2012 – A year to remember (Part 1)

Maria Borg

Dec 29th 2012, 16:16

well done

Alex Coppola

Dec 28th 2012, 18:51

@ Lucienne
Every year has its good and bad events and rest assured next year won't be anything different.
Accidents will continue to occur, popular figures will pass away but we shall definitely have some positive moments in the world, our country as a whole as well as within our families. That is life after all.

Alex Coppola

Dec 28th 2012, 19:18

How???

E Gauci

Dec 28th 2012, 14:07

what about the deficit?

Jason Zammit

Dec 28th 2012, 14:18

Great Comment ....... Agreed 300%

Mary Rose Grech

Dec 28th 2012, 14:26

yes labour can and will do better

Pablo Mallia

Dec 28th 2012, 14:45

Dear Mary Rose
can you mention one subject or item where labour can do better? One please only one? Not even Electricity bills are yet being discussed within the party as Anglu would have not confused on how this would be done. Maybe PL will introduce the sewer discharge fee to compensate for the reduction in E&W bills! This would be a case where robbing Peter (the poor) to pay Paul (the rich)

S Portelli

Dec 28th 2012, 16:27

Mr Gauci. The deficit is still under 3% and around 70% of GDP and this was acknowledged by credit rating agencies. Yes offcourse labour can do better, they can follow Cyprus and lead us to Junk Status.

HENRY FENECH AZZOPARDI

Dec 28th 2012, 17:13

@ E. Gauci
Assuming that you r not politically biased I explain the deficit. Malta was accepted in the EU under Objective 1 and qualified for more than 850 million funds. These can be used if the government forks out a 25% share in the capital expenditure. Look around you and you may see the change which comes at a cost, hence the deficit. We are experiencing fast track projects which yields

Alex Coppola

Dec 28th 2012, 18:46

Well said.

Wally Vella-Zarb

Dec 29th 2012, 12:16

@ Henry Fenech Azzopardi

"We are experiencing fast track projects which yields". Like having sales outlets forming part of the new parliament building? Or a city gate with no gate? Or a roofless theatre? Or a smart ghost town? (I sincerely hope that you are not going to link the record €3.3 million that were raised during L-Istrina to the use of a Smart City building).

vincent Lia

Dec 29th 2012, 21:30

The government would have been a fool if it did not borrow to build schools roads factories etc when at least half the expenses came from EU. All the debt is invested for the future. Smart City is the jewel in the crown for future employment. Yet all the debt is only about 0.72 of GDP, money is borrowed from Maltese and interest paid to Maltese. PL stop scaremongering about the debt.

Joe M Borg

Dec 30th 2012, 11:37

Yes Vella Zarb. You forgot the 8,000 women gainfully employed. You forgot Lufthansa Technic, SR electronics, Medavia, Foster Clarke, Daniel's, The Point, and many others. Stop seeing red.
MR Grech. The best PL has done recently, was to BETRAY their OWN deputy, JUST to copy PN in having an MEP as deputy. Joseph's bright suggestion to follo Cyprus, luckily for us, was discarded by BRIGHTER PN.