It’s high time that the ‘E’ is dropped from Mepa’s title. After condoning monstrosities such as the slum-like Tigné project, the carbuncle of a Parliament building, the creation of inland Buġibbas in Attard and similar villages, the permits to uproot decades-old trees in the name of progress and many other such pitiful decisions, keeping the ‘E ‘in the Malta Environment and Planning Authority adds insult to injury.

Unfortunately, when one thinks of the Maltese environment in its entirety and what is happening to it, one wonders what type of environmentalists, if any, inhabit the Mepa buildings in Floriana.