In the Times of Malta (February 25) there was the news about the petition for Manoel Island to be turned into a wooded park, thus providing a badly needed recreational zone for all categories and the community at large. I have been thinking of this for a long time.
A visit I made to Meinau Island in Germany some years ago urged me to write this letter to back the petition by Jamie Matthew Mercieca.
Where can I sign it? Meinau Island is a large park with very little buildings. We really enjoyed our visit and we thought how nice it would be if we had something like it in Malta. If such a big country as Germany left this island as a pleasure ground, how much more is it needed here, a country so densely populated?
It’s useless to promote healthy lifestyles, if we take up more and more land for construction. At the rate Malta is going, we will have to go abroad to enjoy an open space.
Not all can afford to go abroad and what about those who cannot travel because of infirmity or old age? I don’t know what kind of better life is Malta offering us.