Sandra Hyzler, Swieqi.
Furthering our best interests
It is our right and duty to vote so that together we ordinary people can determine who will be sitting in Parliament, and on which side they sit. In other words, the next five years of our own prosperity and that of Malta depends on how we vote.
We must filter through the partisan ping-pong of accounts of action or lack of action so that we can decide intelligently which party is able to bring about greater development within our social and economic sectors. Certainly you should vote for whom you believe could best represent you in Parliament and not to settle a score for some disappointment or grudge borne over the past legislature. Election day is our opportunity to further our best interests, that of our family and also that of our dear island.
Whether or not all our personal expectations of a Nationalist government have been met, it would be reckless for us to fail to acknowledge its dynamism in the past years.
While Dr Sant screams Mandra Malta, we are reaping the benefits of so many government projects - the average family has certainly seen the value of the investment in education and in Mater Dei Hospital; foreign investment is already providing highly paid positions to Maltese workers; we are also doing well in the EU. All of this despite the Opposition's relentless nagging, barrage of allegations and prophecies of doom.
We Maltese have been scientifically found to be among the happiest people, yet for the Opposition we are in a mess and we need a new beginning. If we do, where will our new beginning take us exactly?
Labour claims that this new beginning will reduce the burdens of the fuel surcharge and taxes. Quite a foggy start, with fewer taxes in the coffers how could the country pay its fuel bill? Perhaps we will be chasing a bowser of the scarce resource as we did for water in the Eighties.
The Opposition pledges this, that and the other, pulling any trick it can think of out of its hat. It is indeed sad if we an intelligent, educated, generally happy, public can be duped towards such a fuzzy New Beginning, which could really be the road to mediocrity.
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Josette Camilleri
Mar 2nd 2008, 15:04
I have seen radical changes in Malta for the better, I must say. Being often away for long stays abroad, every time I come back home I am positively surprised. Not surprisingly, then, that every time I go away I am even more homesick. Living abroad, I have come face to face with a reality that many islanders do not experience directly when living permanently in Malta. The Maltese have a way of complaining about everything and idealise countries abroad. Whilst some countries may be better than ours in some instances, I can assure you that what Malta offers its citizens today and in these past ten years is far superior to what I have found in many European countries.
Recently I have visited the new hospital; I have seen the new streets and the much better upkeep of our towns and an overall cleanliness that before was merely a dream in some parts of the island. I currently am in Italy and this country is shamefully retrograded compared to our islands. For nothing in the world would I forsake anything Maltese for another country. Mine is not partisan patriotism, mind you. It is simply an experience that has developed through the years when I, personally, believed all other countries were better than mine. What a mistake!
Our health system, our educational system, our tax system, our socio-legal system would create any man's envy in some countries in Europe.
Ms. Hyzler is right when she states that "we are reaping the benefits of so many government projects" and in all truth any Maltese candidate who ventures in the EU with the educational standards and qualifications provided locally stands a really good chance of getting quality work and quality remuneration. The Maltese are known for their commitment, flexibility, eagerness and willingness to learn, their ability of working well and giving quality for the money they get. I cannot understand Dr. Sant's vision of a chained Maltese society under the PN. Are we sure this is not the usual MLP psychological projection?