Letters
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Dangerous pavement
The part of St George’s Street in St Paul’s Bay (from HSBC up to Go) was successfully asphalted during the middle of summer last year, after so many years of neglect. Thanks are due to mayor Mario Salerno and his fellow councillors for carrying out...
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Beware of the monti
After seeing a feature about the monti on TVAM I decided, out of curiosity, to walk down and take a look. All the football shirts that were shown on the video clip turned out to be fakes. I went a step further and against my principles bought items...
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Cost of living increase
Five months have gone into the year, nearly three months have passed since the last election, and we are still waiting for the cost of living increase promised in the last budget. Can anyone please inform us when we are going to receive this money?...
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Excellent airport service
I am writing on behalf of our group of nearly 90 members that recently travelled to the Holy Land. We would like to express our thanks to Air Malta and Malta International Airport staff members for their excellent and caring service, especially with...
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Maltese literature
Now that Valletta has been officially recognised as the 2018 European Capital of Culture and that a new team has been appointed to prepare for it, I would like to renew my appeal that Maltese literature should definitely be included. I have...
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Budget deficit
During the election campaign, the Labour Party stressed it was basing its promises and electoral programme on EU projections regarding the deficit and debt, and not the Nationalist government’s. However, Malta now has a budget with a projected...
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No help from the EU
So the cat is finally out of the European bag. We have been told that we are on our own when it comes to resettling the irregular immigrants who are arriving on our shores (May 23). Surely the Government cannot remain complacent and docile in the...
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Parking for the disabled
Could the transport authorities and other local councils in Malta and Gozo providing more reserved parking spaces for those holding a blue card? Many times, these spaces are occupied by vehicles which do not hold the special blue police card, are...
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Lottery prizes inequality
I refer to the letter Compulsive Gambling (May 22). I am sure that the public is aware that Maltco was granted a new exclusive 10-year contract by the previous government. I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with this monopoly. As soon as...
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Pornography in education
I was surprised at Helena Dalli’s remarks on pornography in the article Who Should Take The Lead In Sex Education?, namely where she said she was not against restricting minors’ access to internet pornography. Life nowadays is already tough enough...
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Creation of a Social Europe
Europe is passing through very trying times and this is why, in my maiden speech in the European Parliament, I stressed that the creation of a social Europe is the only way out of this situation. It is in this area that I pledged to focus my...
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Damage to new waterfront
On a beautiful Sunday morning a friend and I decided to walk along the newly paved Senglea waterfront, launched with great publicity earlier this year. We could not believe the wanton damage caused to the new pavement by cars, black rubber marks and...
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Objective One status
Here is an extract from a recent press release issued by the European Parliament on the subject of the shortfalls in the proposed EU budget 2014-2020: “... Malta managing to secure up to €1,128m in EU funds for the seven-year period, which was...
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Getting it right
Olga Pitcairn (Right to Life, May 25) persists in her attempt to ascribe the definition of a living human being to faith-based beliefs. However much it may amuse her to contemplate the varying and conflicting beliefs of different faiths, it remains...
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PN dynasty
Once both the newly-elected deputy leaders of the PN, Beppe Fenech Adami and Mario de Marco, are the sons of a former PN leader, Eddie Fenech Adami, and a former PN deputy leader, the late Guido de Marco, would it not be appropriate to refer to the...
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Issue of care orders
Reference is made to Anna Mallia’s letter Care Orders As Last Resort (May 20). The Foundation for Social Welfare fully concurs with Mallia’s statement that care orders must only be resorted to when, notwithstanding the skills that are provided, the...
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Active ageing?
“You are old, Father William, the young man said. And your hair has become very white ” (Lewis Carroll). Yet, never attempt Father William’s antics: head stands, back-somersaults; arguments with wife or partner sive concubine. Relationships with the...
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German Ambassador’s eye-opener (1)
The outgoing German Ambassador, if for no other reason, will be remembered for his impertinent lecturing to the Maltese public on hunting. His last attempt to discredit Maltese hunters as a different breed is a whole eulogy on the difficulties to...
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German Ambassador’s eye-opener (2)
May I congratulate the German Ambassador, Hubert Ziegler, for his excellent article of May 27 on Hunting In Germany. It should be required reading for the new Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights and, most of all, for...
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Inadequate appreciation
We have just returned from Malta where we attended the funeral of the late Edwin Borg Costanzi. We are saddened that there has been so little public appreciation of his work. As members of the University in the late 1960s and 1970s, we appreciated...
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