Your correspondent Marshall Dixon (“It is now or never”, TMIS, 2 September) was surprised to find the hall at the MEPA Ta’ Cenc meeting on 21 August packed with Gozitans, most of whom were openly expressing their full support to the project. In an earlier paragraph he wrote that he has got to know the Gozitans quite well over the years.

He has obviously not realised (see other reports of the meeting in other newspapers) that most of those Gozitans present were employees of the Ta’ Cenc owner and that they would of course be vociferous in their approval – nobody is going to bite the hand that feeds him.

Maybe Mr Dixon should live a few more decades in Gozo before presuming to “know the Gozitans quite well”.

Stephen Vassallo

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