Victor Hahn of Għadira writes:
An important infrastructure project has collapsed, with the only bid including a local company disappearing as mysteriously as it was awarded the contract in the first place.
Meanwhile, garbage keeps piling up in the Magħtab landfill. I mean, have you looked at this thing? You only need to take a look out of the window while riding along the Coast Road and see this enormous mountain of trash to realise we cannot keep dumping truckload after truckload of unprocessed garbage onto this tiny, beautiful island every single day and keep it there to rot forever.
We need an incineration plant, now. So, can we, please, drop the ever-constant cronyism and have this thing built, subito?
New Maltese culture
Michael Vella of Sliema writes:
Malta has lost the culture we used to know. We are in for a new era, the culture where everything is accepted blindly.
Overgrowth in population; rampant construction; sky-high cost of living; constructors given underhand contracts in cohesion with ministers; young couples facing impossible odds to get their first property; miserly pension increases for pensioners; millions of euros for persons of trust; fraudulent deals in connection with hospitals; lack of security in our streets; blatant government propaganda of how we are the best in Europe… Still, the Maltese public wake up for their daily chores blindly accepting this situation without realising how they are being dragged into this by their noses into a world of lies, very professionally dished out by government propaganda.
Valletta remembrance
Mark John Galea from Sliema writes:
The Valletta skyline as seen from Sliema. Photo: Shutterstock.comConsidering a previous letter I wrote (‘Celebrating Malta’, August 26) and recent news about Valletta being enshrined in the constitution, I would like to suggest something.
Perhaps it might be taken into consideration that a day or event of some kind can be organised to commemorate our beloved capital city of Valletta. March 28 could be the day, being the date when the first foundation stone of Valletta was laid in 1566.
Valletta, as a capital city, stood the test of time and was built because of the 1565 Great Siege victory by both the Knights of Malta and the Maltese.
Celebrating our beloved capital city of Valletta, a very integral part of our Maltese identity as a people, is worth considering for numerous reasons. Even given the fact that many strategic decisions were made and events held in Valletta that shaped the country’s history as we know it today.
So, as Valletta is enshrined in the constitution, we may also want to consider dedicating a day or event to our beloved capital city.
This, I feel, is worth thinking about.