Heritage at risk
Din l-Art Helwa's very commendable public efforts to help safeguard the country's built heritage (editorial, November 9) and the commendations from the highest in the land to the press for helping foster people's pride in the island's rich cultural...
Din l-Art Helwa's very commendable public efforts to help safeguard the country's built heritage (editorial, November 9) and the commendations from the highest in the land to the press for helping foster people's pride in the island's rich cultural heritage are taken with more than a pinch of salt by the likes of us plebs.
This NGO remained steadfastly deaf to our several appeals over many months to help us protect the extensive, well-documented underground war-time (and other) heritage at Hamrun. The same can unfortunately be said of Heritage Malta and the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage.
We have retained copies of all e-mails, letters and other documentation sent to these august bodies.
All of the war-time heritage beneath High Street, Hamrun (and elsewhere for that matter) now faces a very uncertain future thanks to the convenient precedent that was created when a DCC permit, PA/05495/02, was approved, allowing the excavation for the purpose of a commercial basement and drainage system, of ground underneath which lie war-time and other heritage that is clearly protected by the cultural heritage law of Malta.