The Prime Minister’s travels

Reference is made to The Sunday Times of Malta story ‘Muscats see the world without breaking the bank’ (May 5).

The Prime Minister’s income is all listed in his declaration of assets and he holds no other income than what is publicly declared.  The choice of schooling of the children is the family’s prerogative and falls within the family’s budget.

The journalist mixes trips on official duties with the Prime Minister’s family holidays.  Had the journalist done his research properly, he would have found open source information such as Parliamentary Questions to avoid him making false assumptions and claims.

The Prime Minister’s Office follows government guidelines and long-standing procedures adopted for travelling undertaken by the Prime Minister on official trips.  The family pays for the daughters when they accompany their parents.

Holidays are always paid by the family.  The details of the family trip in 2017 which the journalist refers to were all made public by the Prime Minister himself.

It is shameful that the newspaper keeps using the same deceptive tactics before fact-checking, while trying to intermingle official duties with purely family matters.  Facts have always...