The shadow minister for education, Clyde Puli, has slammed the government after the opening of a new primary school in Qawra was delayed by another year.

"From a new school every year under the Nationalist government, we have ended up with a new school being postponed every year," Mr Puli said. 

The state of affairs showed that rather than giving priority to investment in the children's future, the current government was only interested in grabbing what it could at the present. 

Mr Puli recalled how three years ago, the government announced that it would build a new primary school to cater for Qawra's growing population. The completion date was to have been 2017, but the project was delayed last year, and again this year.  

The least that the people expected was that the current government would continue to deliver as the former government had done, with new schools in Tal-Ħandaq in Qormi, Verdala Cospicua, Mosta, Pembroke, Naxxar, St Benedict College in Kirkop and the new school in Gozo along with the launch of the new Mcast campus project and the expansion of the university, Mr Puli said.