I was astonished to read about the complaints of Mr Paedar Farrell in The Times telling us in general what we should do and what we should not. Being a regular holidaymaker who is in love with Gozo, and coming repeatedly for a long time, seems to make it easy to condemn that and the other since his interests and the vision and requirements of our rising younger generation many times may stand at different ends and thus, may create what he is complaining about.
Again he stopped short of realising what the needs of our inhabitants really are, so the answer to the first part of his letter is not so simple to solve.
Such a situation, as he describes in his letter of construction works around his flat, can be found even in his country but we are small and such works are visible and marked.
I am not justifying the irregularities he mentioned, legal or illegal, necessary or unnecessary; but he went above the limit insaying, and I quote “I welcome the government minister and his family to spend a night in my flat and then see what he would declare Gozo to be.”
It was a misfortune of that time to find such inconvenience around his flat but the world could not stop because he is holidaying in Gozo. There is an old saying “when in Rome do as the Romans do.”
I was under the impression that we belong to a circle from where civilisation had its roots but now I am starting to think otherwise.
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