The island of Gozo needs an “all-encompassing” overhaul that the Labour government has failed to deliver in spite of its promises, Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg said Saturday.
Giving a list of projects that the Labour government did not deliver and was again “copying and pasting” in its 2026 election manifesto, Borg said that a PN government would not leave its pledges on paper.
Labour had failed to deliver a new law courts building, the Marsalforn breakwater, investment in the ports of Mgarr and Cirkewwa, a new hospital and parking spaces in Xlendi, Marsalforn and Victoria, Borg said. It left its road projects for the “last four weeks” before the election and had the audacity to hold a press conference saying that 60 per cent of the road to Marsalforn had been completed, Borg said.
Gozo needs heavy investment in its infrastructure, and a Nationalist government pledges to do all it takes to improve a situation which, under successive Labour governments, has deteriorated, also because capital investment on the island was reduced.
The Mgarr and Cirkewwa ports have grown too small for the demand, and before talk is made to increase the Gozo Channel fleet – the PN is promising five ships including a cargo vessel – heavy investment must be made to upgrade the facilities on either side of the channel, Borg said.
He added that the PN will also look into having a second, smaller port which gives a secondary access by sea to and from the island.
A PN government will also invest in a 400-bed hospital, parking facilities in Victoria, Xlendi and Marsalforn, and more investment in public security, he said, which includes the installation of a speed camera on the road leading to and from Mgarr Harbour.
