What a ridiculous site to build a supermarket - in front of the newly-built St Benedict College at Kirkop. This college has served as fodder for propaganda on glossy mailshots. Leaving the college, the students used to find tranquillity offered by unspoilt natural spreads of tilled fields.

With a stroke of the pen that is to change forever. Whoever was granted a permit by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority must be honoured. This supposedly green area has witnessed overnight soil excavation, merciless and unprofessional uprooting of trees, indeed a lesson in environmental studies for the college students.

Can Mepa stoop lower than this? No wonder it has lost all credibility. The sooner it is dismantled and restructured properly to be a true safeguard for development which does not harm the environment, the better. The sooner we do away with ministerial and political appointees, the better for the country.