Breaking away from the marking system he has used while visiting localities in which local elections are to take place, Labour leader Dr Alfred Sant yesterday did not provide the much-awaited statistics about the Nationalist-led councils of Siggiewi and Safi.

At Siggiewi, Dr Sant said the Nationalist Party six years ago had promised a day centre for the elderly, while the Nationalist mayor wanted work to start during the last three years. However, the day centre was never built, even though plans have been drawn up.

The PN councillors, said the MLP leader, have failed to implement their promises of more recreational spaces for the family and a tennis court and a five-a-side football pitch near the existing football pitch. He also commented about the council’s failed maintenance for a playing field in Nikola Zammit Street.

Dr Sant said the council had only succeeded in embellishing the Ghar Lapsi Park, an initiative encouraged by Labour councillors, he said. However a public convenience and a camping site proposed for the area were never built.

The Opposition leader criticised the pavements in the locality, saying that 85 per cent were in a bad state.

A Labour-led council, said Dr Sant, would devise a programme of road resurfacing and replacement of pavements while making pressure on the government to repair roads which fell under its remit and build a day care centre for the elderly.

MLP councillors would also take on the embellishment of the Nikola Zammit Street playing field and upgrade the local library.

At Safi, Dr Sant said MLP councillors would embellish areas near a housing estate, which have been left derelict in recent years, and insist with the central administration on adorning the Karwija Street central strip and opening a bypass at Kuccard Street.

Labour councillors promised better traffic management, an internet centre, closed circuit cameras in order to apprehend vandals and more investment in the neighbourhood watch scheme.

Dr Sant also promised that councillors would upgrade the local library and install new synthetic turf at the football pitch.