What's happening, Malta to your children? They have everything and yet they're not happy. Or at least many of them. 

The country is awash with drugs and has been so for quite some time. It used to be restricted to some parties, then to concerts. Now it has become mainstream and is taking over the festa band marches culture.

The prime minister does not seem to agree with any negative appreciation of the country. As proof he brought up how many boats are being purchased.

He would, won't he? Then he jetted off to join Macron celebrate his last Bastille Day together with the movers and shakers of the world. 

There are still some traces of the French occupation of Malta but you have to know where to find them - a much-faded street sign facing the Biblioteca and some damaged coats of arms on some churches and palaces. Otherwise the short French interlude left just two additions to the national language - Bongu and Bonswa.

Not really. And the end of a knightly regime that had become an anachronism, the end of the Inquisition and its power and the beginning of a path to intellectual freedom for a university but which soon slipped back to the the habits and vices of old.

Robert Abela was widely derided for his "We have never had it so good" assertion as people struggled in the traffic jams stuck in the heat, (with the Minister for Traffic Jams being the only one not to notice them), the construction craze all over the island, the crowds of holidaymakers on Comino and everywhere, the same crowds high on drugs or drink coming back to their bnbs to disturb the quiet residential areas, the prices going up everywhere with the EU piling on pressure with additional charges - want more, Abela?

Malta is awash with drugs. We even had drugs kept for safe-keeping by the court and stolen from under its nose from the army base which was supposed to be guarding them. How have we forgotten all about this?

Fortunately for us there are some parents who have opened their eyes and keep trying to protect their children from the destruction caused by drugs and excess not just in Malta. 

It's hard, very hard, being parents in this Malta.

Cries for help must be addressed better. We have all been guilty of not responding adequately. But those crying for help must not assume help will come and in time.

Note of history

The Islandscape of the Megalithic Temple Structures of Prehistoric Malta

Tore Lomsdalen 

The exploration of the Mediterranean seascape goes back to the foragers of the early Holocene period around the ninth millennium BCE.

However there is no secure evidence of human settlement in the Maltese Archipelago before the end of the sixth millennium BCE.

Approximately one thousand years later, the unique style of megalithic structures that later became known as the Temple Period commenced. 

This period lasted another millennium, then suddenly halted for no apparent reason, leaving no further trace than the monuments themselves.

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