UĦM welcomes City Gate project
The Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin has welcomed the project regenerating the entrance to Valletta but said a target date for conclusion of the project should be established.
The union said that the one should ensure value for money and the total expenditure should match the estimate.
The project , the union said, should help the country’s economy at a time when economic indicators were sending signals of a slowdown because of the international crisis.
However, the UĦM believed that in such a capital project the government should ensure maximum control and efficiency for money to be well spent.
The public, it said, has to be assured that the project would be well and effectively managed.
But the choice of Renzo Piano for the design work on the project should aid the capital to continue acquiring the prestige such a city deserved.
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lgalea
Dec 9th 2008, 22:08
Can the UHM tell us where the money is coming from?
Perhaps from the water and electricity tariffs, among other taxes?
IS that why, perhaps, the UHM and the CMTU accepted the Gonzipn tariffs which are based on false premises not to say information?
J Busuttil
Dec 9th 2008, 18:46
Those who's mind think as that of the GWU always try in vain to criticise the UHM. Now that the UHM welcomed the City Gate project and demanded that the time limit to end the project is kept,they still criticise unjustly UHM. What they simply want is the UHM to be like 'L-Orizzont' ,the voice of the MLP. When the UHM took part in the demonstration they were all praises but if the UHM sees something positive and say so they see red. As I always say they are only MLP diehards.
G Camilleri
Dec 9th 2008, 18:21
First UHM agrees with the Electricity tariffs and now with the City Gate project. No wonder we have a UHM=CMTU=GonziPN
Robert Cuschieri
Dec 9th 2008, 18:05
"The Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin has welcomed the project regenerating the entrance to Valletta but said a target date for conclusion of the project should be established."
More importantly the government should establish a target maximum cost of the project since this is all going to be tax payers' money.
We already saw Mater Dei's final cost rise and rise and multiply year after year until the hospital was finally finished.
Steve Rogers
Dec 9th 2008, 15:51
"In the meantime, Malta moves on to bigger and better things while they watch from the sidelines."
Kind of like your doing Joe!
J Martinelli
Dec 9th 2008, 13:55
@ Angelo Micallef
All the Jeremiahs, the prophets of doom and gloom, always look to criticize projects which they had an opportunity to accomplish themselves but were not confident enough of being able to start and finish.
In the meantime, Malta moves on to bigger and better things while they watch from the sidelines.
The UHM unlike the GWU has the courage to call a spade 'a spade'.
Byron Camilleri
Dec 9th 2008, 13:16
Why did the UHM take so long to issue this statement? Maybe they want to keep the discussion going for the longest possible? Maybe they want us to forget the water & electricity increase?
Angelo Micallef
Dec 9th 2008, 12:11
It is interesting how J Baldacchino attacks the UHM for issuing two positive statements but sees nothing wrong in how the GWU curiously always has an identical position to that of the MLP or should I start using PL now?
Indeed the GWU has an entire newspaper (L-Orizzont, Gurnal Indipdenti ta' Kuljum) which is basically there to heep praise on the MLP. Is that okay for J Baldacchino?
ALBERT FENECH
Dec 9th 2008, 11:57
With such "statements" one begins to wonder whether the GONZIPN, or the BOPN or the GATTPN (whatever they choose to call themselves), have "leaned" heavily on UHM to get back into PN Party lines and stop rocking the boat. I have no doubt that Pieta' HQ was recently shocked to see the UHM begin to make rumbling noises that seemed to be aligning themselves to the GWU!
Mario Tabone-Vassallo
Dec 9th 2008, 11:56
It does not do the government too much good to have its opinion echoed and not discussed, for whatever reason. This approach is what landed us with the current City Gate
Joseph Gatt
Dec 9th 2008, 11:51
Joseph Gatt
It will be better for us if the UHM would find the calculator used a long time ago, when the rise for the COLA should have been Lm9.00 as worked out with the UHM formula. They could then tell us what the rise should now be.
J Baldacchino
Dec 9th 2008, 10:50
Another welcome from UHM.
Welcome No.1 > Electricity and Water Tariffs
Welcome No.2 > City Gate Project.
UHM stated that regarding City Gate Project "one should ensure value for money" (see article)
UHM could you tell us if the new Electircity rates as accepted by you are "value for money"