Fire damages City Gate kiosk
A kiosk just outside City Gate, Valletta, was estensively damaged by fire last night.
The fire brigade was on the scene to put out the flames at about 1 a.m.
The fire appears to have started inside the kiosk. Foul play has been ruled out. No one was injured.
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Francis Grech
Feb 22nd, 21:45
Mr Billy Watson may be you do come to Malta regularly may be it is cheaper for you than anywhere else but if the city gate kiosks remind you of the casbah market abviously you haven't been down the east end of London belive me there you 'll defenetily feel that you are in the casbah, you can even hear casbah prayers being transmitted for every one to hear, like that place there are many more citys that were taken over by the casbah people( your very word) at least as yet we dont have people with only their eyes showing,as for obesity if you read the daily mail ther was a woman weighing 40 stones and there are a lot of them ,made in England,Bye but please keep visiting the Island we have a lot to offer.
Claire Busuttil
Feb 22nd, 21:20
This kiosk had the best prices and best customer care.
The kiosks at Putirjal are part of Malta and the Maltese pepole and not an eyesore.
Good luck to the owners!
Helenio Pace
Feb 22nd, 20:57
KEMM HAWN MIN MA JISTHIX JITKELLEM , KELLU BZONN KONTU INTOM FIS SITWAZZJONI TA DAWN IN-NIES.
Lucienne Dimech
Feb 22nd, 14:08
Hope it wont come back such eyesores are most unwelcome
James Tyrrell
Feb 22nd, 13:25
These kiosk's are not the prettiest things in Malta but at least they have an excuse given the time they have been there. But to all those complaining about how ugly they look at the entrance to Valletta just remember that your Government are building something even uglier at the entrance to Valletta. This kiosk can be put right for a handful of thousands, the other eyesore is costing you millions!
noel fabri
Feb 22nd, 12:29
As usual comments tend to be cruel. I know the owner he is a very good man. Nevertheless yes they are an eysore.
Noel Fabri
Richard Price
Feb 22nd, 11:06
The kiosks are pig-ugly 1950's throwbacks , unsightly purveyoyors of artery clogging
junk fodder. I understand that all the kiosks will soon be demolished.
Not before time.
Joseph N. Attard
Feb 22nd, 12:14
The kiosks will soon be demolished? Apparently, you do not know Malta well enough, Mr. Price. I'll believe it when I see it.
Billie Watson
Feb 22nd, 10:33
We are frequent visitors to your islands, we actually think that these old fashioned kiosks should be removed and clear the area, they really reminds us of an Arabic Suq or kasbah, and while on this subject of Fooof Glorious food, no wonder the majority of young kids in Malta are obese and the elderly suffer from Diabetes, you can't blame them for feeding themselves silly, its there right infront of them for the taken. Ah well its your country and certainly not ours.
Margaret Galea
Feb 22nd, 11:22
Regarding obesity, most of Europe are becoming obese with all these fast food, all fat and rubbish, which I sorry to say that it's not typical Maltese and neither are the kiosk . It's a pity we Maltese try to like other countries. I totally agree that the kiosk are an eyesore and should be removed. They should have never allowed them to be there in the first place. Now that we no longer have a city gate and with the design of Enzo Piano we should have something ultra modern , where we will pay millions for Piano's concultancy
Eve Axiaq
Feb 22nd, 11:40
Maybe we should introduce healthy food such as fish & chips!!!!
Franco Abela
Feb 22nd, 12:31
@ Margaret Galea
Re obesity... true but Maltese children top the list.
I also blame the fast food chains for offering free toys with fast food to children. People are becoming addicted to these restaurants because of the toys.
If we really want our kids to eat healthy this shouldn't be allowed. When we were kids we never had such fast food chains and still some of us are obese... let alone our kids that from a tender age of 3 they already want to go these food chains.
Something that really annoys me is that few years ago a popular kids' programme airing on a local TV station was sponsored by one of the fast food chains!!! So we have parents telling their kids to eat healty and their favourite TV show telling them to eat junk and they get a free toy!! Who wins?
Pippo DeMarco
Feb 22nd, 13:21
This isn't a purely Maltese problem, Billie. Junk food is rife throughout the western world.
If you're looking to blame someone, then blame the Americans. (They probably designed the ugly kiosks too.)
Carmelo Aquilina
Feb 22nd, 09:40
all the kiosks are eyesores and we Maltese give the impression that we cannot walk 30 paces without stuffing our faces ...remove them all !
Sharon Pisani
Feb 22nd, 09:34
all those pasti!! glad no one was hurt though
Matthew Saliba
Feb 22nd, 09:22
that's one less eyesore :-)
C Zammit
Feb 22nd, 09:30
Mr.Saliba, you would not say that if it was yours !!!!!!
Kevin Camilleri
Feb 22nd, 09:40
It would have been very nice if the Kiosk was yours and that was your only source of income.
S Micallef
Feb 22nd, 09:51
Well said Matt,
Some shop owners spend thousands on design and decor, yet this guy here comes to dump his ugly aluminium kiosk outside our capital city!!!
When are they going to get rid of the rest of them??? Where is MEPA??? Busy scheming with some developers probably.
C Zammit
Feb 22nd, 10:24
Mr. Micallef . I hope you are aware that another GUY is going to make your capital city look uglier with a useless building just inside the city gate spending millions !!!!
S Micallef
Feb 22nd, 10:43
@ C Zammit
I'm not too fond of the Piano designs myself. But that doesn't remove from the fact that those kiosks are ugly.
Tajjeb mela because the Piano design is not to our liking we should leave the ugly kiosks there? La kollox ikrah inkomplu inkerrhu.
X'mentalita'!
C Zammit
Feb 22nd, 11:02
@ Micallef . I agree that it was not a nice structure but as you might know these people are waiting for the kiosk to be moved to another place and so why spend so much money to refurbish !
S Micallef
Feb 22nd, 11:13
@ C Zammit - those kiosks were ugly to begin with so being moved to another place soon is NOT an excuse.
One wonders how they got there in the first place. Probably they started off as kiosks which were moved every evening but in true Maltese squatting fashion somehow became fixed over the years.
Same old story,
Matthew Saliba
Feb 22nd, 11:15
I am sure the owners are insured for loss of business so I wouldn't ruffle my feathers if I were you! At least the owners might decide to refurbish with the insurance money!
Ms Xaxa Caruana
Feb 22nd, 12:06
i@Matthew Saliba
Il kemm int helu!!!! min jaf li kieku kienet tieghek kontx tiraguna hekk.
j dough
Feb 22nd, 12:35
@smicallef.
"true Maltese squatting fashion"
veru qed tghid. mis-seba niehdu l-id.
ara dak tal-fjuri. kemm kien helu dak il-kiosk kollu ward...issa , veru ghandu xi fjuri imma mimli bil-bziezaq, affaritjiet ohra u annimali fil-gageg!!! sabih e?? mal-ghatba tal-konkatedral!
James Dimech
Feb 22nd, 09:22
I am really sorry for the owners. Maybe something positive should be made out of this negative experience. A nicer kiosk which fits the entrance to Valletta better
Victor Pulis
Feb 22nd, 09:47
Perhaps we can get Renzo to design it!
Ms Xaxa Caruana
Feb 22nd, 08:32
Saw it this morning, what a pity.