The Marsaxlokk local council currently composed of one Nationalist councillor and four Labour councillors recently distributed to local households a magazine entitled Marsaxlokk. The front cover was graced with a picture of the Delimara power station with a plume of black smoke coming out of it and in the corner a picture of Delimara as it once was. Invariably the inside contained attacks against the government on the Delimara power station.

Upon seeing this use of public funds for partisan purposes, one can't help but ask a number of questions to both the Labour-led council in Marsaxlokk and to the Labour Party as a whole.

Is the picture on the front cover proof that indeed the Moviment Ġdid is in reality going back to the good old days of Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici when he came and burnt tyres in order to prove a point against the building of the Delimara power station? As a resident of Marsaxlokk living in a residence with full view of the Delimara power station, can the Marsaxlokk local council kindly supply the date and time of when the picture was taken? In all my years here since the power station was built I have never witnessed such a plume of black smoke; more so on a regular basis.

Does the Labour-led Marsaxlokk council honestly believe that a picture of a plume of black smoke is the best image it can give to our village?

Doesn't it feel ashamed of itself knowing that the front cover could have well featured a picturesque scenario of our beautiful village instead of a plume of black smoke? It is indeed a shame that the council can stoop so low. Then again, after many years of a Labour-led local council one grows used to these pathetic shenanigans from Labour and its men!

On a side note, publishing pictures of activities held in 2008 in the year 2010 is merely proving just how lacking communication on the part of the local council really is!