Before readers unfamiliar with the village politics of Marsascala buy into the words of its mayor, Mario Calleja, Mario Calleja, they should also be informed that the Local Council had enough funds to build an unnecessary administrative building in a public and open space.
In addition, the area is not being enclosed for safety reasons, it’s being enclosed to accommodate a handful of landowners in the area who have been trying to enclose the whole area since many years. These landowners mainly use these lands for hunting and trapping birds. None of them care about the state of Ri?ama battery.
The village is rife with petty rent-seeking and the mayor has facilitated its decay for a long time. Marsascala is yet to see a good and competent mayor who would do their job properly and ensure the restoration of its natural areas and historic sites. Many historical buildings have been left abandoned for years not for lack of funds, but due to outright incompetence. The mayor himself has been a major source of the village’s problems.
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