Now and again you’d get the odd article in The Times of Malta about how a Libyan fell a few storeys and lost his life, or a Tunisian fell down a shaft etc., without there ever being any follow up, despite the police investigations which supposedly took place.

I once was also shocked whilst out on the bender at a party held at a Sliema waterside restaurant, where a Bulgarian (a supposed European brother) was treated like dirt behind the bar by his Maltese master and worked like a dog all night for (what he later confided to me) was 25 cents an hour, which he saved to send back to his family.

Truth be told, we Maltese carry out a lot of charity per capita, and of this we should be proud. But many of us are also responsible for the acute suffering of many ‘aliens’ within our own shores, and are not made accountable even for their loss of life.

Frankly, it is disgusting and unacceptable. I am not saying that these stomach-turning matters do not occur overseas, but surely the authorities in Malta can do a lot more to cut out these abuses, especially when one considers what a small area there is to police in the first place.

And if this were to occur, then perhaps the sister of this poor Latvian victim, God rest his soul, might not end up in Malta as a sex worker or lap dancer of similar. What other job can she possibly do here, unless it’s cleaning out rooms as a chambermaid?

Shame on you, B & B Holdings, and on all those who exploit these desperate foreigners. I bet that the Malta Labour Party – supposedly socialist, left-wing and in favour of the worker – has been silent about this.

I suppose this is just ‘life going on’.

Employers and employees also seem to disregard safety rules. I recently saw a clip of construction workers at the Barrakka lift construction site, with no safety harness, kicking a plank in place, some 250 feet above the street level below. He was just holding on to the scaffolding with one hand!

Surely the company can do something for the victim’s family. As suggested, a lump sum plus wages for the next few years will somewhat ease his family’s anxiety and financial needs, and the sooner they do it, the better.

So Mr Bartolo, please do your duty by this family.

We’ve all seen it happen – bouncers refusing black people entry into clubs for no apparent reason. And now a scuffle results in the death of a human being and no one is held accountable.