How about a banana festival while you’re at it?
The desecration of the painstakingly (and expensively) created area at the entrance to Valletta continues apace.
Now we have an absolutely hideous and tacky kiosk selling junk food slap bang in the middle of the new square.
It has a permit from none other than the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts, though why that outfit should be handing out permits of that nature is anybody’s guess.
This is the organisation chaired and run by Taghna Lkoll appointee Albert Marshall, a man who makes me wonder, each time I walk past him, whether Merlin has waved a wand and brought somebody’s Essex garden gnome to shuffling life.
He is the man who replaced Davinia Galea, who was forced out by the incoming Taghna Lkoll barbarians as they swarmed over the gate (literally). I can’t imagine Mrs Galea giving a permit for a hideous kiosk, or even a nice one for that matter, to be set up there. But then that’s why people like her were removed and replaced by people like Albert Marshall.
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If Renzo Piano visits Malta and see how these bunch of amateurs are making a mockery of all that effort, he will probably have a heart attack.
They are just not fit for the job and what irritates me most is that those NGOs who used to be so vociferous and make a fuss over everything under the previous government now seem to have lost their voice.
This government has either bought their silence or else has frightened them into submission.
This is a tragedy not only for Renzo Piano project but most seriously for democracy. This government is literally getting away with murder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIkkNFdt9fw
And atroci is the word.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150212/local/mepa-turns-down-permit-for-monument-of-the-four-knights-at-city-gate.555795
Damn.
‘..Last month, an application was filed by the chairman of the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation, Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi, to place it opposite the new Parliament….’
An hour ago the same article specified how the OPM justified the decision saying the light brigade had been commissioned by the ‘Nationalist Administration’. Edited.
As for the kiosk,
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-02-12/local-news/Valletta-mayor-says-kiosk-should-not-have-been-placed-in-La-Valette-Square-6736130488
Finger pointing, uncomfortably close to the OPM again. The statement uncovers the degree of inept handling subdued to Taghnalkoll. Jahasra mhux tort taghhom.
Alexei Dingli for Lord Protector of the Faith.
Was does Valletta’s honorary citizen Kenneth Zammit Tabona make of all this?
There’s a Melita cable kiosk just past the bridge too.
Irrespective whether Melita have a permit or not this horrendous kiosk should be removed immediately.
And the police are chasing goats at Msida.
Other members of the Arts Council:
Dr Paul Cachia
Frederick Testa
Nicholas Depiro
Dominic Galea
Caroline Tonna
Jackie Scott
Joe Micallef
Depiro.
Explains the artisans’ market. Hafna bizzilla.
Did Frederick Testa get excited at the prospect of the kiosk selling hot dogs?
Frederick Testa. Does that explain the hot dogs?
Jahasra how cheap salvation was.
What an awful, awful pity.
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That lace effort was so very gaudy.
I am sure that not all the members of the Arts Council voted in favour of granting permits for placing of kiosks/stalls in Pjazza La Vallette. Those members not in favour should speak up to defend their standing.
Frederick Testa’s pathetic, amateur plays are on Youtube. Lord have mercy!
Following the public outcry, they’ll probably tell us that it was a piece of art, put there to elicit a reaction.
Can ‘a piece of art’ be translated as ‘bicca ta’ l-art’?
In this case it certainly can.
Ghamillu chicken and chips lil Du Vallette.
Is that a chicken wrap De Valette is holding in his outstretched arm?
It turns out that Jason Micallef is the most culturally alert of the lot.
KZT – ssssh kelb laghqi la tqajmux.
The statue next to the kiosk is pretty hideous also and that too was commissioned by the previous government.
And to think they were planning on adding those four knights with it, which goes to show when it comes to taste both parties are seriously lacking – vide that horrendous piece next door to the War Memorial in Floriana.
Well, I reckon La Valette liked the occasional pastizz as much as the next man.
La Valette gabuh qisu waiter hemm. Fardal jonqsu.
Anzi ghadhom ma tajjruhx lhemm lil Vallette.
Ghala din il-vendikazzjoni shiha mal-Belt?
Parkegg li Pjazza De Vallette, monti li anqas estetikament ma jmur f’dahla ta’ belt, nuqqas ta’ tkomplija tal-progett originali, Karnival fi pjazza mill isbah tal Belt fejn nistu nghidu hija l-uniku post apert tal-belt u lista shiha li tkompli. Ejjew nuru li ahna ghandna kultura u nies kburin bil belt taghna specjalment issa li gejja s-sena tal Belt Ewropeja.
Intom in-nies tal-belt li intom tant kburin biha ftakru dan il-gvern x’vendikazzjoni qed jaghmel mal-belt li hi taghkom qabel ma hi taghna specjalment intom Beltin li ha l’vot taghkom semmhu lehinkom.
Is this photo real? Or is it a result of a photo-shop product?
[Daphne – The only thing that has been changed in this actual photograph is the sign on the front of the van.]
Have the wardens issued a fine to the white car seen parked behind the Kiosk.
That thing is dead in the centre of the square and resting with the base of the monument.
Kif ma jisthux?
Even La Vallette has turned his back on this tacky addition to his city.
Ser indumu indahku nies? Wara dik il-porkerja ta’ train li hemm iddur fil-belt, issa jmiss il-hot dog van?
We all pity Renzo Piano. I don’t care at all about him. He was paid well for his job.
What I pity is our children who should be living in this kind of culture under this government “tal-hamalli” elected by “hamalli”. Gvern bla gost u kultura. Gvern mitt sena lura.
I pity our capital city which deserves respect and appreciation.
There are no words to describe the kind of hamallgni shown in this picture.
Philistines!
Well, the banner advertising the event is still hanging on the St Venera tunnels… ready to be reused.
It seems like we re going to be seeing more and more of this sort of thing happening in the next years. We’re under the reign of the “Racanc”, with aesthetic tenets and standards of good behavior hijacked by unprincipled opportunists who will not recognise a beautiful thing (or a hideously ugly one for that matter) even if it kissed them passionately on the forehead.
What a shame this government is for our country – a country that in the eyes of most taghna-lkollers can match top countries and capital cities in Europe whilst at the same time approving such atrocious kiosk-acts.
At this rate, idiots and low-cultured individuals risk destroying this country in a year or two.
Speaking about Banana Festivals, every day I pass through the Sta. Venera tunnels and notice that the Banana Festival (Qormi) banner is still hanging up there 3 months after the event took place. Shouldn’t the Qormi Council remove it now?
The kiosk was moved to Ordnance Street exactly on the corner.
The woman owner was seen frying chips and infesting the area with cheap smells of hot oil.
She looked angry and irritable, so she must be a Taghna Lkoller.