Please allow me to show my support for the article entitled Facing Up To A Problem by Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (February 23).
The only part to which I disagree is that describing the countries north of us as our brethren. Brethren my foot! This equally applies to those south of us.
If we don't act very fast, we risk losing all that we have so painstakingly built over decades, overnight. It sounds like the proverbial saying, "watching Rome burn" - only in our case, once it starts, it will materialise much quicker!