Letters to the Editor – September 8, 2025: Valletta’s Living Room Debates Spill Onto the Page By 7 a.m. on Monday, the first bundle of Monday Times of Malta had barely landed on the doorstep of Café Cordina when the letters page was already being dissected over frothy cappuccinos. Between the clink of teaspoons and…
**From Sliema to Għarb: How Malta’s villages are re-imagining tomorrow while honouring yesterday** The 5 a.m. ferry from Gozo to Malta is still dark this time of year, yet the deck is already alive with chatter. A nurse from Xagħra heading to Mater Dei, a game-developer from Victoria clutching a laptop, and a retired fisherman…
It’s 7 a.m. on a humid July morning and the line outside the BNF branch in Paola is already curling round the corner. Pensioners clutching numbered tickets, Deliveroo riders check phones between shifts, and a young couple push a stroller while debating whether the “€5,000 quick loan” flyer they were handed at the ferry terminal…
Valletta cafés were buzzing this morning as news broke that France’s parliament is expected to topple Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in a no-confidence vote later today. For Maltese sipping their pastizzi and kafè lattes along Republic Street, the unfolding drama in Paris feels both distant and oddly familiar—another European capital wrestling with the same question…
Valletta’s narrow limestone streets echoed with whispers rather than the usual midday chatter yesterday, as a Maltese investment firm that vanished from public view twelve months ago suddenly resurfaced. The company—widely known on the island for bank-rolling glitzy St Julian’s rooftop bars and the long-awaited Gozo marina extension—has until 30 June to repay a €2…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour was once the last friendly port for refugees seeking Europe’s safety; this weekend, its sister harbour in Sfax, Tunisia, echoed that role in reverse. More than 1,000 Tunisians lined the stone quays at dawn on Saturday, waving Palestinian flags and hoisting baskets of dates, to welcome two small wooden trawlers limping in…
FREE MAGAZINE WITH ‘THE SUNDAY TIMES’: THE MALTESE WEEKEND RITUAL THAT BINDS A NATION Every Sunday at dawn, the familiar thud of the newspaper bundle hits the doorstep from Żurrieq to St Julian’s, heralding more than just the week’s headlines. Nestled inside The Sunday Times of Malta is the island’s best-loved free magazine – a…
Valletta’s lunchtime hush was broken at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday by a jarring, siren-like screech that spilled from every passing phone. Tourists lining up for ftira at Is-Suq tal-Belt flinched, and elderly men playing briscola by the Triton Fountain looked up in alarm. It wasn’t an Amber Alert for a missing child in Gozo, nor…
Valletta’s balmy spring evenings usually echo with chatter about Eurovision odds or the price of pastizzi, but this week the courtyard talk at Café Cordina has taken a sharper turn. Over tiny glasses of Kinnie and shared plates of ġbejniet, Maltese citizens, diplomats and students are dissecting Israel’s blunt warning that any European recognition of…
A pall of worry settled over the usually bustling streets of Luqa yesterday afternoon when a 28-year-old motorcyclist from Qormi was rushed to Mater Dei Hospital in critical condition following a collision with a delivery van. The crash, which occurred at the notorious Triq Ħal Farruġ roundabout shortly after 3 p.m., forced police to shut…
Gozo’s Ramla l-Ħamra, the island’s russet-gold beach that once inspired Homer’s nymph Calypso, found itself at the centre of a modern-day battle last Saturday morning. At 6:43 a.m., volunteers from the local NGO Moviment Graffitti spotted a lone contractor sandblasting the façade of a private villa perched on the terraced cliffs that form part of…
Rainbow flags billowed against honey-coloured limestone as Victoria’s Pjazza Indipendenza became a sea of colour on Saturday afternoon, marking the fourth annual Gozo Pride march. More than 500 residents, weekenders from Malta, and curious tourists wound their way through the Citadel’s narrow streets, turning Gozo’s quiet capital into the loudest, proudest corner of the Maltese…
