Government MP enjoins wardens firm staff to do their duty

The director of St George's Bay Hotel Limited yesterday filed a judicial protest against Guard and Warden Limited requesting it to ensure its employees carry out their duty by seeing that the entrance to a private parking area is no longer blocked by parked cars.

The company's director, Franco Galea, a government member of Parliament, explained that despite the fact that the private parking area had no-parking signs displayed on its entry and exit gates, both were constantly blocked by a parked car.

Although the company was employing guards, from Guard and Warden Limited, to watch the gates, the guards were not doing anything to control the abuse.

On the contrary, Galea explained that when he parked his car behind a vehicle that blocked a gate or when he parked across the road in private property owned by his company he himself was booked.

Therefore, not only was Galea hindered from using a parking space reserved for him, but he ended up in the "ridiculous situation" of not having granted himself permission to park in a reserved space.

As a result, Galea explained, he had to leave work several times to contest the citations at the local tribunals. To make matters worse, he said, he sometimes did not make it to the tribunal because he would be blocked in the parking area.

Galea ended the writ by asking Guard and Warden Limited to take the necessary steps to solve the situation.

Dr Joseph Giglio signed the writ.