GRTU demands compensation for Valletta shop owners
Valletta shop owners should be compensated for the loss of business caused by infrastructural works in the capital city and loss of parking spaces, the Malta Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprises – GRTU said.
It also called for the immediate suspension of the controlled vehicle access (CVA) system, arguing that service providers who found it almost impossible to park should not pay the hefty charges.
Sections of South Street, Melita Street and others were closed for paving works while Freedom Square was closed due to the City Gate project. The GRTU said it supported the paving project but there was a reasonable way of doing things.
"Despite all the rules and regulations that prohibit construction works in peak tourism months, dust and construction equipment is all over the place," the GRTU said.
It said not only had Parliament usurped all the parking spaces in the most important part of Valletta but parking also vanished from most streets that serviced the commercial sector and the city had become one big construction site.
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c camilleri
Oct 23rd 2010, 11:01
People are not stupid any longer. They know they can buy much cheaper products from abroad, so why bother buying lower quality, non guaranteed products from Malta? alternatively the people wait for the Sales to buy nowadays too.
I sincerely wish that GRTU stops pushing for government compensation from our taxes to finance their members' incompetence. Business means also risk! So when it turns bad, the Maltese taxes have to make up for it? give us a break....
And BTW, these shop owners shall definitely benefit much more than others once these construction works are ready. People would visit Valletta more often then. So what will the shop owners and GRTU do then? refund the compensation with interest? or keep it to themselves and moan that they never had it so bad?
C. Farrugia
Jul 14th 2010, 10:59
The problem with the lack of business of the shops in Valletta is not parking but the economic situation coupled with the enormous expansion of shopping malls all over Malta. The customers of the recently opening shopping Mall in Tigne came from somewhere. Yes they partially came from the Valletta, Hamrun, Sliema shops. Something has to give. TOO MANY SHOPS