Comments on: Is this for real?

By: Don

Don — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:00:28 +0000

There actually is a gozitan anthem, written by Mro. Joe Vella and poet Gorg Pisani. Here’s a link (melody only):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhWQ-R5b5hk

Having said that, it is plain ridiculous to suggest playing it at every official occasion. And believe me, as a Gozitan, I DREAD the idea of “independence”. That surely does not make me want to vote Labour, quite the contrary.

By: Spiru

Spiru — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:53:19 +0000

I don’t know why you belittle Gozitans, believe me. I find goods to be cheaper over there, aluminium services, garage doors, furniture, to name but a few, are made there after the raw materials are shipped from Malta, and brought over and still cheaper than Maltese goods.

We buy concrete iron rebar shipped from Malta to Gozo and back, and cheaper. I use welding services in Gozo, happy to send a truck over, and work it out cheaper, and when I sell goods over there, nobody pays as fast as the Gozitans.

By the way, do you know that new cars are cheaper there? And that a hobza tal-Malti is heavier and more wholesome? And a scoop of ice-cream from Granola cost me one euro last week from Xlendi – where do you find that in Malta? I wonder who is screwing who.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:43:17 +0000

In reply to Kurt Mifsud Bonnici. Wrong comparison. The U.S. is a federal republic. Malta isn't. We've already gone too far down the slippery slope with a regional council, a ministry, and all the trappings of an independent state for Gozo (bar a power station and an airport).

By: ray

ray — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:41:29 +0000

That flag looks like someone drowning.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:40:33 +0000

In reply to silvio.

I thought it was this:

Oh kif qalbna thabbat tnejn
Meta jaqsmu s’ghandna il-Maltejn.
Kemm niehdu gost nahxuhom
U ircevuta qatt ma n’tuhom.

Nghollu doppju l-prezzijiet
Niftahru bil-bizzilla u l-gbejniet.
Nerdghu kull sold li l-Ewropa ‘ttina
U issa rridu li jibnulna mina.

Helwa Ghawdex art twelidi.
Kemm nahxi bik ha nkabbar gidi.
Go fik taparsi resident
Ha nerda’ s-sussidji sal-inqas cent.

Bilfors kellhom jaghmluna regjun.
Dak ic-cent issa sar miljun.
Ahna gzira ta’ hallelin
U x’ghalazobbna mill-Maltin.

By: C Falzon

C Falzon — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:57:43 +0000

There should also be an Innu Tas-Sawt and a flag.

By: Pejxu

Pejxu — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:51:28 +0000

@ Silvio & Klawdju
Very sorry to note that your sense of humour is of the lowest level . I do not know why you choose to try to ridicule us Gozitans. Please Daphne next time around do censor such silly comments.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:33:19 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. And make Malta even more eye-wateringly tiny?

By: Klawdju

Klawdju — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:54:28 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. The Knights of Malta should have done something on the lines of Louisiana Purchase and we would have got rid of Gozo.

By: Kurt Mifsud Bonnici

Kurt Mifsud Bonnici — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:52:42 +0000

I love Gozo, I really do. The place is just beautiful, especially in the winter months. Nevertheless, it is ridiculous that any Gozitan would request the Gozitan “flag” be displayed and “anthem” be played during official functions.

The U.S. is made up of fifty states. Each have their own flag and distinct laws no less, never mind a state “anthem”. However, I do not recall all fifty state flags being displayed at every official function.