Comments on: Zonqor Point: a quick look at what the prime minister called “wasteland” https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/06/zonqor-point-a-quick-look-at-what-the-prime-minister-called-wasteland/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeremy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/06/zonqor-point-a-quick-look-at-what-the-prime-minister-called-wasteland/#comment-3042111 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:34:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=64452#comment-3042111 ”It is quite incredible – even if sadly consonant with the more extreme versions of neoliberalism doing the global rounds – that a government should turn on its own public institutions. It is downright pathetic that it should do so to indulge a bunch of wheeler-dealers who have never contributed anything to Malta (I use the word to mean place rather than nation), and who specialise in sharking about to get weak governments to give them land on which they can build their enclaves.” Mark-Anthony Falzon

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150524/opinion/The-commonwealth-of-Sadeen.569458#.VWFu5fC_E-M.facebook

]]> By: Maggie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/06/zonqor-point-a-quick-look-at-what-the-prime-minister-called-wasteland/#comment-3042077 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:51:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=64452#comment-3042077 ”Commission chairman [Martin Scicluna] denies that legal notice aims to help university investor”

”Asked by Times of Malta whether, as an environmentalist, he approved of the siting of the American University in Zonqor, he said it would not be professional of him to comment.”

Please excuse me while I puke.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150603/local/commission-chairman-denies-that-legal-notice-aims-to-help-university.570875

]]> By: Ms.D.Galea https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/06/zonqor-point-a-quick-look-at-what-the-prime-minister-called-wasteland/#comment-3042072 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:33:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=64452#comment-3042072 In reply to Francis Saliba MD.

A university whose top priority is the view from the dormitories.

]]> By: J Sammut https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/06/zonqor-point-a-quick-look-at-what-the-prime-minister-called-wasteland/#comment-3042045 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 07:43:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=64452#comment-3042045 The environment is under attack.

I came across this today.

Not only have they overturned a MEPA decision, but they have rebuilt the road to accommodate the quarry owners.

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/lifestyle/environment/47922/zurrieq_quarry_in_protected_area_greenlit_by_new_mepa_appeals_tribunal#.VW6e7yjBV6M

http://mapcarta.com/17471206

https://tenders.com.mt/tenders/transport/services/road-transport/22015.html

https://www.etenders.gov.mt/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=971131

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150122/local/Ministry-calls-renewed-dumping-at-Wied-Fulija-temporary-storage-.552848

]]> By: Francis Saliba MD https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/06/zonqor-point-a-quick-look-at-what-the-prime-minister-called-wasteland/#comment-3042040 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 06:28:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=64452#comment-3042040 That is valuable farmland under cultivation which our prime minister intends to change into a concrete wasteland by selling our Maltese patrimony to a speculator from Jordan under the pretext of erecting a sham university selling sham degrees.

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