The Qui-Si-Sana caper
I lived in Qui-si-Sana for 10 years during my teenage years. When I married in 1961 I lived in Msida for seven years, where the police would not control a prostitute selling her wares right beneath my apartment in Testaferrata Road, which was still a...
I lived in Qui-si-Sana for 10 years during my teenage years. When I married in 1961 I lived in Msida for seven years, where the police would not control a prostitute selling her wares right beneath my apartment in Testaferrata Road, which was still a decent place in the early 1960s. I also lived in Lija for a further seven years.
In 1973 I returned to Sliema where I intend to stay till the Lord calls me. There I had a bad experience with a garage which was converted into a restaurant without a permit and ended up with a gun slinging fight at 1 a.m. on Easter Sunday.
I helped set up the resident's associations, the forerunners of the local councils, which signalled the demise of the former. So I think I have a right to advance my opinion about Qui-Si-Sana as any other Sliema resident.
No government including the current one has ever been able to control let alone stop inconveniences caused by restaurants and entertainment centres in residential areas around Malta. Paceville, Bugibba and Sliema come to mind. So to the Prime Minister's assurances lately on TV that the Qui-Si-Sana complex will be controlled if necessary, I give the thumbs down. In Malta the interest of residents comes second to business.
I am all for underground parking in Qui-Si-Sana plus a kiosk like the one in Fond Ghadir surrounded by a garden and playground. Nothing else! If this is not commercially viable, then hard luck. I am supporting the residents and I know where my vote may go in 2008.