SOS Hondoq News

Monday, July 14, 2008

Ramla appeal hearing: ‘Would they have been so considerate with a commoner?’ – AD spokesman

Published on The Malta Independent by Francesca Vella.

It does make you wonder, particularly considering the hassles one has to go through every day when it comes to bureaucratic matters, especially legal matters.

In any event, the Ramla l-Hamra saga goes on. The government wants to turn Gozo into an ecological island and a tourist destination with a difference. And yet speculators, in Gozo especially, have the power to do what they fancy, depending on the depth of their pockets.

Ramla l-Hamra, Ta’ Cenc, Hondoq ir-Rummien... they are certainly all places with the potential to make Gozo an ecological island par excellence – but does the ecological value of these places really come before everything else? Does anything ever stand in the face of speculators’ greed?

To view the whole article, go to http://www.independent.com.mt:80/news.asp?newsitemid=72242