tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post809251125467420655..comments2023-03-21T08:57:02.168+01:00Comments on Fl-interess t'Għawdex: The Gozo feudal systemVictor Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03369898033436008492noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-16691448021150380062008-08-03T15:33:00.000+02:002008-08-03T15:33:00.000+02:00As usual....any removal of any illegal building or...As usual....any removal of any illegal building or any other law enforcement, depends on WHO is the owner or responsable. <BR/><BR/>Next to my house, a site is being built, it has 2 facades on 2 streets. As far as I know, the law tells us to put a wall of at least 8 running rows. Here there are only 4 rows built from one street and 6 from the other. <BR/><BR/>I phoned MEPA approx 2 months ago and was told that the owner was contacted, yet nothing has been done. I phoned the police and again MEPA (no answer) <BR/><BR/>I too often see children playing by the wall, looking over to see the level dug. They innocently try to push bricks over and they also pretent to tip over each other from the legs while the other is looking down. These sites are truly horifying. <BR/><BR/>As usual actions are only taken when too late. Well.... my door wount be open for questions or Xarabank if any accident should happen....I think I have done my part. Respect the children please.<BR/><BR/><BR/>My conclusion is IT DEPENDS WHO YOU ARE DEAR.......NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO ON THIS SWEET LITTLE ISLAND OF BLOOD SUCKERS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-6137526790386676702008-08-03T15:31:00.000+02:002008-08-03T15:31:00.000+02:00I keep on asking myself what on earth attracts tou...I keep on asking myself what on earth attracts tourists to visit this jungle of concrete land? The more 'development' is permitted the less remains of natural beauty areas. <BR/><BR/>There will come a time when those who chose to come over here for a week or two will understand that some over here in their money greed euphoria have managed to kill the last remaining of natural beauty spots. <BR/><BR/>It would be too late to turn back the clock and many of us would have to contend with the guilt of having sat impassively and watched the ruin take place. But Mepa is reformed, or so we hear the oracles of the regime dictate. Long live gonzipn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-42817914044214906792008-08-03T15:30:00.000+02:002008-08-03T15:30:00.000+02:00I believe that the Ministry of Gozo and San Lawren...I believe that the Ministry of Gozo and San Lawrenz local Council should work together and be at the lead of enforcing seriously the demolition on the concrete construction and the preservation of the natural beauty (and not thinking of how to preserve the votes) not only of Dwejra but of the whole island of Gozo, we have already lost most of the natural beauty of Malta. <BR/><BR/>Those who really love to visit Gozo would like to admire the natural beauty of the island.<BR/><BR/>TAKE ACTION IMMEDIALTELY.<BR/><BR/>MEPA PUT YOUR FEET DOWN AND TAKE ACTION.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-67722546985346815352008-08-03T15:29:00.000+02:002008-08-03T15:29:00.000+02:00The continuing existence of the monstrosity must s...The continuing existence of the monstrosity must surely be down to the lack of clarity and joined up thinking within the framework of the law. It is no easier in Malta than anywhere else. The law should state which bodies have the powers to enter private properties and under what circumstances. <BR/><BR/>E.g. a couple may have an argument, which is private, but if one harms the other it becomes a crime scene and the Police have a right to be there.<BR/><BR/>The Local Councils should have a mandatory role in all planning matters. That role should extend to monitoring the construction. Their final sanction would be the right to enter the property to rectify any anomalies with what had been agreed. The costs incurred to be borne by the owner of the property.<BR/><BR/>By ignoring the democratic presence of the Councils in planning you get situation where nobody can be seen to be blameworthy or suffer at the hands of the citizens for their misdeeds.<BR/>I was glad to see another corespondent naming names! Great.<BR/><BR/>Clearer laws, and more democracy will take time but an early start would send the right message.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-47772164778823241702008-07-29T02:06:00.000+02:002008-07-29T02:06:00.000+02:00WE DON"T NEED FOR ANOTHER DUMPING SITE,NEAR THE SE...WE DON"T NEED FOR ANOTHER DUMPING SITE,NEAR THE SEA.<BR/><BR/>THIS IS OUR COUNTRY HOME AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN GOZO. REMOVE IT BEFORE WE LOSE IT !