Gozo gets top marks
Gozo is a safer place to drive, has more cows than pigs and more successful students sitting for the Junior Lyceum exams, according to official statistics.
Gozo's cattle population is higher than that of Malta but there are fewer pigs. In 2007, there were 292 pigs per 1,000 in Malta, compared to Gozo's 73, according to the latest figures by the National Statistics Office.
Gozitan schoolchildren also got higher marks in their Junior Lyceum exams and more Gozitans are graduating from the University.
It also seems to be a safer place, with fewer cars stolen, fewer traffic accidents, casualties and fatalities and crimes.
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Franco Farrugia
Nov 25th 2009, 07:58
@ D Bonello: I wouldn't be so fast in saying that. It wouldn't be good news for the many landlords and landladies of Gozo farmhouses, hotels, restaurants and flats!!! Gozo would not be Gozo without the money coming from Maltese people's pockets. By the way, two of the worst crimes of recent history in Gozo took place at the hands of Gozitans themselves and their 'omerta''! Least said, sir/madame, soonest mended!!!
@ Lennie D Lion: The Gozitans more trustworthy than the Maltese? I wonder where you got THAT from: perhaps you can kindly elucidate.
I simply cannot understand why people are so dumb when it comes to certain assertions. The difference in noise, between Malta and Gozo is that which is equal to any other mainland and region! Malta is the mainland and Gozo is a region, for which it should be thankful for all the benefits it gets from the mainland!
D.Bonello
Nov 24th 2009, 19:44
The only crime we get in Gozo is commited by maltese....Please stay on noisy Malta.
S. Gauchi
Nov 24th 2009, 19:43
Yes true Edward Sant @ we have more flies in Gozo, the reason being is because none of these flies want to fly about in Malta, due to high volume of smoke from your buses, besides our Gozitan flies don't bite, at least not where i live, they only bite the visitors from Malta, you see they can tell the difference between a Gozitan and a Maltese (LOL)!
Edward Sant
Nov 24th 2009, 18:20
More flies too!
J Mizzi
Nov 24th 2009, 14:42
I don't understand how a news item can compare one island with another. If we should really nitpick, I'd suggest to the likes of Jane Andreas to go live on Comino, where no traffic accidents have ever been reported and the crime rate is near to zero.
Or, on second thoughts, to be hundred per cent sure, I recommend Filfla ...
M.Buttigieg
Nov 24th 2009, 14:00
I disagree Phil Press as a Gozitan i say the English type, i have no qualms with the fantastic Welsh or Irish tourists, its the bl**dy pommies that get up my nose with their whinging and they all seem to follow like sheep Bee--eeee----eeek!
Lennie D Lion
Nov 24th 2009, 13:44
The last sentence of the article above is very true, less crime and the Gozitans are trust worthy, more then i can say for the Maltese, this i think is the main reason why most are dreading in a few years ahead yet to come when Gozo will be over run by the Maltese. Nb:- We are neither Maltese of Gozitans, but i can safely say that i would rather go back home then live in Noisy stressful Malta , and i hear this from the horses mouth themselves. GOZO IS PEACE AND TRANQUILITY - DON'T SPOIL IT WITH EMPTY PROPERTIES AND BAD DRIVING HABITS. That to me is a worse sin then Adulty or stealing from the poor.
Phil Press
Nov 24th 2009, 13:37
@. N. Borg.
I think you meant to say the Welsh kind. lol.
Jane Andreas
Nov 24th 2009, 13:34
We are English and live in Gozo, i can endorse this staement above 100%, i wouldn't exactly say Safe> Safe> but certainly much Safer then Malta. Malta is a nightmare to drive, they all seem to be in a hurry maybe the Maltese suffer from :Diarrhea: who knows the way they try to overtake any which way they can! if i were the examiner i would fail at least 85% of them, and if they were taken the driving test back home, i hate to say, i think somehow you know...................Yes?
N. Borg
Nov 24th 2009, 11:35
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Now if they reported that there were more sheep, that's a different story. For all you know it might attract some tourists...you know, the Irish kind :)
Danika Vella
Nov 24th 2009, 10:26
Is it just me, or why is the fact that there are more cows than pigs significant? :)