They don’t have money to put a garden in Valletta ditch, but they’re spending Eur6 million on the carnival people
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February 7, 2015 at 11:51am
The government has said that it can’t complete the Piano project with a garden in Valletta ditch, because it doesn’t have the money, but now it has announced that it is to spend six million euros on constructing a place where people can work on the carnival floats that are used just one day a year. Oh, and to have somewhere bands can rehearse.
That’s what I call really good and public-spirited use of public funds – spending them on the few to whom you have made specific promises rather than on something more worthwhile that everyone needs or can enjoy.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-02-07/local-news/Six-million-euro-investment-in-carnival-village-and-performance-centre-for-artists-in-Marsa-6736130233
The project will cost much more than 6 million euros. You cannot build such a large complex with 6 million euros. What a waste of money.
Karnival and Festivils are CULTURE.
Piano and trees are trash.
I would have understood ditching the Valletta garden in favour of addressing the drug problems among 12-year-olds.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150207/local/worrying-number-of-drug-addicts-aged-12-no-facility-to-cater-for-them.555114
I guess 12-year-olds don’t vote.
I am really looking forward to seeing who will benefit from the Eur3.6 million collected in l-Istrina campaign this year especially when so much money was spent last year on the eating disorders center which allegedly has only taken in a very small number of clients.
So dear Willie did effin all, eh?
Six million is a very optimistic figure.
Do you prefer Renzo Piano’s new entrance to Valletta or do you prefer the old ‘city gate’ entrance?
http://www.firstmalta.com/entrance.htm
[Daphne – I apologise for being blunt, but really, what a pointless question.]
Pointless and asinine. I prefer the new entrance, but so what?
To them money spent on upgrading Malta, infrastructure, projects that will attract tourists, etc. is a waste of money. What is the result of the money spent on educating such people. Zilch. They will never learn or rather they do not want to upgrade their situations except money-wise.
If it serves to acknowledge the contribution to the country’s attractions and pecularities, I don’t see a problem.
When this is abused to cast aside another dimension in the nation’s cultural spectrum, then yes.
Prijorita’: VOTI
I hate it when politicians and pseudo-intellectuals use silly buzzwords: artists will “cross-pollinate”. How? Are they honey bees?
Sounds like a circle jerk to me.
I love all the emphasis put on the word ‘artists’.
I’d bet my bottom dollar that even if the place was in theory open to all artists (which it won’t be; they’re using the word for prestige and marketing purposes), the carnival people will completely take over the complex and make anyone else who tries to use it feel really uncomfortable and out of place.
Yes, because the history of art was made by centralised government garages.
Why doesn’t anyone say ANYTHING?
Any artist-lawyers out there?
Not honey bees, but work and music as shown here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0x0KYChq4
Mangion is now being called a “technical adviser”. Did I hear someone ask him to show his qualifications in “technical” matters?
Surely you know what the Labour definition of qualifications is by now?
Well, someone should ask whose brains were behind this project. I don’t think Willie Mangion has any.
As for the Valletta ditch garden it is only an excuse to accommodate other promises, nothing more.
Just some common sense.
Both projects are important but the ditch should take priority.