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-83936336995629018532008-07-29T02:05:00.001+02:002008-07-29T02:05:00.001+02:00The million euro question is: who is really behind...The million euro question is: who is really behind this development?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-21273293678291708342008-07-29T02:05:00.000+02:002008-07-29T02:05:00.000+02:00I wonder ... with the new strategic plan of Gozo b...I wonder ... with the new strategic plan of Gozo being an ecological island coming into force ... where do such blunders fit in?<BR/><BR/>It is a shame that we are being fed so much nonesense like the environment being a priority and that the island's heritage will be protected, yet such monstrosity (and several others) never seems to disappear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-8022424794073331672008-07-29T02:04:00.000+02:002008-07-29T02:04:00.000+02:00Had such an article appeared during election fever...Had such an article appeared during election fever time, this page would have been filled with PN apologists uttering all sorts of praise to their "pro-active" government and poking fun at the dream laden AD arguments.<BR/><BR/>Now they are so silent.<BR/><BR/>They know that AD speaks about the issues all the time, everytime. AD does not do it to fish for votes. AD uses all of its (limited) energy to improve the future of these islands.<BR/><BR/>Yet...come election time...most people will again be suffering from mass amnesia. Malta's string pullers will again help their puppet parties to yet another victory. AD's limited energy will still not be enough. The youths will again go the huge mass meetings in search for a drink and a partner but nothing else. Nothing will change.<BR/><BR/>Itamar is right all the way.<BR/>Yet...although one day he might really get fed up, and give up, AD will not give up. AD is becoming notorious for its ability to live-on and rise from the ashes, no matter how many times it was considered as being dead and buried.<BR/><BR/>Long live AD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-14067184222484402562008-07-29T02:02:00.001+02:002008-07-29T02:02:00.001+02:00The same old story. If you have enough money and y...The same old story. <BR/><BR/>If you have enough money and you have the right connections you can do what you want on this island! <BR/><BR/>Isn't it enough that most of our beautiful island is being taken up by buildings. Was there a need of another eyesore in Dwejra. Film makers chose the breathtaking view of the 'window' as the place where Neptune spoke to Ulysess a few years back....<BR/><BR/>It's time we start appreciating the natural beauty of our islands. So please wake up everyone before it's too late. <BR/><BR/>Together we can make a difference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-47938886611698787482008-07-29T02:02:00.000+02:002008-07-29T02:02:00.000+02:00Gozo, our charming and enchanted sister isle, is b...Gozo, our charming and enchanted sister isle, is being continously and sytematically ravaged by semi-illiterate, insensitive and unscrupulous developers, who seem bent on making quick and easy money, even at the cost of eliminating, at one fell swoop, one of the island's most scenic natural attractions, seemingly forgetful of the fact that Gozo's heritage goes back hundreds of thousands of years. if not millions! Time for action! Stop this devastation and destruction. Remove this monstrosity and do it fast!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-80353693896604698102008-07-28T03:10:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:10:00.000+02:00They're just waiting for the ''deviations from the...They're just waiting for the ''deviations from the plan'' to be approved, somehow, .. just bend the rules slightly and make everything fit.<BR/><BR/>But then again we all knew the developers rule the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-91482084066105446852008-07-28T03:09:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:09:00.000+02:00The simplicity of the necessary action is the prov...The simplicity of the necessary action is the prove that its not inability but the unwillingness to do something about it by the nationalist government.<BR/><BR/>The answer being to take it down.<BR/><BR/>What did they hope for?<BR/>...that the seas calm down and that the project was restarted in a year or two?<BR/><BR/>There is no point of debate the building is illegal and unwanted. <BR/><BR/>It must be demolishedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-74663755959614131402008-07-28T03:08:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:08:00.000+02:00Is this what Giovanna Debono have in mind when she...Is this what Giovanna Debono have in mind when she is referring to ECO-GOZO? <BR/><BR/>To quote Ronald Reagan and his famous Berlin speech in 1982 .. "Honorevoli Tear down that gross structure. Can't you see that it does not belong at Dwejra?" <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately it is not blocking her driver's view so what's the urgency?