Momentum leader Arnold Cassola is calling on Prime Minister Robert Abela to demand that Finance Minister Clyde Caruana and former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat hand over a 300-page report on Malta’s population. The demand comes following reports that the document, which was commissioned during Muscat’s time as Prime Minister, was never presented to
Clyde Caruana never gave Robert Abela the population report he says was ignored for years, the office of the prime minister (OPM) said. The report was “never presented to the cabinet of ministers presided by Prime Minister Robert Abela, nor to the prime minister himself,” an OPM spokesperson said in reply to questions. It also appears the document
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana on Wednesday continued to refuse to publish a report he submitted to the government eight years ago on the impact of rapid population growth on various sectors of the country. The existence of the report, drawn up when Caruana was CEO of the Employment and Training Agency, was confirmed by Caruana himself in remarks to
Clyde Caruana bypassed his minister, Evarist Bartolo, and took instructions directly from Joseph Muscat while overseeing the recruitment of foreign workers and establig employment policy, Education Ministry insiders revealed to The Shift. Their accounts challenge the finance minister’s portrayal of himself as an ignored adviser whose warnings about
Momentum on Monday called on Clyde Caruana to publish a 300-page report he said he had prepared in 2018 for the Government warning about the risks of population growth. The finance minister told a Times of Malta interview that he had warned his own government about the problems that would emerge from Malta’s population boom as far back as 2018, but