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Destiny Chuckunyere and her Eurovision Song Contest performance take centre stage on this Sunday’s newspapers, with a photo of the Maltese singer featuring on all front pages. The Sunday Times of Malta reports that Malta lost an area the size of 250 football pitches to development over the past three years. The calculation was made by researchers using satellite imagery. The newspaper also reports that former Progress Press managing director Adrian Hillman was arrested by police in the UK this week, ahead of his extradition. His lawyer says Hillman will not fight extradition and will be ret...

Hillman, who is wanted by the Maltese police on charges of money laundering and corruption, is the subject of an extradition request from the UK where he currently lives.

Ronald Agius, former managing director of Allied Newspapers and Progress Press, has died, aged 88. Born in Sliema, Agius was educated at St Edward’s College and joined Progress Press in 1962 as a manager in the Publication Department. He was subsequently appointed managing director of Allied Newspapers in 1968 and chairman of Progress Press in 1979. Agius left Allied Newspapers Ltd in 2003, having spent 41 years with the company, including 38 as managing director. Agius was a founding member of the council of the Strickland Foundation and was a long-time member of the Malta Employers' Assoc...

Progress Press files legal bid to recoup $5 million from Keith Schembri Allied Newspapers company starts legal proceedings to recover $5 million from Keith Schembri and former directors 19 May 2021, 2:06pm by Matthew Vella The printing arm of Allied Group, Progress Press, has filed judicial protests in Court against the former chief of staff to the Prime Minister Keith Schembri and two of its former managing directors, to recoup some $5 million when it purchased printing machinery in 2008 from Schembri’s Kasco Engineering. The company maintains that Keith Schembri, former directors Adrian ...

Progress Press has initiated legal proceedings to recoup US$5 million from Keith Schembri and two of its former top officials.  The company said in a statement released on Wednesday that it had filed judicial protests in court against Schembri, who formerly served as chief of staff at the Office of the Prime Minister, Adrian Hillman and Vincent Buhagiar. The action comes after police began criminal proceedings against Schembri and Buhagiar for alleged bribery and money laundering and extradition proceedings for UK-based Hillman, linked to a massive investment undertaken by the printing compa...