As an avid reader of your daily I found that your Thursday 26 January issue, falling on the date celebrated by Catholics as the conversion of St. Paul, had in its local news section two items side by side which I would like to link. 

Wirt Ghawdex announced that it was holding a talk on the clash of civilistions at the medieval St Cecilia chapel it has just restored thanks to funding from Eco-Gozo run by the Ministry of Gozo.

This was a worthwhile initiative which is giving good results to be enjoyed by Gozitans, Maltese and visitors alike. On the same page the Foreign Ministry gave out the list of the projects it has financed from this year’s Overseas Development Aid budget, including the building of a sports stadium in Honduras. And this while another worthwhile NGO, namely the Friends of the Sick and the Elderly in Gozo, for the fourth consecutive year has not benefitted one cent from the Community Chest Fund to purchase much needed equipment to help sick and elderly in the community who have no one else to turn to as they might not qualify for certain services for one reason or another.

This organization does sterling work on this island beset by double (or triple?) insularity. This shameful occurrence ties in tidily with the heading of one of your leading articles in the same issue ‘The haves and the have-nots’.

G. Bonett

Marsalforn