Balluta Bay is only one bastion
Who will win indeed over the Balluta Bay tussle? Watching carefully over the next 15 or so months, however, is not the only poi
Uglification of Malta
I was somewhat bemused to read Nazzareno Vassallo’s interview regarding the above a few weeks ago. While in no way intending this personally, it struck a disingenuous note for one of our foremost developers to lament that it is now too late to save our country from cannibalising itself through concrete, citing ‘precedents’.
Surely, the pressure to have construction/development guidelines capitulate like dominoes and permits to be granted like ‘pastizzi’, thereby creating the said precedents, originated from an unfettered construction industry in the first place.
Obviously, our quality of life has long been sacrificed but since ‘Tourism is our main economy pillar’ (May 24), why is Malta on such a demented mission to uglify itself via tearing down character for soulless unfinished builds?
Why Labour attracts young people
Bernard Grech, who stupidly said that “young people are being attracted to Labour due to the cannabis”, keeps making a name for himself for his incoherent, at times totally ridiculous, statements!
When his interviewer, Peppi Azzopardi, questioned Grech: “Are you saying that young people are being attracted to Labour just because of cannabis?” the ‘temporary’ or stop-gap leader of the PN reiterated his claim.
This was a direct insult to the intelligence of the vast majority of young people. As well as those who watched this interview.
How can young people be attracted to the PN when it is being led by someone who never expresses his opinion on controversial subjects?
Wake-up call
I refer to the editorial ‘Malta’s war on nature’ (April 16)and Madeleine Gera’s letter (April 17).
Our incessant ‘development’ and its attendant pollution from dust and concrete – itself a disastrously polluting material – not to mention the particulates clogging our air from traffic, is short-sighted and idiotic.
Readers may be interested in a paper from the Annals of the American Thoracic Society – ‘COVID-19 pandemic, a wake-up call for clean air’.
It is ironic that while, on one hand, we may be risking public health and economic recovery by courting the vital tourist dollar, we then proceed to kill the goose laying the golden egg by uglifying everything and destroying assets such as Ġgantija.
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