Land owners paid for expropriated properties - 30 years on

France Scicluna

Feb 28th, 13:24

I know of one person who took the matter to Court many years ago and was 'compensated' but not by very much. I imagine there are others too. If their land has not been built on yet, I think they should now be allowed to repay the amount of compensation they received, and in return be given their land back. Justice can then be seen to be done.
One further point. Now that people who benefited from free land are able to borrow money against it, there may be an argument for the government to grant them a loan against the property equal to the compensation they are now paying the previous owners. To be fair, they should not charge any interest, but at least the rest of the population will not have to pick up the cost of the present amounts being paid out in compensation.

Lino Busuttil

Jul 20th 2011, 00:42

10,000 euros for each plot after 30years!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LM4000, 30 years ago would have been fine but today what will one do with 10,000 in property? I think heirs and owners if still alive should sue the government in European courts not thank him. What low self esteem the Maltese citizen has become with these two major Parties playing with poeples lives. However those living in these houses must have their contracts regularised as they had nothing to do with the unjust exproriation of a government.

J. Schembri

Jul 19th 2011, 20:09

Min jaf kemm mietu nies b’attakk f’qalbhom meta ittehditilhom l-art.

Vincent Scerri

Jul 19th 2011, 17:32

Qed tidhlu f'hafna argumenti ghalxejn. Kuhadd ghandu l-istil tieghu kif jiffaccja sitwazzjoni. Hawn min jehodha bil-kajman u jdum is-snin sakemm jiddeciedi u hawn min ixammar il-kmien u dak li ghandu jsir jaghmlu.
Araw ftit kemm ilu Jason Azzopardi fil hatra ta' Segretarju Parlamentari u kemm dam biex qabad il-barri minn qrunu.
Dak huwa l-argument!

Mr Joe Borg

Jul 19th 2011, 17:07

Tal-biki, issir xi haga pozittiva u n-ngergru.

s. caruana

Jul 19th 2011, 16:09

IL-gvern ghalkemm tard se jhallas lil minn itehditlu art u hekk ghandu jkun.... PERO meta l gvern se jiehu lura minn ghand dawk li serqu art tal-poplu???? bhal nighdu ahna fl-Armier,l-Gnejna, l-Marfa,I-bajja ta' San Tumas etc etc.... META??

Mario Pisani

Jul 19th 2011, 15:56

Fl-ahhar qed naraw il-gustizzja socjali ssir! Dan huwa l-Gvern b'kuxjenza...mela l-Gvern Socjalista tat-tmeninijiet li hataf f'idejh din l-art kollha minghand sidien privati minghajr ma tahom kumpens xieraq!

Dan mhux kollox - ghax mhux talli ma thallsux, talli issa li thallsu, swew lilna it-taxpayers hafna iktar milli kemm kienu jiswuna dak iz-zmien.

Dak ghandkom taraw ... mela c-cucati l-ohrajn! Dan huwa Gvern serju, proattiv u b'ruh socjali!

Mr Joe Morana

Jul 19th 2011, 15:46

Justice delayed, justice denied.

While these citizens were denied what is theirs by right bu successive governments, the same succesive government administrations have allowed for decades, other hundreds of families occupy and built on public land without approriate tile and the necessary permits e.g Armier boat houses etc...
So much for social justice and rule of law. Shame !! Dik kuxjenxa...!!!

Mr A Cardona

Jul 19th 2011, 15:45

Indeed there are people who are wasting their talents in politics.... they should book a trip to New York and start working as stand up comedians there.

Christina Pace

Jul 19th 2011, 15:45

When I read some of these comments I realize why I love myself to bits for not sounding Maltese when I open my mouth. All you do when someone does something good and gets it right is still GRUMBLE, CRITICIZE AND DEMORALIZE.

Do you or don't you realize that weren't it for this man this would not in a million years have happened. In the few years this man has been responsable for lands he has evicting illegal occupants of public land in several sites, demolished illegal buildings on public land all over the island and is still working towards achieving the uniformity that our country should have always had. And this is one such step forward and all you can do is say "about fuckin time"? Grow up and say Thank You to Mr Azzoppardi cause he is burdened with fixing what PL allowed to go on in the past and this may be the best thing if not the only concrete thing the PN has done amongst the very few things they pulled off so far.

Above all thank him for doing this despite being hated for it, you ungrateful bunch. You make me sick.