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-45059516535597315502008-07-28T03:07:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:07:00.000+02:00I am a permanent resident and love the Maltese isl...I am a permanent resident and love the Maltese islands. But - I am very upset that the building trade continues to get away with the despoiling of my new home. Even if the Maltese islands were huge, and the damage could somehow be accommodated, it would be wicked to so harm our heritage. <BR/><BR/>It is wrong for many reasons - not least economical reasons. Who is going to use or buy these wretched buildings when not only visitors and tourists but also locals turn away in disgust from what will soon be a totally barren landscape? <BR/><BR/>The builders are 'shitting in their (our!) own nest' - and our minority Government is letting them get away with it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-82751602438365177042008-07-28T03:05:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:05:00.000+02:00When the (Gonzi?)PN came with the idea of eco-Gozo...When the (Gonzi?)PN came with the idea of eco-Gozo, at AD people were stunned since when the Green Party proposed the same thing 2 years ago there was almost no reaction.<BR/><BR/>However, humbly, the Greens said nothing, hoping that at least the idea is taken and Gozo will be saved.<BR/><BR/>Again voters were deceived once again. Eco-Gozo is just a scam, a pre-election farce and examples like this (together with many others) prove it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-41562109073179582932008-07-28T03:04:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:04:00.000+02:00As a professional in tourism development and a sen...As a professional in tourism development and a senior academic consultant, I can say that I am getting fed up with Malta.<BR/><BR/>It simply beggars believe that a place so steeped in historical importance (that all of you seem to be proud of) and natural beauty, is being regarded as a short term money maker for native property owners and ego tripping politicians, who probably plan to retire abroad anyway.<BR/><BR/>Your own young people relayed to me, during the various classes and lectures I have given around the country, that they see no future on Malta and just want to get out as soon as they finished their free, but low quality, study. Their intellectual input is not appreciated or utilized by a generation of power mongering semi-literates.<BR/><BR/>Malta can thank its blatantly corrupt ruling class for becoming an Arab-style dictatorship (it really is a one-party system, with the same people running both parties behind the screens) that is an embarrassment to the western world. You once again voted for them and think that you are not to blame for any of their decisions after that.<BR/><BR/>As history often revealed: 'people get the leadership they deserve'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-83718249630668892772008-07-28T03:03:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:03:00.000+02:00Yet another example of the total state of inertia ...Yet another example of the total state of inertia under a Nationalist government. The incredible thing is that one of the most beautiful of all tourist attractions has to be ruined by this horrifying montrosity and then we speak of making the island an ecological one. What a joke, what a tragedy. One has to give up in this country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-13131207799561320122008-07-28T03:02:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:02:00.000+02:00why complain?!...Gozo was declared an eco-island a...why complain?!<BR/><BR/>...Gozo was declared an eco-island a few days ago by the minister for Gozo, everyone is happy especially the major of san lawrenz and his fellow pn voters, and the sun shines brighty over the maltese islands...please hand me that banana over there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-81725134333593022532008-07-28T03:01:00.001+02:002008-07-28T03:01:00.001+02:00Want to hear the joke of the year?GOZO is being pr...Want to hear the joke of the year?<BR/><BR/>GOZO is being promoted as ECO ISLAND!!!<BR/><BR/>With Hondoq ir-Rummien, Ta' Cenc, Ramla, Dwejra, and the 100 tumoli of orchards and fertile land just below the proposed Nadur cemetery all ear marked for destruction.<BR/><BR/>What is going to be left? <BR/><BR/>The concrete jungle of Marsalforn, Xlendi and Mgarr!!!.