Cemplu lil Estrid! Ma jmurx jaqa l-Empire State Building!
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April 8, 2009 at 10:14am
My life depends on Astrid Vella, Mary Darmanin and Helen Tomkins
My friend in Manhattan has sent me an internet link to ‘The Future Beneath Us: 8 Great Projects Under New York’. It’s an exhibition that’s running until 5 July at the Transit Museum and at the New York Public Library, examining “eight mega underground infrastructure projects that will dramatically change how we move around New York”.
And no one is lying down on the floor and screaming.
God bless America.
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I can’t believe that you forgot to include Marie Benoit in your list of people your life depends on……..She thinks ALL her 37 fans depend on her. Ajma dalghodu, (spellcheck pls) bdejna tajjeb !
Tony Pace – Imma ghaliex ghandhek ghaliha daqsekk, jahasra?
Don’t they have the FMA there? (Flimkien ghal Manhattan Ahjar)?
Maybe Joseph Muscat can suggest to Barak that someone who knows the ropes may have figured out a way to finance these projects and it should be investigated by the FBI.
On another tack….by popular “eklejm” Gensna is going to be staged again as an encore. I’m tempted to go and have a laugh at the naff lyrics and idiotic eighties propoganda and to watch is-suldati tal-azzar shed a tear or two at this PL tearjerker, and to prove to Kev and his friends that yes, I can withstand 3 hours of nausea as well.
Anyone tempted as well? Daphne was coming, but I’ll bet they would pelt us with rotten tomatoes if they see us both there.
For the extension to Mellieha bay Hotel (98 units) (for “unit” read as a “separate tourism accommodation unit which one day can be sold off as a residential unit”), the Natural Heritage Advisory Panel in its meeting of the 15th February 2008 concluded: “Proposal is objectionable in principle and the panel strongly recommends refusal since the proposed development involves an extensive development in a relatively unspoilt natural land including garigue and maquis. Furthermore, part of the site is also scheduled as an Area of Ecological Importance.”
And yet, Paul Cardona claimed in a letter to the Sunday Times last February, that FAA “did not object to the Mellieha Holiday Complex expansion due to the hotel’s good track record in environmental care.”
So just because the owner planted a few trees, FAA decided to give the Mellieha project the nod.
In contrast, they launched a vindictive campaign against the Ulyses project many months earlier. Both the Ulysses Lodge project and the Mellieha Bay hotel project are outside development zone. Contrary to the Mellieha project, however, the Ulyses project already had an outline permit and it involved development on a site which was already committed by development.
Clearly, FAA don’t give a hoot about the merits or demerits of a development application. “The people” pick and choose which projects to tear apart according to criteria known only to themselves.
@MC – Maybe hidden agendas and interests? Who knows?
Do you think, Daph, that Evarist Bartolo was involved in this? I thought that this kind of thinking was his idea. Are we going to start copying Labour’s bad policies?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090409/local/governor-backs-proposed-changes-to-stipends-system
It is not fair on middle and lower class families.
[Daphne – I’m not following the matter. But to be honest, my initial reaction is that mothers of university students don’t need to stay home to look after the children. They can work and put them through university instead of depending on other students’ mothers (and fathers) to do it through their taxes. Most families struggle to put their children through our FREE university only because most families depend on one income, whereas this is unheard of in the rest of the world, except among the privileged. Once the children have grown up, there really are no more excuses, are there?]
A loan which can be repaid at low interest rates once students find employment is only fair and that should not really have an effect on ‘middle of lower class’ families, should it?
All that money could be put to better use such as extending the library which is pathetic and will remain so until funds become available.
And where there is one or two other smaller children, especially if one is physically handicapped? I happen to come from this family.