Aviation fuel tax The editorial on aviation fuel tax (August 20) made interesting reading but did not mention that certain islands, such as the Canary Islands in Spain, have already been exempted from this aviation fuel tax. The arguments put forward many a time that islands such as the Canary Islands and the Azores are within EU states do not hold much water as the citizens of both these islands and Malta have the same hardships and difficulties to get to mainland Europe. As far back as July 2021, the EU commissioned a report on the effects of aviation taxes on GDP of places like the Canary Islands, Malta, Crete and Ireland and Malta came out the worse off. Philip Micallef, former CEO Air Malta – Attard Light pollution Looking down from Nadur or Qala at night, one cannot but admire the almost beautiful street lighting that has spread over many parts of the island. Soft, pinkish-beige light is directed downwards and very little escapes upward to create light pollution. Well done to whoever is responsible. Then, unfortunately, there is the garish, vulgar, exaggerated and insensitive extremely bright light coming from the overlit mole in Mġarr Harbour that spoils...