Prime Minister meets young people in Paceville
€17 million were spent on 2,000 scholarships in the past five years, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this evening.
Speaking during a meeting with young people in Paceville he said:
"We put our money where our mouth is. We invested in important things such as education and a large part of EU budget we recently managed to get will go for scholarships and education."
He said a Nationalist government would dedicate €100 million of EU and local funds to industry to be used to continue developing and making factories more competitive.
There would also be funds for research initiatives especially for the Life Sciences Centre, which is being built next to the hospital, he said.
The centre would offer a "critical mass" of research and development projects which was also tied to the Ph.D students who studied at university, he said.
Dr Gonzi warned that on March 9, there was "the risk that we will have a government that will make a mistake.
"We are lucky. We know the Labour Party will make a mistake and spend €600 million on a power station, which we don't need, and that doesn't qualify for EU funds," Dr Gonzi said.
Young people at the meeting expressed disgust at the Malta Council for Arts, Sciences and Technology who booed at the Prime Minister during a leaders' debate on Wednesday.
Law student Rebecca Spiteri expressed disgust and disappointment at the students' behaviour.
"It is the Labour Party which is creating a divide and they are saying shame on you".
She said it was ironic that Mcast students made that statement and pointed out that to condemn someone who created wealth was stupid.
Freelance designer Matthew Spiteri, who studied at Mcast, said:
"They said 'shame on you' but I tell you thank you and shame on you to the students."
After the meeting, Dr Gonzi did a short walkabout in Paceville.
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Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 26th, 06:36
@Charles Taliana
My experience when a Police doctor was that since I did not join other members of the force in its criminal alliance with MLP thugs I was framed by perjured evidence and when that failed to secure my dismissal I was still compulsorily retired on pension and obstructed in my private practice by the regime for 12 solid years - not just three days. I hope that answers your comment.
Charles Taliana
Feb 25th, 06:06
J.M. Busuttil tidher li ghogbitkom ta silga !! Oqodu attenti ghax malajr terga iddub kif daghet is silga tal POSTER.
K.G. Vella
Feb 23rd, 22:37
Great, a concerted attack on students! No one can express an opinion if this is not pro-PN. What a great democracy Malta has become! Stop your moaning and be positive Dr.Gonzi and co. This is what our country needs right now!
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 24th, 17:59
All students of today are allowed to express their opinion even outrageously under this NP administration. That was not so when students were beaten up in front of Castille or in their campus in the MLP glory days when Mintoff ruled the roost.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 23rd, 20:20
It is heartbreaking that in spite of the NP creating an MCAST out of the debris of the Technical College left by Mintoff, in spite of the stipends that the NP showers on them, there are still SOME "students" and a "bob a mob" outside the college grounds that are so ungrateful and so churlish as to mount a hostile demonstration against their benefactor. Taxpayer's money thrown down the drain!
Charles Taliana
Feb 25th, 05:55
Sur Francis Saliba M.D. ma nafx kemm ghandek zmien imma tidher li int wiehed li ma tiftakarx jew ma kellekx esperjenza ta snien 60. Jien ukoll kont student ta technical u ghax darba kelli il gurnal `IL HELSIEN kont gejt sospenut ghall 3 ijiem mill iskola. U ghall agetivi li uzajt ghall l-istudenti urejt il livel li ghandek , ghalmenu ma marrux jaghmlu xeni dizguztanti kif sar 5 snien ilu mill `Mob
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 26th, 06:21
@Charles Taliana
Ghaliex jien, bhala tabib tal-pulizija, ma stajtx li ninaqghad mal Pulizija ta' Mintoff li flok izzomm l-ordni pubblika kienet komplici mal-kriminali vjolenti fi hdan l-MLP, gejt iffrejmat b'guramenti foloz u meta l-attentat ta' tkeccija falla xorta wahda kont mgieghel nirtira mis-servizz bil-fors u mfixkel milli nahdem fil-privat ghal tnax il-sena shah u mhux ghal tlett ijiem.
John Azzopoardi
Feb 23rd, 18:42
how about helping all the maltese with gas discounts not the students all the time. Look what they did you to you at MCAST Mr. Gonz.
P Debattista
Feb 23rd, 11:07
"€17m were spent on 2000 scholarships in the past 5 years."
What about the STEPS fiasco PM - granting scholarships to those most inclined to your party at the expense of those who most deserve it. How do you explain the deliberate breaking of scholarship rules by candidates just so these "chosen few" (who ironically have strong links to the PN) could get their hands on dirty scholarship money?
j brincat
Feb 23rd, 10:52
"It is the Labour Party which is creating a divide and they are saying shame on you".
Didn't he repeat 'Shame on you' over and over again only just yesterday - referring to Dr Muscat?
Or has he already forgotten?
jb
Joe Grech
Feb 23rd, 10:41
The PM, intent on tricking people into voting his arrogant, inefficient party back into power declares
that on March 9, there was "the risk that we will have a government that will make a mistake''.
Coming from somebody who ended up with a fragmented party and with a nonfunctioning parliament for about a year - with Malta suffering the consequences - his statement is the height of deceit!
mark borg
Feb 23rd, 10:34
After the meeting, Dr Gonzi did a short walkabout in Paceville.
he should have gone for a short walk around PV long time ago, before it became a hotbed for criminals under his administration
Lawrence Fenech
Feb 23rd, 06:06
Father Christmas out of season and with the taxpayers money less 500 euros per week kept apart.
jm busuttil
Feb 23rd, 15:18
I prefer 500 euros being taken than some one hiding behind a silga.
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