These are the leading articles in local newspapers this Sunday.
The Sunday Times of Malta leads with results of an ongoing Mater Dei study that found that around a quarter of all local COVID-19 patients still reported symptoms, several months after recovering from the virus.
The newspaper also reports that the father of a teenage German boy found dead in Malta five years ago has asked courts in Germany to tell Maltese authorities to reopen the mysterious case.
Malta Today leads with a report about a stern admonishment which the Constitutional court gave prosecutors leading the Enemalta oil scandal case, where it noted that in 15 out of 27 scheduled court sittings, nothing had happened.
Dragut s climactic vengeance on Gozo in 1551
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What s going on? - Laying of services, high land prices raise spectre of development in Wardija
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Urlaub auf Malta: Tui verbietet Geimpften den Flug – DAS ist der Grund
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Olympic athletes’ conundrum
I find this bit of news about the Olympics rather distressing. Having been a sporting woman all my life, I find it incredible that the World Olympic Committee has decided to disregard fair competition which is the soul of the Olympics.
I am enclosing the text so that readers will see for themselves what is going on.
“The Tokyo Olympics begin on July 23 and, thanks to a rule change, male-born athletes are now allowed to compete alongside women in female categories.
“Disturbingly, the selection of Laurel Hubbard, a biological male, for the New Zealand women’s weightlifting team has robbed a 21-year-old woman from Tonga of the life-changing opportunity to compete in her first Olympics and demoralised the entire female weightlifting community who are asking: what is the point in competing?