Public call for Msida Creek project works to be launched soon: prime minister

A public call for works on the Msida Creek Project will be launched in a few months' time, Prime Minister Robert Abela promised on Sunday, telling supporters at the locality's Labour Party club that the place would be unrecognizable in two years' time. 
Abela was replying to questions by ONE News editor Sandro Mangion at a question and answer session. 
Last November, Infrastructure Malta published new plans for the project, which will feature a 2,200 square metre piazza in front of the parvis of St Joseph parish church, a 300-metre canal to address flooding issues and a flyover to ease traffic congestion.

“What I can say is that in a couple of years’ time, let us meet here once again and we will not even recognise the place,” Abela said. 
Low crime rate is positive, but not enough 
Asked for his reaction to the findings of a recent survey showing that the crime rate was down, Abela welcomed the results but said more must be done to prevent crime.
The figures published in the CrimeMalta Observatory Annual Crime Review showed that Malta registered the lowest crime rate in more than 15 years last year. 
Police saw a significant drop in the total number of reported crimes...