**Has Your Clothing Been Produced Ethically? Malta’s Fashion Revolution Starts in Your Wardrobe** That €5 t-shirt hanging in your Sliema closet might seem like a bargain, but the real cost could be measured in someone else’s suffering. As Malta’s fashion-conscious consumers increasingly question where their clothes come from, a quiet revolution is unfolding across the…
Valletta’s evening air was thick with more than August humidity on Monday. As Parliament’s bells tolled six, a hush fell over the small crowd huddled outside the Israeli Embassy in Floriana. Candles flickered against posters that read “Għajnuna għal Gaza” – Help for Gaza – in Maltese, English and Arabic. By sunrise the vigil had…
Citizenship is not a commodity. It’s a commitment. A Maltese reflection on what it really means to belong By 8 a.m. on any given Sunday, the square outside Mosta basilica smells of incense, espresso and the last wisps of qassatat cooling in paper bags. Inside, old women recite the rosary in Maltese so thick with…
**Letters to the Editor – September 16, 2025: The Pulse of Malta Speaks** The letters page of any newspaper is often described as the nation’s diary, and this morning’s edition of the Times of Malta is no exception. As the island wakes to another golden September dawn, the voices of fishermen in Marsaxlokk, pensioners in…
Cave dig expands to learn more about hunter-gatherers —————————————————- Għar Dalam’s ancient whispers are about to get louder. This week, Heritage Malta and the University of Malta announced a three-year extension of the “First Malta” project, a €1.2 million excavation that is burrowing deeper into the island’s only known Mesolithic rock shelter. For the first…
**Are smokeless tobacco products the key to helping Malta quit cigarettes?** On any given evening in Strait Street, the scent of cigarette smoke mingles with the sea breeze as patrons spill out of bars, their glowing tips tracing conversations into the night. Yet beneath this familiar tableau, a quieter revolution is brewing: pouches of nicotine…
**Caught in the Crossfire: How ARTE’s New Iraq Documentary Resonates in Malta’s Own Backyard** *From Valletta’s historic battlements to Baghdad’s bullet-scarred boulevards, a new ARTE documentary is forcing Maltese viewers to confront the human cost of war—and to see our own island’s refugee stories with fresh eyes.* When the German-French channel ARTE dropped *Iraq in…
**Malta Watches as UK Jets Head East: A Small Island’s Big NATO Moment** Valletta’s Grand Harbour café terraces were buzzing this week with more than the usual clink of Cisk and chatter about festa fireworks. Over tiny cups of *kafè* and *pastizzi*, the talk turned eastward: British Typhoon fighters are deploying to Poland to police…
# Eurozone Rate Cut Sparks Festa-Fire Spending Surge as Malta Braces for ‘Il-Ħana’ Harvest Valletta’s cafés were buzzing louder than the brass bands of this weekend’s Żejtun festa after the European Central Bank (ECB) trimmed its deposit rate by 25 basis points to 3.5 %—the second cut in three months. For Maltese households juggling €3.20…
**Alex Borg Demands Public Inquiry into Fortina Land Transfer Scandal** Nationalist Party MP Alex Borg has thrown a political grenade into the summer lull, demanding a full public inquiry into the controversial transfer of prime Fortina seafront land to a private developer. The call comes after fresh revelations that the 2019 deal, which handed over…
**Parliament’s health chair cites role clash for calling no meetings in two years** For 24 straight months, while Maltese families debated COVID boosters, queued for cancer-screening delays and watched medical-staff strikes unfold on TV, the parliamentary committee that is supposed to scrutinise all things health has not met once. The reason, according to its own…
**A Drop of Relief: Malta’s Rainfall Shows Modest Recovery, But Farmers and Families Still Counting Every Cloud** The skies above Malta have been stingy, but not quite as cruel as last year. According to fresh data from the Meteorological Office, the islands received 486 mm of rain over the past 12 months—about 14 % below…
