L-anqas tall-linja m’huma tajbin ministru.

I overheard this conversation between 2 employees of the contractor. They were baffled as to why they had to stop the culverts.

“Taffija” and not a permanent solution.

“Kummerc” as the raison d’être for everything.

Yes, it’s Malta all right.

It is of very poor quality and looks like a temporary job. The road is not smooth at all, either. Let’s see how this surfacing will stand the heavy waters that this season will bring.

With Reno Calleja we were to celebrate because the government had 25 metres of road resurfaced with tarmac.

Joseph Muscat called a press conference to announce a 2c reduction in the price of petrol.

Joe Mizzi just wanted to emulate these illustrious gentlemen by laying a new drain and boasting about it.

Meanwhile, Malta itself goes down the drain.

The evening shift was consistently one person asleep in his vehicle.

Why does nobody take the whole lot of them to court over the badly-signposted works?

Metal barriers in the middle of the road, night and day, without any hazard lights, or at best a dimly-flashing WW2-type of orange lights. And all this in a main road.

In any civilized country there would be 3-metre signs and flashing warnings. But we had a non-illuminated plastic barrier in the middle of the road.

And while we’re at it, routing traffic into a side-street in which nobody even bothered to remove the “sleeping policemen”. What a joke.

But when it comes to visiting the Azeris and deals with China and real reasons for honoring a Saudi Prince, then it’s sheer economy with information.

One is often told to look for this pattern when one is studying the methods employed by liars, not that this government would ever lie of course.