Marsascala primary school deadline… missed again

The Education Ministry has again failed to deliver on time on its promise to Marsascala residents to have a new primary school in place for the start of this scholastic year. The work has not been completed.
Originally, the new €5 million project was meant to be ready at the beginning of last year’s scholastic year.
After several delays to start off the project, the CEO of the Foundation for Tomorrow Schools, Mario Gafà, told the State broadcaster last February that the works on the school were at a very advanced stage and that the new facility will open its doors in September 2018.
A visit to the site by the Times of Malta yesterday showed that the new school is far from ready and the area is currently a fully-fledged building site. While the facade of parts of the new building have already been painted, other parts are still in shell form and may take several weeks, if not months, to complete.
Asked to explain why the school, in the pipeline since at least 2015, has not been delivered on time again, a spokeswoman for the Education Ministry confirmed that this was the case.

However, she insisted that “the new primary school will be ready during the scholastic year as planned…...