Watch: Tourism and Gozo ministers deny any conflict of interest on Comino
Both Clayton Bartolo and Clint Camilleri denied any conflict of interest in controlling the excessive commercialisation of Comino, despite the fact that the tourism minister's father and uncles run a tourist ferry to the island and one of the Gozo minister's election 'canvassers' is a sunbed and umbrella operator there. "There was no conflict of interest whatsoever and efforts to improve the conditions on Comino are best judged once the holistic plan being drafted is finished and implemented," Bartolo told Times of Malta on Monday. Video: Matthew Mirabelli. On Friday, The Shift News revealed that the father and uncles of Bartolo are the owners of a company that operates daily ferry trips to Comino. On Monday, it then reported that one of the two licensed deckchair operators at the Blue Lagoon, Mark Cutajar, served as a 'canvasser' for Camilleri during this year's general election. Policies on Comino fall within the remit of both Bartolo and Camilleri's ministries. On Monday afternoon, Camilleri also denied any conflict of interest and questioned the actual role of a 'canvasser'. "It depends what you mean when you say 'canvasser'. Hundreds participated in my campaign and 6,448...