It has been reported that Josef Formosa Gauci, the Malta Tourism Authority's chief executive officer, has said he intends to focus on the product as a priority. Soon after, Rural Affairs Minister George Pullicino claimed that he was all out for maintenance works all over the islands.

In this auspicious situation may I, once more, draw the gentlemen's attention to work which needs to be carried out at Għadira Bay.

The ladder on the concrete pier needs to be fixed firmly. As it is, it may cause injury. Another ladder is urgently needed at the other end of the pier, beneath the bus shelter opposite the Seabank Hotel. People stepping into or out of the water often require a helping hand in order not to slip on the moss that quite naturally grows and covers this part of the pier which is continuously washed by waves.

But, if the CEO wishes to focus on the full, rich product that Għadira Bay actually is, he must start see that other maintenance works are carried out urgently, throughout the season: the removal of the countless pebbles and stones which lie scattered in shallow water all along the bay.