“We are living in heaven, even at this moment,” Robert Abela claimed a few months ago, “and this is because of the decisions we took.”
An Italian contractor entrusted with the reconstruction of the main road in Iklin faced staff shortages due to COVID-19, resulting in a six-week delay, but the project is now expected to be completed by the first week of June, an Infrastructure Malta spokesman has said.
A first coat of tarmac was laid last week, enabling the temporary partial reopening of the road, but sections of the tarmac started coming off quickly with use, to the chagrin of residents and road users.
Works on 1km arterial road between Naxxar and Iklin hit problems during the second wave of the pandemic when the contractor had a number of employees in mandatory quarantine or self-isolation.