Din l-Art Helwa’s latest restoration project is the conservation and restoration of the monument of Queen Victoria in Valletta, located in the prominent and popular square in front of the national library in Valletta.The statue was erected in 1891 and is the work of the Sicilian sculptor Giuseppe Valenti.The statue and the pedestal are executed in white marble, while the...
Maltatoday, 17 February 2010, by James Debono Any possible benefits which could arise from removal of the existing Ghadira road are “more than nullified” by negative impacts on the natural heritage, a report by MEPA’s Natural Heritage Panel (NHAC) says. The claim that re-routing the road would lead to the regeneration of the sand dunes still needs to be subjected to further...
Times of Malta 23 January 2010, by Kurt Sansone – The controversial Għadira road project may have been temporarily shelved but the environmental studies on the government’s four applications are expected to continue. The Malta Environment and Planning Authroity is preparing the guidelines for the environment impact assessment on the proposed re-routing or upgrading of the existing road and is asking the public to...
Times of Malta, 31st October 2009, by Kurt Sansone The controversial plan to build a road in Għadira has been shelved for now and the EU funds earmarked for the project will be redirected towards the construction of a new junction at Kappara, the Transport Minister said yesterday. Austin Gatt complained about the planning authority’s procrastination in issuing the terms of reference...
Press Release 14 October 2009 Environmental NGOs Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Nature Trust Malta, Ramblers Association of Malta, Din l-Art Helwa, Friends of the Earth Malta, GAIA Foundation, and BirdLife Malta will be lodging a formal complaint to the EU, if MEPA fails to refuse the proposed TEN-T Ghadira road project. The Ten-T Ghadira road project is being proposed by the ADT based on the...
Times of Malta, 17 February 2009 The government has no intention of breaking the law on the proposed Għadira road, an application for which is being finalised by the Malta Transport Authority, the transport ministry said yesterday. The ministry was replying to a statement issued by Labour MEP Louis Grech, whom it accused of wrongly concluding that the European Commission was in...
Times of Malta, 2nd December 2008 BirdLife and Din l-Art Ħelwa insisted yesterday that contrary to claims by the Transport Minister, the proposed Għadira road will cut through Mellieha’s Foresta 2000 site. Birdlife director Tolga Temuge said Minister Austin Gatt’s statements show that his understanding of the area is that it simply involves tree planting whereas in actual fact it is a...
Press Release, 1st December 2008 Foresta 2000 project partners BirdLife Malta and Din l-Art Helwa today confirmed that the TEN-T road project in Ghadira would cut through Phases 2 and 3 of the Foresta site, contrary to Minister Gatt’s claims. BirdLife and Din l-Art Helwa today revealed a map showing the boundaries of the Foresta 2000 site. The proposed road cuts through Phases 2...
Maltatoday.com 29 November 2008 Alternattiva Demokratika (AD) Chairperson Arnold Cassola announced that German Green MEP Michael Cramer, who was a specialist on transport issues and sat on the Transport Committee of the European Parliament (EP), would be in Malta next week to discuss the issue of the proposed road in Ghadira with Transport Minister Austin Gatt. Cassola said: “Since it is planned...
