Joe Zammit Ciantar lovingly remembers his late mother and his childhood years in Gozo on Mother’s Day.
When we were still at home, my siblings and I used to call her ‘ma’, and among ourselves and cousins, we always referred to her as ‘il-mamma’ … mother.
Carmela was born on January 31, 1922 – feast of St John Bosco – and grew up in Sannat, a devotee of St Margaret, the patron saint of the village. At school she must have shown very good qualities because the ‘authorities’ used to ask her to teach what she would have learnt to a group of her school mates. And she used to love talking about it.
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Four bids have been received in answer to the request for proposals – three are for bored tunnels and the other is for an immersed structure.
Azzopardi said this alternative, submitted by the only Maltese consortium, had not been rejected because IM had been advised that restricting the proposals to bored tunnels might give rise to appeals that would delay the tendering process.
He explained that IM’s conceptual design was for a 14-kilometre horseshoe-shaped tunnel running underground and under the seabed between l-Imbordin, in St Paul’s Bay, and a road near Kenuna Tower, in Nadur.
But this was not the final design or technology – whether bored or immersed. That would only be determined once bidders who satisfied the criteria passed the first phase of the evaluation process and moved to the second phase.