Gem in Malta: Transportation Strike Causing Missed Excursions and Havoc on the Island

[ktpc2005]

Malta is now in its fourth day of a very bad transportation strike that has had violent incidents, forced traffic jams, threats to destroy ferries, and public transportation to come to a halt.

 

The Gem was mentioned in an article from Tuesday...

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=72321

 

Today's article..

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=72360

 

Anyone traveling next week might want to keep up on this....

 

Also this week's reviews might be interesting.....

[ktpc2005]

The strike is now over.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080717/local/agreement-reached-in-transport-dispute

[sjbdtz]

Wow....that was fast! ;)

[catilona]

being a maltese and living in Malta I can confirm that the transport dispute has now been resolved.

 

Hope everyone can enjoy our beautiful sunny island :)