During the election campaign it was stated that one of the priorities of the present government was to re-instate the Valletta bastions that had been tampered with during the last 50 years.

Now it is again being advocated to continue with their destruction so as to replace a gate with a gap at the main entrance of Valletta. If we really want to rehabilitate our magnificent and glorious city we must provide a "grand and glorious" gate such as the one that was dismantled or on the scale of Portes des Bombes or Victoria Gate. Calling it by any other name, an anomaly will always be an abnormality.

I do not dispute the capabilities of Renzo Piano, but his modern ideas do not fit in a Baroque city.

We cannot keep on making mistakes with the hope that our children will be able to correct what we do wrong.