Government issues call for ‘expressions of interest’ for design of new market stalls
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February 2, 2015 at 6:39pm
Talk about putting the cart before the horse. This should have been done at the outset, instead of allowing a Labour Party official and government crony, William Lewis, to give the job to himself as chairman of the Market Improvement Committee.
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I sure hope that anyone who is in full control of his thinking faculties, stays out of this until location is changed.
Failure to do so means being party to this blasphemy.
How can a market stall selling G strings and sexy underwear have a complimentary design to a multi million Renzo Piano project?
Labour’s and Muscat’s spiteful determination to deface this project is beyond comprehension.
It’s not spite, just predicament.
Who issued the order for the market stalls to be constructed and how much was William Lewis paid to design them?
An Opposition MP should put that question in parliament.
And who is going to pay for those that have been completed and the new ones?
They will be sold on Maltapark by Chris Cardona himself. Some have been altered to include a pole (pm him for private viewing).
Fully agree with your questions and even for more information about the matter.
As reported on TVM, work on the stalls had commenced months ago. What are the expenses involved, including material and hours of work?
Not only Opposition but media too should press to get answers to such questions.
Hilarious.
Let’s have a plan, in A3 format, of where the bankarelli are meant to go first.
“Barkarelli”.
Molto pittoresco. Isa, Kenneth, “Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour
Souris à nos ivresses, Nuit plus douce que le jour,
Ô,belle nuit d’amour…”
What a bunch of mediocre people. The Maltese word for stall is bankarella (from the italian bancarella) not “barkarella” as stated in the press release.
Moreover, is Government serious in its determination to transfer this sale of underwear, bras, hair extensions, fake wear tad-ditta, pirate recordings and the country’s best kitsch to Valletta’s entrance?
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They are bankarelli not barkarelli.
Flok bazuzlu jieklu tnejn !
If William Lewis has a modicum of decency which is very rare in the Labour crowd he should resign immediately.
Although I agree with you Vic, I think its Jason Micallef who should resign besides Lou Bondi.
Did you see the list of animals held in the private zoo just published by Times of Malta? Emus and ostriches are mammals according to the Ministry.
What a waste of our taxes!
William Lewis should be fired if he doesn’t resign.
If somebody working for the private sector had messed up like this, he would have been given a warning or sacked.
Who is going to shoulder the responsibility for opting for the first design or was it a direct order? Court questions please.
Horrid. I think this press release intends to refer to BANKARELLI and not “barkarelli”, even though none of these words exist in a Maltese dictionary. Barkarelli might relate to boats not market stalls.
http://en.bab.la/dictionary/italian-english/bancarelle
Simply a bunch of stupid asses.
Dawn jafu x’inhuma jaghmlu?
Uff this government is so painful…I can’t stand it anymore with the pettiness and self absorbed media announcements. Can the real government please stand up? I’m getting really bored.
Could it be that everybody missed out on the grand intention. The ‘suq tal-monti’ is an extension to the new Parliament building, after all they will be all dishing out the same fare. Cheap stuff, cheap politics and cheap integrities.
Beware.
They are moving the goalposts.
The design of the huts is appalling. That is pretty obvious.
However the main bone of contention is where they’re going to be set up.
All designers worth their salt should refrain from having anything to do with this charade before the location of this ‘souk’ is determined.
Jizbalja Dr. Joseph Muscat u thallas int.
Kemm kellu ragun Dr. Gonzi.
So after giving out all those iced buns, is it possible that the government did not find a couple of people who have enough matter up top to realize that the call should have been made BEFORE all 75 stalls were built?
Muscat must have taken another dead end alley in the roadmap.
Seems he is lost in a maze.
Maybe the minister is thinking that all those people who had applied for and were granted the citizenship, are now going to enthusiastically apply. This would give them the chance to confirm Joseph’s ideology of Malta selling EU citizenship to persons with higher intelligence.
Incompetence at its worst.
Bhas-soltu. Miktuba mic-cwiec.
Din id-darba ghall-bazuzli wkoll, mhux ghac-cwiec biss.
Nahseb kienu qed jaqraw ir-rowd mepp ta’ taht fuq.
I hope the Maltese realize this is just a distraction–“smoke screen” if you will, of the REAL issue.
The REAL issue is placing a market beside, in front, around, a world class design.
By getting people to focus on the kind of stalls themselves, the government distracts us from the real issue of why those stalls should not be there at all.
And within all this mess, we are only seeing what comes to light.
I dread what hasn’t yet been exposed. It can only be more of same and worse.
Better was never in their sights.
Who else? what else? how else? where else?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-02-03/local-news/Plan-to-put-monti-stalls-between-Parliament-and-Teatru-Rjal-still-stands-6736129964
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/comment/blogs/49140/cities_are_about_people_not_monuments#.VNCPbtLF9mM
‘…There is no life looking back at you when you gaze upon those grizzled, forbidding walls. Perhaps the effect is simply down to a glaring absence of windows…’
‘…It is not just the untidy market stalls with their (admittedly tacky) wares that will get in the way of Piano’s grand but sterile vision; it is also the people who man those stalls, with their shouts and their noise and their day-to-day bustle; the smell of ‘imqaret’ as it wafts about the streets; the clinking of coins and the inane chatter of human conversation…..’
As I said, democracy permeates mass, erosion becomes texture and texture the functional nature of the material itself.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/53789403@N00/15356359953
And that’s the more sterile, ‘windowless’ facade.
Windows; preferably with geranium pots on their sill.
Of course people are entitled to an opinion, as are they game for ridicule the moment they spout nonsense to stitch together a thesis.
‘The smell of imqaret’, ‘soullessness’, oh dear, the poor humanist and his hungry love of the soul; that human choice to engage materia and risk the irrational never be an option.
The problem Raphael Vassallo, is stark analphabetism in all things beyond reason for familiarity’s sake. We’ve had an anthropologist intimidated by a 1930s block of flats; can’t allow a humanist go down the same route.
In the meantime, more money down the drain.
Do some journalists assume that if they throw the word ‘expert’ in front of a name, readers would just know who they are talking about or just take the author’s word for it?
‘Expert Ian Lansley has been appointed by the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation to make recommendations on embellishment works in front of Castille.’
Actual journalists have an inquisitive mind and realize that readers would want to know what a person is an expert of, is it design or tree replanting, since he seems to be giving advice on both?
Who has previously entrusted him with work of significance/importance and how did he do? How was he selected for the Castille work?
We would be excused if we are a tiny bit sceptical of some experts.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150203/local/expert-appointed-to-make-recommenations-for-works-in-castille-square.554622
May we please have an itemized bill of what it has cost the Maltese coffers already, including manhours? Then may we have the second bill?
L-aqwa li il- PPS M Cutajar gie jipoppa sidru jiftahar kemm qed johloq proceduri godda u efficjenti fic-civil. Sewwa jghid il -Malti: “Il-huta min rasha tinten.”