That black dust again

About 15 years ago, when I was mayor of Tarxien, a young lady from the university laboratory app-roached the local council with a request to analyse the black dust afflicting Tarxien and surrounding localities.

She asked to place containers in different locations in Tarxien to obtain samples of this black dust and to discover its source.

On various occasions other local councils complained about this inconvenience and expressed their concern about the effects of this dust. We are still suffering from it especially in the past month, when the quantity of black dust has increased. One wonders how much of it we are inhaling. So much for the campaign for a clean and healthy environment.

Indeed one has the right to ask whether this black dust is affecting our health and our environment?

I hope that this time I will have answers and concrete action is taken to eliminate this black dust for good.