From the honey-coloured bastions of Valletta to the narrow, sun-bleached alleys of Mdina, talk of a “special tribunal for Ukraine” is no longer a distant diplomatic echo. Over cups of strong Maltese tea at Café Cordina and on the shaded benches of Upper Barrakka Gardens, islanders are weighing the implications of a proposed international court…
Feast, Fireworks & Future-Proofing: What September 8, 2025 Means for Malta Today Valletta’s Grand Harbour woke up to the scent of incense and burnt gun-powder yesterday, as the twin calendars of faith and nation collided on one date. September 8—Victory Day, the Nativity of Our Lady, and the commemoration of the Great Siege of 1565—was…
Alex Borg enters the record books: How a quiet Qormi boy rewrote Maltese sporting history By Luke Vella The bells of St George’s basilica were still echoing across Qormi’s narrow alleys when news broke that Alex Borg had done it. At 32, the soft-spoken cueist who grew up practising on a second-hand table wedged between…
Pharmacies open today – September 8, 2025 The first Monday after the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady is traditionally a day when Malta exhales. The village marches are over, the ħobż biż-żejt has been devoured, and the last petard has echoed off honey-coloured limestone. Yet life must go on. This morning, as the…
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…
