SOS Hondoq News

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

On the road to Damascus

Published on The Sunday Times of Malta on 10th December, 2006. This is part of a longer article by Evarist Bartolo.

Reality check
Another reversal of policy, which is as admirable as the Pauline conversion 2,000 years ago, is Government's decision to abandon its plans to build a golf course at Ix-Xaghra l-Hamra at Manikata. If this plan were to be pursued further, we would have lost one of the few remaining open spaces of ecological importance in Malta. May this lead to yet another reversal of intentions on the proposed development in Hondoq ir-Rummien in Gozo.