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-84272861118503897452008-07-28T03:01:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:01:00.000+02:00What are we saying here?Once the irreversible step...What are we saying here?<BR/><BR/>Once the irreversible step has been taken to sanction the illegal scruffy dirty ugly boat houses (sic) on the site the new concrete structure presents such a contrast that it shocks your brains as to how such an aesthetic achievement can take the attention from the beauty of the site. Is it not perhaps repeated in Malta? <BR/><BR/>Take the cage-rack Midi development on Tigne Point next to a characterless tower and ugly square buildings that manages to take all the attention of beautiful baroque Valletta. <BR/><BR/>Is it not another aesthetic masterpiece in the annals of MEPA. <BR/><BR/>That is the mentality - take it or die.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-64267580617056874392008-07-28T03:00:00.000+02:002008-07-28T03:00:00.000+02:00Driving down to Dwejra from San Lawrenz one is reg...Driving down to Dwejra from San Lawrenz one is regaled with an outstandingly beautiful scene until they get to the bottom of the road to witness this monstrosity which is only making mockery of us as a national unfortunately.<BR/><BR/>Seems to me that Gozo has a government of its own with such atrocities taking place and nobody high up batting an eyelid.<BR/><BR/>This horrendous skeleton should be torn down and replaced with a more aesthetically pleasing structure that befits the place. And whilst you are at it, tear down the illegal boathouse which have mushroomed all over the place and are used as summer residences please.<BR/><BR/>This concrete structure is making a laughing stock of whoever applied for EU funds to build it in the first place. Do these people perhaps feel that we should be grateful for their scandalous project simply because it is co funded by the EU.... frankly I doubt how much the EU truly knows about this actually.<BR/><BR/>Have not enough Gozitans traveled far and wide enough to know that such monstrosities are a shame to their homeland! Wake up before its too late.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-85271356044298477172008-07-28T02:59:00.000+02:002008-07-28T02:59:00.000+02:00It seems to me that this continous recklessnes of ...It seems to me that this continous recklessnes of natural resources is being reflected everywhere and there is no effort to stop this. <BR/><BR/>On one side of the coin the island is promoted as a haven of natural beauty and at the same time leaving this monster welcoming our tourists. <BR/><BR/>Sooner before we think this country will end up a deserted concrete island. <BR/><BR/>And where is MEPA, anyway?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-37482821025893690272008-07-28T02:58:00.001+02:002008-07-28T02:58:00.001+02:00Once again MEPA shows itself to be a "toothless ti...Once again MEPA shows itself to be a "toothless tiger". <BR/><BR/>It is little wonder that it is held in contempt by many people. The failure by the Government to put any backbone in the system damages the reputation of the Government and Malta's standing in the eyes of the rest of the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-42545386444499281412008-07-28T02:58:00.000+02:002008-07-28T02:58:00.000+02:00There's just one comment i can do when I see these...There's just one comment i can do when I see these things.....................WHAT'S NEW!!!! <BR/><BR/>Irregularities, creating hideous buildings, obviously with or without permission, no legal enforcements and the increase in all types of allergies have been the order of the day in Malta for years and years. <BR/><BR/>May I ask..........<BR/>is this type of building, if one can call it that, part of the project of eco-Gozo??? <BR/><BR/>An answer would be very much appreciated!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2608283343344336112.post-47044108394619815542008-07-28T02:56:00.000+02:002008-07-28T02:56:00.000+02:00The whole idea of a conservation area seems to hav...The whole idea of a conservation area seems to have gone right over the head of the Mayor, the Tourist board, the Ministry and Mepa. <BR/><BR/>The story boards proudly announce a fish and bird conservation area but fishing boats and shore fishermen continue to cast their lines and pots, and trapping sites abound. <BR/><BR/>The car park is not built of natural materials as was muted in the plan, unless asphalt is indigenous to Gozo. <BR/><BR/>To make way for the easy parking of the Hawkers a number of beautiful Tamarisk trees were simply chopped down. <BR/><BR/>This area has three of the highest profile attractions on Gozo, the Inland Sea, Fungus Rock and the Azure window. <BR/><BR/>Will no one step up and preserve them? <BR/><BR/>I despair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com