**Cyber sentinels land in Valletta: Shield NxG seminar promises to turn cafés into classrooms and grandmothers into gatekeepers** Malta’s limestone balconies have seen Phoenicians, Knights and NATO radars, but this Friday they will frame something new: a three-day cybersecurity road-show that wants to turn the entire archipelago into a living lab for digital self-defence. Shield…
Decomposing Horse and Neglected Sheep Discovered in Gozo Field: A Wake-Up Call for Malta’s Agricultural Heritage Gozo’s quiet countryside was jolted yesterday morning when a passer-by noticed a putrid smell drifting from an unattended field near Xewkija. Peering over a low rubble wall, the witness saw the bloated carcass of a horse, ribs protruding through…
Village brass bands strike up a triumphant march at 7:30 a.m., fireworks crackle over Gozo’s earliest light, and the scent of freshly baked qagħaq tal-ħmira drifts through Xagħra’s narrow alleys. In an instant, the island’s second-largest village wakes up to its most cherished day: the feast of Jesus the Nazarene, a celebration that blends Mediterranean…
**Bells Ring Again: 61,000 Maltese Students Return to Classrooms in Traditional September Rush** The familiar chorus of school bells echoed across Malta and Gozo this morning as over 61,000 students streamed through school gates, marking the official start of the 2024-2025 academic year. From the historic streets of Valletta to the quiet villages of Gozo,…
**Elderly Gozitan Grandmother Fighting for Life After Victoria Crash Sparks Island-Wide Safety Outcry** A 78-year-old Gozitan grandmother remains in critical condition at Mater Dei Hospital after being struck by a delivery van on Victoria’s main thoroughfare Tuesday morning, reigniting fierce debate about pedestrian safety in Malta’s sleepy sister island where “everyone knows everyone” and such…
**Momentum challenges Alex Borg to lead protest against Xlendi high-rise** The battle for Gozo’s soul has a new protagonist. Environmental NGO Momentum has thrown down the gauntlet to Alex Borg—developer-turned-viral-activist—demanding he swap blueprints for banners and march with them against the 10-storey hotel looming over Xlendi Bay. “Mr Borg loves to tweet about ‘protecting the…
**Watch: Flooding in several localities as heavy rain hits Gozo amid thunderstorm** Gozo’s streets turned into rivers on Tuesday afternoon as a violent thunderstorm dumped torrential rain across the sister island, flooding homes, paralysing traffic and turning the usually serene villages into scenes of chaos. Videos circulating on social media show water gushing down the…
Valletta’s Republic Street was already humming with early-morning shoppers when the bronze bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral tolled nine times and the first of three government press conferences kicked off on 25 September 2025. By the time the last microphone clicked off at 6 p.m., the island had been handed a reshuffle of policies that…
Watch: Flooding in several localities as heavy rain hits Gozo ================================================————- Victoria’s stone-paved It-Tokk woke up looking more like Venice this morning after an overnight cloudburst dumped a month’s worth of rain onto Gozo in less than six hours. Videos shot by residents show water gushing down Republic Street, swirling round the bronze statue of…
Victoria’s narrow alleys became rushing rivers, farm-to-table fields turned into mirror-flat lakes, and the centuries-old stone balconies of the Citadel dripped like wet sponges as a violent cloudburst parked itself over Gozo on Tuesday afternoon. Within 90 minutes the island received 42 mm of rain—roughly half its monthly October average—sending tourists scurrying into baroque doorways,…
**‘She was left to drown’: Maltese NGOs demand court trauma training after magistrate berates domestic-violence survivor** A coalition of Maltese women’s shelters, lawyers and psychologists is demanding mandatory trauma-informed training for every magistrate, police officer and court official after a Gozo magistrate last week scolded a domestic-violence victim for “crying too much” and “wasting the…
Watch: Objectors in uproar after Xlendi developers fail to show up for meeting By our staff reporter Gozitans packed the Xlendi parish hall last night expecting a long-promised explanation of how a boutique hotel could legally sprout nine storeys above the village’s skyline. Instead they found an empty table, two folded placards bearing the project’s…
