Rock-cutters went into action on the site of the scheduled St George’s Barracks despite there being no final Court decision on the matter, and pleas to save the underground Cold War Bunker.
Last week several NGOs published plans (which had not been revealed in any of the studies commissioned by the applicant) of an underground Cold War bunker and made pleas to the Superintendent of Cultural Heritage for the issue of an Emergency Conservation Order. These pleas seem to have gone unnoticed as the rock cutters gouge out another part of Malta’s heritage.
It is not known what kind of monitoring is taking place to ensure that the excavations have no impact on the Grade 1 Scheduled Harq Hammiem Cave.
(Photo by Arnold Cassola)
