During a visit to Gozo on Saturday 18th May, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat inaugurated the new offices of the Xewkija Local Council which are located in Triq Santa Katerina.

The Prime Minister stated that the new offices have now been made more accessible to everyone and is part of a programme of work in the locality, including the regeneration of the square. Also present for the ceremony was the Minister for Gozo Justyne Caruana, who remarked that the Local Council now has a central office from which it can operate. The Mayor Paul Azzopardi insisted that the work undertaken by the Local Council has no political colour and is carried for the benefit of the whole locality.