Is this the end of dgħajsa tal-pass? Barklori defy ban to work Sliema route

Gerald Camilleri (nset) and his 150-year-old dgħajsa, with the catamaran ferry in the background.

Gerald Camilleri, best known as id-Dajdu, has fond childhood memories of his father sailing the family’s dgħajsa tal-pass across Marsamxett Harbour, ferrying passengers between Sliema and Valletta.He would join his father on these daily trips in the traditional water taxi, a service operating in Maltese ports for over 400 years, and he would pass the...