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Newspaper post SUNDAY • 28 AUGUST 2016 • ISSUE 877 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY SUNDAY • 28 AUGUST 2016 • ISSUE 877 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY maltatoday YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT 'Syria shows us that in this postmodern world, we are tasting the meaning of the destruction of values' €1.40 SUNDAY • 28 AUGUST 2016 • ISSUE 877 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY today • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY NATURE Malta dogs to the rescue SOS Malta sniffer dogs recover bodies from Amatrice ruins BACK PAGE 16 17 Lebanese novelist and intellectual ELIAS KHOURY JURGEN BALZAN FORMER Labour Party secretary- general and elec- tion candidate Ja- son Micallef has seen his salary as V18 chairman go up from €13,000 to €25,000. In comments to Mal- taToday, Micallef – who is also chairman of La- bour's TV station ONE – confirmed that he now receives €25,000 for his role as V18 chairman, adding that he currently puts in 20 hours a week at the helm of the board leading Valletta as the European Capital for Culture in 2018. Labour MP accused of plagiarising fuel pump planning documents MATTHEW AGIUS THE scramble for land for a petrol station in Burmarrad, which has seen two rival companies vying for a permit on adjacent plots of land, has taken a new twist after the environmental consultant of one of the petrol stations accused architect and Labour MP Charles Buhagiar, of copying parts of a planning document presented to the Environment and Resources Authority. Environmental consultant Joe Doublet called on the law courts to declare that a planning document describing the potential environ- mental impact of a petrol station in Burmarrad, as having breached his copyright. In a judicial protest filed earlier this month against Charles Buhagiar, his architect's firm Med Design Associates, and the petrol pump appli- cants Easysell Kia, Doublet called on the defendants to cease and de- sist from the continued breach of his rights and reach a mutual agreement on damages payable to him. Charles Buhagiar denies allegations he lifted entire planning statement from rival fuel station firm seeking Burmarrad permit on adjacent piece of land PAGE 6 V18 chairman's remuneration doubles to €25,000 leading Valletta as the PAGE 4 tasting the meaning of the 14 15 PHOTO RAY ATTARD PHOTO RAY ATTARD Planning Authority is legally obliged to refund 90% of the fees applicants pay to regularise illegalities if their application is rejected, but it is under no legal obligation to ask these owners to remove the illegalities Planning amnesty Failed applicants risk enforcement 3 SUNDAY • malta 1.40 SUNDAY • NATURE 16 17 16 17 Are the Maltese really not in love with trees? A nation of tree-haters?