On a sticky August night in Valletta, the bronze doors of the Manoel Theatre creak open and the crowd that spills onto Strait Street is humming the same chorus: “Għanja ta’ l-Arġent”, but not the 1970s original by Enzo Gusman. Tonight it’s Nadine Axisa’s stripped-down jazz trio version, slowed to a crawl, her voice brushing…
Maltese fishermen have always joked that the sea owns half our calendar—feast days, football finals, even weddings get planned around wind patterns and moon tides. Yesterday afternoon that old adage proved itself in the most dramatic way when a Marsascala trawler, the “Santa Katarina”, began taking on water five nautical miles south-east of St Thomas…
Fort Binġemma – what next? Locals demand a future worthy of Mellieħa’s silent sentinel From the ridge above Għajn Tuffieħa, the honey-coloured limestone of Fort Binġemma glows every sunset like a half-remembered promise. Built by the British in the 1870s to deter an Italian invasion that never came, the fort has spent most of its…
