{"id":14572,"date":"2020-07-24T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/government-inaction-on-construction-reform-destroying-lives-ad-and-pd-say\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:30:00","slug":"government-inaction-on-construction-reform-destroying-lives-ad-and-pd-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/government-inaction-on-construction-reform-destroying-lives-ad-and-pd-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Government inaction on construction reform destroying lives, AD and PD say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government inaction on construction reform destroying lives, AD and PD say<\/p>\n<p>The government&rsquo;s inaction on construction reform is destroying lives, Alternattiva Demokratika and the Partit Demokratiku said in a joint statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The statement was published after yet another construction related fatality, when <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-23\/local-news\/One-person-dead-another-seriously-injured-after-wall-collapse-in-Bormla-6736225408\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Gambian worker was killed in a construction site accident on Thursday morning in Cospicua<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the unabating and uncontrolled frenzy to demolish and re-build every possible square inch, yet another person&rsquo;s life has ended in tragedy in Cospicua yesterday&rdquo;, the statement read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is evident that the new legislation enacted last year with all stakeholders of the construction industry is not worth the paper it was printed on. The system is still broken&rdquo;, the two parties said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read more: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-24\/local-news\/Nothing-has-changed-over-the-past-five-months-Miriam-Pace-s-daughter-6736225440\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&lsquo;Nothing has changed over the past five months&rsquo; &ndash; Miriam Pace&rsquo;s daughter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&ldquo;The Kamra tal-Periti was quick to release a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-23\/local-news\/Construction-industry-is-rife-with-systemic-and-fundamental-deficiencies-Chamber-of-Architects-6736225425\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">damning statement<\/a> lamenting that no or little progress has been achieved, singling out the government in particular for not honouring its written commitment to the much needed and urgent reform&rdquo;, they said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This continued failure by government will inevitably see more lives lost and families destroyed&rdquo;, they added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two parties urged the government to live up to its commitment without delay and lead the reform as formally committed to in its letter of commitment of last August.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the absence of immediate and visible progress on this front, the position of the minister in charge will no longer be tenable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-24\/local-news\/Government-inaction-on-construction-reform-destroying-lives-AD-and-PD-say-6736225447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Government inaction on construction reform destroying lives, AD and PD say<\/a><br \/>\n{$excerpt:n}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government inaction on construction reform destroying lives, AD and PD say The government&rsquo;s inaction on construction reform is destroying lives, Alternattiva Demokratika and the Partit Demokratiku said in a joint statement.&nbsp; The statement was published&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-14572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}