Anna Busuttil, Swieqi
No fun for residents
According to George Schembri, the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association’s chief executive officer, the so-called students are just young people having fun.
I would like to invite him to spend a week in our street, Triq is-Sidra. He would love being woken up at 3 or 4 a.m. by these students (hooligans), running after each other screaming. Others think they’re on stage and sing at the top of their voices.
In the morning the street is littered with half-empty plastic and glass bottles and all sorts of other rubbish, our gardens are vandalised and car-ports reek of urine. I can assure him that he would fall about laughing.
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marika mifsud
Aug 23rd 2010, 17:14
Remember it's not only residents who have to suffer the rowdy behaviour - regular tourists suffer too.
Joseph Calleja
Aug 23rd 2010, 17:39
Then it must be stopped. Nobody has to put up with such misbehavior. Their mommy and daddy are sitting home very peacefully while their kids are having fun, disturbing other peoples peace. Not all foreign students are bad, it's the few that make it bad for everybody else.These kids go to school for 2 or 3 hours a day, the rest is idle time, party time etc. As they say, " idle hands are the tool of the devil ." Where is Malta heading, our leaders should take responsibility.
Joseph Calleja
Aug 23rd 2010, 16:30
After all these open complaints, I think the citizens of Swieqi and St Julans should unite and file a petition with the responsible department and ask for more policemen to be put on the beat around these troubled places. Nobody should be allowed to disturb the peace and cause damage to other peoples property, whether it be foreign students or not. It seems that this whole problem is getting out of hand and somebody has to stop it, quick. As Ms Busuttil put it, we cannot let these hooligans take over, maybe they already have. We need more police presence in these areas so the problem will be taken care of, and fast. Maybe these students bring in a lot of money but they are also bringing with them a lot of grief. If we think the money out ways the grief then we have to put up with this crap and keep quiet. It is for the residents of these two cities to decide what is best. Make it known to the tourist board what is going on in your towns. And tell Mr Schembri that these students are having fun at your expense.
GiovDeMartino@ Franco Farrugia
Aug 23rd 2010, 15:55
Qed tkejjel lil kulhadd b'xibrek bahbuh. Kulhadd imdejjaq! U mela! Imbaghad jekk idejqek horn.............allura.....
anthony borg
Aug 23rd 2010, 15:52
In this ruined Summer Season two things stand out as a priority for the authorities to tackle:
the nuisances of foreign students (rightly labeled "hooligans") in the Swieqi area and the inhuman hours of disco music coming from ta' Qali late at night, right up to early morning, disturbing the peace of the surrounding villages. Enough is enough
vince cachia
Aug 23rd 2010, 15:37
Franco Farrugia is only annoyed by the sound or street hawkers for which people got used to for these last 10000 years!! These hawkers are never out at night!! During the day all sounds are tollerated even a jack hammer! But at night even a snake hissing annoys sleeping people. I think it is better that YOU go and take a nap!!
Franco Farrugia
Aug 24th 2010, 18:37
Your comment shows exactly the kind of Maltese mentality that we have on these islands and which keeps us back from progress! Very civilised of you, sir. Very civilised. Well done. Now I will go for my nap. Here's another guy trying to make out that he is speaking on behalf of the whole population. Well, certainly not mine!
Tony Benjamin
Aug 23rd 2010, 14:08
Why dont you swop houses with this Bright Spark George Schembri is it, he would say that ofcourse he is trying to sell a product..tourisim and want to keep his job naturally. Think twice sunshine even i as a tourist in your country am bloody disgusted, i tell you what Pal, you will not be see us in your country for Adam for quite sometime. We came back to relax and returning back with a Migraine.
Larrie Falzon
Aug 23rd 2010, 20:45
Calm Down -calm down my friend you nearly had us in tears. hAMRUN
GiovDeMartino
Aug 23rd 2010, 11:27
La barranin ma jimpurtax. Ara kieku allaharesqatt kienu Maltin tghidx kemm jitfaccaw professuri bl-antipatija kollha taghhom jiddikjaraw li ONLY IN MALTA> Imma dawn bin-nemex.
Franco Farrugia
Aug 23rd 2010, 13:49
Mhux veru li qed tghid! M'intix qed tghid il-verita'. Fejn qedha l-paci u l-mistrieh fit-toroq taghna? Id-daqq tal-hornijiet tal-vannijiet, tat-trakkijiet, ta' kull min irid ibiegh fit-toroq tagha? Qas tista' thalli tieqa miftuha? Ghaliex titkellem hekk? Mela ma tarax li mhux veru li qieghed tghid? Anzi, il-kuntrarju: sirna poplu mdejjaq u allura qed nitfghu id-dwejjaq fuq il-barrani! Dik hi l-istorja kollha. Int issa oqghod bi kwietek iccelebra il-festa li daqt gejja meta fil-fatt, ahna ghadna marbutin bl-ideja tal-kolonjalizmu, nemmnu li kulhadd ghandu jghinna fl-ezistenza taghna imma ma rridu nhallsu xejn lura. Mur, kompli orqod.
Samantha Grima
Aug 23rd 2010, 19:14
Franco Farrugia jidher li ghandek interess sewwa f'dawn l- studenti.
Franco Farrugia
Aug 24th 2010, 01:51
@ Samantha Grima: Ms Grima, diga ghamilt din l-insinwazzzjoni darbtejn. Tista' tkompli tinsinwa u tipprova thammigni u tiddiskreditani kemm trid u kemm joghgbok ghax la ma nafekx, mhux se nirrispondik.
@ Giov. DeMartino: Jien imdejjaq? Jien bhalissa ghaddej hajja ta' Papa! Imma li kieku int ghandek f'idejk il-polz ta' hutek il-Maltin, u taqra dak kollu li hemm x'jinqara, u minghajr ma tilbes in-nuccali kulurit li ghandek, kieku tigi biex taqbel mieghi! U toqghodx titkessah fl-eta tieghek, 'bahbuh'.