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Newspaper post PHOTO OMAR CAMILLERI/DOI maltatoday YOUR FIRST READ AND FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT today €1.40 IN PRAISE OF BOREDOM FREE Sex trumps the summit The Cardona allegations open up a debate on journalism, truth and the sex industry COMMENT 20-27 today today SUNDAY • 5 FEBRUARY 2017 • ISSUE 900 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY 30 SAVIOUR BALZAN NATIONALIST MP Chris Said has asked Home Affairs minister Carmelo Abela in parliament to come clean over information that the police has not arraigned a number of individuals arrested on drug charges. "Very few arraignments are made and at times concrete action has only been taken because police officers from Malta are de- ployed in Gozo," Said said during an inter- vention in Parliament earlier this week. Said has alleged that "secret meetings" are held in a ministry, in order to have people caught with drugs avoid being ar- raigned. The former justice minister also remind- ed the minister that the information could easily be compiled by his officials, by ana- lysing the discrepancy between those ar- rested and those arraigned in the Maltese and Gozitan courts. The question led to an angry reaction from Carmelo Abela who asked Said to substantiate his claims. PAGE 3 MP raises hornet's nest over ignored drug charges PAGE 2 Workers risk abuse with watered-down jobs scheme TIM DIACONO A job centre for workers seeking short-term employment that was originally intended by the government as a way of clamping down on the exploitation of migrants, will not in fact include any safeguards against worker abuse. The scheme, set to be launched by the end of March, will establish two job brokerage of- fices at the Marsa and Hal Far open centres, which host asylum seekers and refugees. Instead of loitering for work at popular hangouts like the Marsa bypass roundabout, these workers will instead have to register themselves and state their skills at one of the brokerage offices. Employers seeking short- term employment will then apply at one of the offices, which will match them up with migrant workers on their records. Are we over- scheduling kids' lives with so many after- school activities? 14 15 Tangled up in leather AT €74 MILLION, I.T.S. RELOCATION COSTS MORE THAN €60m HARD ROCK SALE PAGE 3 PAGE 6 TE FIT-TAZZA Europe's premiers and their spouses join Muscat and wife Michelle for tea and pastizzi in Rabat. After Friday's Malta summit however, critics digesting the EU's migration plan are dismayed PAGES 5-6 Joseph Muscat (centre) hosts prime ministers Miro Cerar (hidden), and from right to left, Xavier Bettel and Charles Michel, and spouses Jo Caruana plunges into the steamy black comedy Venus in Fur February 2017 - Issue 86 www.vida.com.mt ALTERNATIVE VALENTINE'S How to beat the clichés BURN THAT FAT 13 tips to boost your metabolism CASUAL AND COOL Keeping up with fashion trends doesn't have to hurt