**Cocaine, Chaos and Claims of Divinity: How One Man’s Rampage is Forcing Malta to Confront Its Drug Demons** A 34-year-old Birkirkara man’s weekend cocaine-fuelled assault on his own mother—interrupted only to announce that “God told me to sniff”—has ripped open a very Maltese wound: the island’s ballooning recreational drug scene and the families caught in…
A 34-year-old man from Żebbuġ is facing arraignment after police seized more than €10,000 worth of suspected cocaine and cannabis in a dawn raid on a Ta’ Qali garage used by weekend farmers and motocross enthusiasts. The arrest, carried out by the Drug Squad on Tuesday, marks the third high-profile bust in the central-western district…
**Year 7-9 Students to Receive Laptops and Digital Resources in Major Education Overhaul** In a landmark move that promises to reshape Malta’s educational landscape, the government has announced that all Year 7 to Year 9 students will receive personal laptops and access to comprehensive digital learning resources. This ambitious initiative, unveiled by Education Minister Clifton…
**Motorcyclist Fighting for Life After Cospicua Collision as Three-Cornered Village Reels** A 27-year-old motorcyclist from Żabbar is in critical condition at Mater Dei Hospital after a horrific crash on Triq il-Wied in Cospicua late Monday evening, plunging the tight-knit Three Cities community into shock and reigniting calls for safer streets in Malta’s historic dockyard towns….
**MTA Launches Second Edition of Malta Tourism Awards: Celebrating the Islanders Who Welcome the World** Valletta’s Grandmaster’s Palace buzzed with more than the usual tourist chatter yesterday as the Malta Tourism Authority (MTA) unveiled the second edition of the Malta Tourism Awards, an initiative that locals are already calling “the Oscars of the hospitable island.”…
**France’s Palestinian Flag Ban Sparks Debate in Malta: A Mediterranean Mirror on Free Speech** Valletta’s balconies were fluttering with tricolours last June when Malta celebrated Freedom Day, but imagine if the government had told mayors to pull them down. That scenario—unthinkable here—has just played out in France, where Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin warned local councils…
Under the honey-coloured limestone of Rome’s Pantheon—still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome after 1,900 years—Joseph Calleja’s tenor soared through the oculus and into the Maltese night sky beamed live to Valletta. On the eve of Malta’s 59th Independence anniversary, the Mdina-born artist swapped the familiar stage of the Granaries for the ancient Roman temple,…
Valletta’s open-air piazzas may feel a world away from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but when ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night segment last week after pressure from the White House, Maltese stand-up comics felt the chill all the same. “If a superstar like Kimmel can be muzzled, what hope do we have in a country…
# Joseph Calleja’s Voice Fills the Pantheon as Malta Rings in 61 Years of Independence Valletta’s skyline shimmered under a late-summer haze on Friday night, but every eye inside the Mediterranean Conference Centre’s historic Patheon dome was fixed on one man: Joseph Calleja. The world-renowned tenor stepped onto the temporary stage shortly after 9 p.m.,…
**London Fashion Week hopes to usher in new era with leadership change** As London Fashion Week kicks off this weekend, the global style capital is quietly undergoing its most dramatic transformation in decades – and Malta’s tight-knit fashion community is watching with bated breath. With Caroline Rush stepping down as CEO of the British Fashion…
**When Should Maltese Kids Pick Up Their First Instrument?** *From zaqq parties to ZfinMalta rehearsals, the island’s soundtrack starts early—here’s when to press play on formal lessons.* Ħamrun mother-of-three Claire Pace still laughs at the video: her four-year-old son Luke thumping on a toy kazoo while his nanna belted out *“Viva l-Malti”* at a village…
Valletta’s open-air Pjazza Teatru Rjal will echo with glitchy beats and Slavic fairy-tale whispers next Friday when Baddie – the Warsaw-born art-pop phenomenon dubbed “the Polish Björk” – lands on the island for her long-awaited Malta debut. For a capital that has spent the winter debating cruise-ship caps and pavement licenses, the arrival of a…
