Smart metres cost €20 million
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101108/local/smart-metres-cost-20-million

Is a smart metre shorter or longer than a stupid one?

Maybe they use “just-in-time” stock control so as not to tie up costly funds from the overdraft in stock; or they could be getting stocks from Sicily or mainland Italy?

Considering the angle of the photo, was it Kurt Farrugia who took it from beneath?

Qal li se jaghmel li jista’ biex ikollna arja nadifa. Qal ukoll li ser jintaxxa il-pollution. Xi forma ta’ carbon tax, nassumi.
Allura nahseb li ser jaghmel taxxa fuq in-nifs – ma kull nifs narmu ma nafx kemm milligrammi ta’ carbon dioxide. Malajr jigborhom.

“Well, tough, it’s not going to happen. I wasn’t born into a Labour family and I don’t have a low IQ or a sackload of lanzit.”

What’s with you and your constant reverting to cheap IQ and social insults each time you’re challenged, huh? Someone needs to get la…errr go out more.

[Daphne – Because it’s true, that’s why. If there are people with a high IQ (or even just average), who weren’t born into a Labour family, and who do not have it in for the Nationalists because of some perceived wrongs or because of jealousy and resentment and the wish to bring others down, who have looked at the political options on offer and said ‘Hmmm, Labour looks like the best. Those people have some really good ideas and they are very credible and able. I’ll vote for them’, then show them to me. Because I have yet to meet a single one.]

I agree with Riya’s comments.

But over the last years I’ve noticed when I visit Malta that small shops do not stock enough goods. I can’t understand why, when there is enough spending power and the market is open to everything.

Pharmacies do not stock enough. If you ask for the most common medicine, that’s fine, you find everything. But if it’s a prescription fo something which is not sold regularly, you don’t find it. They have to specifically order it in. Maybe I always visit the wrong pharmacies.

The same happened with a washing machine which I needed urgently. Most of the answers; we don’t have them in stock, and if the models I liked were available, I would be told, that I have to wait a week or more because they have plenty of deliveries. This happens in Malta were distances are so short. If they don’t employ enough delivery people, then the goods take long to arrive to destination.

Well, you’ll never make a detective.

Well said.