Letters to the editor - February 7, 2023
Already 33 years late A few days ago, one of my grandchildren was rummaging through a pile of his mother’s school magazines. At one point he picked up one and tossed it aside, so I asked to have a look at it. It was Lo Stivale (published by the division of education for students studying Italian). This April 1990 issue carried a letter titled Come Tutelare la Laguna Blu di Comino (How to protect Comino’s Blue Lagoon) by an Amanda Caruana (an 18-year-old then attending the G.F. Abela New Lyceum). She listed, deliberately, a few not-so-novel suggestions and closed her letter with “To us 18-year-olds, implementing such a plan seems simple enough, yet it is continuously being postponed. Apparently to older people even the easy seems impossible.” Thirty-three years later we see Caruana’s fears confirmed. Comino’s problems are, in fact, now far greater and worse, much worse; and the new project threatens to deal that haven of peace the coup de grace. Faced with the power of wealthy entrepreneurs and the strong backing afforded to them by the government, many seem to have given up hope. It’s time that we Maltese realised that politicians are as strong as we let them be. Comino’s Blue...