A niche of more than one hundred and fifty-two years and a waymarker from the time of the British services were restored in a project that the Local Council of Fgura carried out after knowing how to use funds from the LESA agency.
The niche is located in Triq il-Karmnu, one of the oldest roads in Fgura and which in the past was used to go from Żabbar to Bulebel without passing through Paola.
The waymarker from the time of the British, located on the same road, is unique to Fgura and was among the many that the British services had made in the area as a demarcation line between the farmers’ fields and the areas that were in the hands of the British services.
The Local Council of Fgura restored this waymarker, moved it by a few meters, and did it in a safer place and on a new base specifically so that it would not be damaged by vehicles that sometimes collided with it.
During a short ceremony, the Minister for the Interior, Security and Work Byron Camilleri praised the work of the Fgura Council which knew how to make use of these funds in order to strengthen the historical heritage, in a locality quite modern and one of the largest residential centers in Malta. He said that the funds that the LESA agency returned from the summonses for projects in the heart of the Maltese and Gozitan communities gave a boost to similar projects carried out by the local councils.
“Our goal as a government and even as a LESA agency is to assist the local councils to carry out the projects they have designed for their community so that the residents can enjoy them. In this case the community of Fgura will enjoy directly every time it passes in front of these places and will continue to enjoy them for the time to come,” said Minister Camilleri.
For the ceremony there was also the Mayor of Fgura, Pierre Dalli and several members of the Local Council. The Mayor praised these funds that are given to the local councils so that the community can then benefit from them.
