Magic Kiosk auction yields €10,000
Catering equipment, confiscated by the government from the controversial turquoise Magic Kiosk restaurant in Sliema, was sold for about €10,000 during an auction in Valletta on Saturday.
In total, 249 items were auctioned off, mostly appliances and kitchen utensils, yielding more than expected by the auctioneers, who had valued the equipment beforehand. A spokesman for the Land Department, which evicted the owner and brought down the structure, said: "We are pleased that the auction was extremely successful and very well attended".
The restaurant was demolished recently after its owner, Joe Pace, ignored two eviction notices issued by the Land Department after his lease of the land it was built on, St Anne Square, expired last year.
Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs, George Pullicino wanted the government to take the square back in order to restore it for public enjoyment.
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Susan Daniels
Apr 20th 2009, 23:48
As a frequent visitor to your country for the past 20 years I have seen many changes this is now one of the better changes that the Maltese officials have made. You have taken modernisation too far and to see just this little bit of Malta revert back to what it used to be like is wonderful.
I hope it continues
Susan Daniels
v.pulis
Apr 20th 2009, 19:23
How about using the money collected to pay the salary or some of it at least due to the the ex employees who last time we heard of them were battling it out with their ex boss? that would really be justice
Rene Borg
Apr 20th 2009, 18:10
@ Paul Micallef It is ridiculuos to compare Caras at Sliema with the Magic kiosk. First of all the area is much smaller, secondly the set up is very discrete compared to the monstrous green structure of the ex-Magic kiosk. Finally Caras is part of a hotel and the level of service and cannot be compared to that of the ex-Magic Kiosk. Besides that the Magic Kiosk was in a centre of a political issue way back in the 80s, as far as I know Caras was always law abiding.
Paul micallef
Apr 20th 2009, 17:28
Why dosent the Minister take back the space in front of the Caras??? Nothing has changed and nothing will change.Two weights two measures. Its not what you know but who you know..............
Joe Tabone-Adami
Apr 20th 2009, 16:51
That's one good deed the kiosk owner did, unwittingly, for his country.