrial Tribunal. The confidential RSM in- quiry was the second inves- tigation carried out at the behest of PBS, after the De- partment of Contracts itself found that the €400,000 leas- ing contract of eight years, was a "flagrant breach" of procurement rules. MaltaToday Survey Sandra Scicluna: Reforming our drug laws INTERVEW MT2 PGS 4-5 Abela slips further as Grech outperforms PN mt survey 12-13 Why the PN remains stuck COMMENT MT2 Delia: €500k flop PG3 Bundy ignored PBS rules, did not tell directors of €400,000 car deal Confidential RSM audit into €400,000 car deal that cost Bundy his PBS job Former PBS chief executive John Bundy: confidential report reveals the deliberate manner in which procurement rules were discarded