City salad
Like many cities or urban settlements around the world there is always a common challenge; space. How we use the little space available is always our choice, whether it is seats on a balcony or a barbeque on the rooftop. However in comparison to...
Pressure on MEPA Officials results in Loss of Heritage
Serious mistakes in the assessment of an application by a MEPA official has confirmed the MEPA board’s poor judgement in its recent demand that MEPA employees must generate an extra Lm1 million in order to qualify for their performance bonus. ...
Safe as Houses
Following yet another house collapse, the incident in Fgura which could have had have tragic results, Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar is seriously concerned at recurring malpractices, lack of proper on-site checks and the inexistence of any...
FAA Welcomes Refusal Of Wied il-Għomor Permit
Dear Sir/Madam, Flimkien għal Ambjent Ahjar welcomes the Planning Authority’s decision to unanimously refuse the application to build a home for the elderly in the quarry at Wied il-Għomor, one of the few remaining unbuilt areas between Swieqi...
Destruction of Cittadella Heritage House
This week MEPA issued a permit for the demolition of three of the last surviving Art Deco houses that gave Qui si-Sana its character. MEPA is now processing application PA01086/16 submitted by the Gozitan authorities to destroy a grand heritage...
Care of Elderly – by Developers
Following the rest of Europe, Malta is aiming to provide care for elderly people in their own homes and communities, yet MEPA has launched a policy to promote large-scale institutions, instead of fostering small community residences and home care,...
Facing the Rising Tide
Science fiction novels often show a bleak future of erratic climates, rising seas and drowning cities, due to greenhouse gas increases in our atmosphere. As the planet warms, most retained heat is absorbed by oceans, leading to thermal expansion of...
Two-Faced Environmental Corruption
At a time when virtually every newspaper front page features an article related to corruption, let’s focus on the two hands of environmental corruption in Malta: the one hand that commits corruption, and the other hand which silently tolerates it....
It’s just a tree
Throughout my professional career I have heard this said so many times, all over the world and I never cease to find it upsetting. Trees are present, in one form or another, almost everywhere in the world including hot deserts where these small...
Of Traffic Jams and Pollution
The latest controversy to hit this rock is the gridlock we are all experiencing daily. A drop of rain and nothing moves. Once school starts, so many parents drive their children to school that our roads cannot cope. The situation is untenable...