Ambulances barred from entering Gozo square where minister’s family owns café

Paramedics and nurses responding to emergencies in Pjazza San Ġorġ, Gozo, are being ordered to leave their ambulances outside Piazza San Ġorġ and proceed to patients on foot, The Shift has learned.

The informal directive, reportedly issued to avoid disrupting local businesses, applies even in critical cases. A recent incident saw an ambulance crew barred from entering the square as they attempted to assist a man suffering a stroke.

Emergency workers said the policy is designed to shield business owners who have taken over the square with unauthorised tables, chairs, and enclosures, effectively blocking vehicular access to the area.

Among those benefiting are reportedly well-connected café operators, including the family of Health Minister Jo Etienne Abela.

The minister’s parents own a premises now trading as Manouche, leased to a business family with other interests in the same area, known among Gozitans as ‘Ta’ Nisju’.

Typical behaviour from these so called Ministers (i.e. crooks, thieves and criminals). Economy before anything else, even when people’s lives are at stake. Ironic coming from the Health Minister 😂