Drydocks sandblasting leads to more black dust

In a number of letters sent to the weekly newspaper Illum, Bormla residents expressed their ire and frustration at the situation. One long-term resident said she was "determined to fight for her health."

“We have been putting up with black dust for 10 years,” she said, “and now do we have to put up with sand blasting too?”

Illum reports how, for the past two weeks, the resident woke up every morning to a roof and washroom liberally covered in black dust that finds its way in between tiles and into the rest of the house.