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TRUTH IS OF NO COLOUR WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY • 22 JANUARY 2023 • ISSUE 1212 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday → direct Bespoke investment service tailored to your specific needs. discretionary portfolio management and receive a top-up of up to €200* Apply now medirect.com.mt 2557 4400 MeDirect Bank (Malta) plc, company registration number C34125, is licensed to undertake the business of banking in terms of the Banking Act (Cap. 371) and investment services under the Investment Services Act (Cap. 370). PAGE 3 PAGE 3 Ten years on, no justice has been served on the Enemalta oil scandal PAGES 14-15 ENEMALTA OIL SCANDAL €1.95 Superboss capture is historic for Italy, but not the end of the Mafia... PAGES 8-9 End of an era? DARREN CARABOTT MATTHEW VELLA A parliamentary group meeting of the National- ist Party in Pietà saw party heavyweights and shadow ministers openly question Bernard Grech's dimin- ished presence as a leader. The air inside the PN just a year off the 2024 European and local coun- cil elections is yet again that of resignation, as the party seems to be inactive on various fronts, save for the unity it has garnered on opposition to Labour's amendments to the Crim- inal Code on Malta's abor- tion ban. On Tuesday last week, Bernard Grech's request to his leading MPs and shad- ow ministers to present him with working plans for the issues they will be following up in 2023, was met with questions from the parliamentary group about his role in shaping the political agenda. Voices such as those of Beppe Fenech Adami, the new heavyweight Joe Giglio, and newcomer Darren Carabott, asked Grech that it was not enough for them to have a plan of action. "He was told, 'we need sound and determined leadership'," one PN source told Malt- aToday about the meeting. Bernard Grech quizzed by PN heavyweights over 'weak leadership' MATTHEW VELLA GOZO'S association of tour- ism operators has reiterated its stand in favour of the extension of the helipad at Ta' Lambert into an airstrip, and likened the project to tax-funded projects delivering public services such as the Gozo Channel, the fast ferry or even basic roadworks. The GTA was reacting to a statement from former La- bour prime minister and MEP Alfred Sant, who poured cold water over the government's plans to extend the airstrip for a fixed-wing service to the is- land. 'Unprofitable' Gozo air service could be tax- funded - GTA Lingering cough and cold? Higher amounts of respiratory virus cases when compared to pre-COVID years BACK PAGE GTA takes exception at strong statement from former Labour PM Alfred Sant on 'bound-to-fail' service The PN's young MP and PAC chair is a straight-talker INTERVIEW MT2