Our young have had enough – Anna Marie Galea
If we ever had any doubt about how young people felt about living in this country at this moment in time, we need only look at the surveys. In October of last year, the findings of an EY ‘Generate Youth’ survey were published. This survey showed that 70% of Maltese youths see a future for themselves outside of the country and, almost a year later, statistics have shown that things have far from improved. A survey by FreeHour in conjunction with Marketing Advisory Services found that 83% of Malta’s young people believe that the country’s environmental situation will worsen in the next five years, 80.9% felt that Malta still has a culture of impunity and 77.8% believe that the education system will remain the same or worsen in the next five years. Add all the above to the fact that a further 81% believe that salaries are too low in Malta and it makes for a sobering, staggering recipe for disaster. The writing, it would seem, is on the wall. Yet, despite this, we keep trudging on with ministers only interested in cutting more ribbons in shows of opulent pageantry and further bloating an already overblown civil service with “their people”. There are plenty of issues to choose from...