Efficient public transport is the backbone of a modern and competitive society. After many years of fancy old yellow and grey fuming buses cruising around the island mostly to the pleasure of tourists, the PN government has introduced a reform of public transport, not by its own will, but as usual after pressure from the…
Category: Environment
Arriva and the government
One major reason why the current government does not deserve to stay on is its total failure of delivering a modern public transport, on which commuters could rely on. Routes, timetables keep on changing, buses can not keep their schedules due to road congestions. A solution would have been to provide a free bus transport…
Local council issues at stake
Back in June 2010, I congratulated the mayor of Qormi for his disrespect shown to his co-citizens with the failure to provide participants of the feast of St George with the required public toilets. Since that time, coffins have passed through the storm water channel but these public toilets have remained closed. Actually they have…
MEPA should demolish illegal boathouses at Armier
Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party sad that MEPA should demolish illegal boathouses at Armier, and not sanction them. AD said that such a practice should be consistent with all illegal development. AD demanded the Nationalist and Labour Parties to take a stand on the issue. Carmel Cacopardo, AD Spokesman on Sustainable Development and Home…
AD calls for caution on GMOs
During a round table conference on the European Commissions’ proposals on Genetically Modified Organisims, Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party reaffirmed its position on the subject. Simon Galea, AD Spokesperson for Agriculture and Animal Welfare, said ‘Cultivation of GMOs poses a threat to biodiversity particularly through cross pollination with other non GM plants since pollination…
What is The Point?
Traffic chaos…. The opening of the new “state-of-the-art” shopping mall in Tigne has dramatically increased the traffic in Sliema making it almost impossible to access it. Finding your way between the heavy trucks, obstructing cranes, road blocks and cars makes you wish to be beamed through that area. As Alternattiva Demokratika kept on hammering over…
The government’s position against the proposal to ban international trade of bluefin tuna from next year.
It is not acceptable that the current government voted against the ban while all the other E.U. countries, including France,Spain, Greece and Italy who were initially opposed , voted in favour of the ban. Yet once more the Maltese government chose not to represent the interest of the common citizen, but to represent the interest…
Possible health threats associated with plastic
News of possible health threats associated with plastic bothered Jeanne Haegele of Chicago so much that she has quit using plastic. The 28-year-old marketing coordinator chronicles her efforts online at www.lifelessplastic.blogspot.com. “Plastic is absolutely everywhere–our food is packaged in it, our clothes are often made out of it, and even baby toys are made of plastic,”…
AD ON DISTINCTION BETWEEN PLASTIC BAGS AND BIODEGRADABLE BAGS
Alternattiva Demokratika- The Green Party disagrees with Government in treating biodegradable bags at par with non-biodegradable ones. Arnold Cassola, Alternattiva Demokratika Chairperson, stated: “Whilst we agree that plastic bags are charged an ecotax, the proceeds of which should be used for the betterment of the environment in Malta, we disagree that the said tax should…
Incinerator in Marsa
The Incinerator in Marsa, operated by Wasteserv, was recorded emitting copious amounts of dark smoke on the 17 December 2008 at 0700hrs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nx2Lw1ts-Q This is the same incinerator described by Minister George Pullicino as “[apart from being more efficient than the old St Luke’s and Gozo General Hospital incinerators] …much cleaner and would result in…