I feel I should congratulate St Julian’s council for acting decisively to relieve its residents from the serious hazards and inconveniences that pigeons were inflicting on them and on their premises.

Many have since said that this public culling was quite legal considering these pigeons carry diseases that can be easily transmitted to humans while their excrement can be a source of contamination.

What recently occurred at St Julian’s in this regard has spurred me to urge the Victoria council to follow suit. The residents of certain areas in our city, particularly those of us in the Vajringa Street and St Francis Square area, are day in day out infested with the droppings and excrement of pigeons that have been rightly labelled “flying rats”.

Just two weeks ago, we got so fed up cleaning this mess that we asked the local council to intervene. Obviously, a couple of days later history repeated itself as the solution lies in the culling of these pigeons as has been rightly done in St Julian’s.

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