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Newspaper post 16 17 €1.40 'Politicians have become jesters, a joke' SUNDAY • 15 MAY 2016 • ISSUE 862 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT SUNDAY • SUNDAY • 15 MAY 2016 • ISSUE 862 15 MAY 2016 • ISSUE 862 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT maltatoday Got what it takes to be a straight A student? PANAMA PAPERS INTERVIEW Andrew Azzopardi 14 15 Did Belarus oligarch's wife use Malta to open secret BVI companies? 10 11 Six top students tell us all about it Barts invite doctors to join board, but government will pay Panama Papers Minister Scicluna unaware of hotel's BVI holding Planning authority ombudsman's conflict flagged in complaint to Speaker, PM MATTHEW VELLA BARTS medical school will be making an un- specified contribution to the government cof- fers, according to an agreement between the two sides to host a new medical school. But it will be the State which will remuner- ate specialists who take up clinical tutor posts with Barts when these join a new board to im- plement the Barts medical course programme, MaltaToday has learnt. The system has puzzled doctors who in the past weeks were informed by Professor An- thony Warrens, the dean for education at Barts School of Medicine and Dentistry, that the medical school was soliciting applications from medically qualified individuals, to join the implementation board for the Barts bach- elor of science programme in Malta. It will be an honorary appointment, Warrens told the Maltese doctors, which means that postholders on the Barts Malta programme implementation board will not be paid. "How- ever, as part of our agreement with the govern- ment of Malta, they will be remunerated for their time spent at meet- ings of the board." AN anonymous com- plaint sent to the Speaker of the House, the Prime Minister and Opposition lead- er, and the Ombuds- man, has alleged that planning ombuds- man David Pace has breached the terms of his office by accepting income from his pro- fession as architect. The complaint stems from an earlier pro- test by environmen- tal NGO Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, during public sub- missions in 2013 on the change of use of a Valletta store to a fishmonger during which it was alleged that Pace's name on the application "could have exercised indi- rect pressure on some members of the En- vironment Planning Commission". their time spent at meet- PAGE 3 PAGE 9 Brilliant Ira It's farewell to the Eurovision for now, as mother- to-be Ira Losco makes Malta proud with strong performance holding PAGE 10 2