Mr twanny borg

Jul 19th 2011, 15:43

mintoff ha art lin-nies u ta' ftit soldi jew xejn. ara l-art tieghu ma gietx mehuda b'xejn! ha eluf u eluf kbar. issa tal-pl qed igergru li dawn in-nies hadu kumpens xieraq. ahjar tard milli qatt. gergru ma' mlp mhux mall-pn. prosit jason.

Simon Azzopardi

Jul 19th 2011, 14:40

This is ridiculous. To boast about this is disgusting. Here we are seeing ridiculous flaws in our political and legal situation. This is clearly a breach of human rights to take 30 years to compensate. Rather than complaining about a political party, we need to criticize the legal system here. How many Maltese citizens are in court over land that has been expropriated?

Such compensation is a legal requirement, and not a gesture of a caring political party. Also, such a compensation legally needs to be affected within a reasonable time-frame.

To sum up the legal system in Malta in word - DEFERITA...

Ms D Galea

Jul 19th 2011, 14:33

Dear Dr Azzopardi,
can you please tell the people in charge of making these payments to accelerate the tempo with which such payments are processed.
There are plenty of people whose land was expropriated who are still waiting to get their payments inspite of having submitted all the required paperwork several months ago.
Thank you.

Mr Hans Wolf

Jul 19th 2011, 14:32

And what about the land owners that had their land appropriated and were paid a fraction of its value? Many of them are too old and tired to fight the government anymore and it is they and their children that suffer while those that squat on their land paid peanuts for it.

Mr Ernest Vella

Jul 19th 2011, 14:30

Gvern Progressiv li mhux jipprietka fuq il-gustizzja u d-dritt tax-xoghol imma li jwettaq dak li jghid bil-fatti

Mr A. Mizzi

Jul 19th 2011, 14:30

Any chance of car owners getting refunded with the VAT paid on registration tax since Malta joined the EU in 2004instead of playing for time and trying to find loopholes so that it would not need to reimburse Maltese motorists ?

Can't the EU Commissioner for Consumers Mr. John Dalli take up our case?


http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090224/local/vat-paid-on-car-registration-tax-has-to-be-reimbursed-european-commission.246314

Mr Joe Borg

Jul 19th 2011, 14:21

Tal-biki kief ghad hawn min jahseb li Malta gawdit taht Mintof. Mela ghax gawdew erba min-nies iffisser li Malta kollha gawdiet. Jidrilkom li gvern li jiehu l-artijiet ta persuna u jaghtihom li haddiehor bil forza, huwa gvern responsabli. Ghandkom iddeja kemm insterqu artijiet hu inataw b'xejn lin-nies, biex jirbah l-elezjoni.

Allahares ghadna bil mentalita tar-Robin Hood!

Mr Vincent Cassar

Jul 19th 2011, 13:39

Jason, ma tantx hemm biex tiftahar...Jekk Mintoff cahhad dawn l-artijiet ghal hames snin, il-PN cahhadhom ghal 25 sena! Cheap publicity....enjoy your extra 500 euros a week!

Richard Zammit

Jul 19th 2011, 13:30

I hope your goverment pays us now as he took 47 tumoli from us and we still haveny got paid yet after 22 years . |we're suffereing under your goverment and i'm sure that there are alot more to say about your goverment , il kuxjenza nahseb li ma jafx fejn toqghod , prova kbira huwa il kontijiet tad dawl . l-gholi tal hajja It taxxa tar registrazzjoni tal karozzi ta barra u id divorzju , l-ewwwl prova jinheba bir referrundum imbaghad ma laqax l-ghajta tal poplu u ivvota kontra , KUXJENZA KBIRA GHANDU

Mr Lawrence Fenech

Jul 19th 2011, 13:25

@Scerri.

Int f'sensik. Wara 30 sena u 25 sena ta Gvern ta' GonziPN.

Paul Vella

Jul 19th 2011, 13:14

A word of appreciation to the Hon. Jason Azzopardi for settling this issue for many families from various villages who were deprived or their full rights as owners of their homes due the lack of payment due to the land owners. In my case the only document giving us any right was a piece of paper called "konvenju" issued by the Housing Authority. After 29 years, we are now signing a full contract with the same Authority finally giving us full title on our property. Thanks once again. Gudja - Ta' Xlejli.

Simon Scerri

Jul 19th 2011, 12:56

Prova ta Gvern li ghandu Kuxjenza mal-Poplu!!! Poplu li bghata taht Mintoff!!!

Mr Joseph Apap

Jul 19th 2011, 12:50

At long last Justice is done with every one
Why did the government of that time did not settle with the land owners straight away,
Why had this expropriation take 30 years to be settled.

And millions were said to have been left in the Governments coffers way back to 1987