Reading through the article about village bars and residents’ nightmare (The Sunday Times of Malta, February 17) made me realise how insensitive to others certain people can be. Enjoying oneself is one’s right but disturbing others by your revelling is not. Others have a right to rest and to have a good night’s sleep. As far as I know, clubs and village bars can remain open between certain hours. It seems, though, that these rules are only on paper as although complaints by residents are lodged with the police, nobody seems to care. Enforcement is lacking.

To add insult to injury there are clubs and cafeterias that insist on occupying pavements with tables and chairs for their clients, while disturbing the neighbourhood in the dead of night or during siesta time, with their loud talking, laughter and sometimes music.

As long as a pavement is wide enough to cater for both pedestrians and clients there is no problem if the neighbours are not being bothered, but blocking the pavement with chairs and tables with pedestrians having to walk on the road is simply selfish.

If I am not mistaken, last year, just before the feast of Santa Maria, a particular catering outlet in Constitution Street, Mosta, took up some parking bays to create an outside catering spot for its customers. Whether the local council granted a permit for this, I don’t know.

However, the feeling among those who go around the streets of Mosta to find a parking space was that this catering outlet had snatched precious public spaces for its own gain irrespective of the scarcity of parking spaces available.

It would be interesting to know why there are a few who are more equal than others.