**Primary School Student Living in a Garage: The Hidden Reality and Community Impact in Malta** In a country known for its vibrant culture, rich history, and stunning architecture, it’s easy to overlook the less visible struggles that some Maltese families face. Recently, a heart-wrenching story has emerged from within our own communities, revealing the harsh…
Valletta’s Grandmaster’s Palace balcony was still in morning shadow when Prime Minister Robert Abela stepped up to the microphone just after 9 a.m. on Friday, 20 September 2025. Below him, a restless crowd of students still clutching their ħobż biż-żejt breakfast wraps, pensioners fanning themselves with yesterday’s Times of Malta, and tourists who’d wandered over…
St Julian’s on a Friday night feels like a campus that has spilled out of its lecture halls. Cocktails slosh in plastic cups on the steps of Love Monument, Arabic mingles with Italian over shisha smoke, and a hen-party from Leeds negotiates the zebra crossing while a Maltese nanna watches from her doorway, plastic church…
Floriana’s Independence Arena was already humming by 07:30 this morning as Prime Minister Roberta Metsola stepped up to the microphone and declared 15 September 2025 “a hinge day for the Maltese decade”. In a 23-minute address—streamed live on every bus-stop screen from Valletta to Gozo—she unveiled a triple package that will redraw the archipelago’s social…
€25,000 licence surrender scheme planned for ‘coming weeks’ ————————————————————- Valletta – In a move that could redraw the island’s hospitality map, Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo has announced a €25,000 cash-for-licence scheme aimed at persuading small hotel and guest-house owners to permanently close shop. The voluntary buy-out, which opens “in the coming weeks”, targets 1,000-odd micro-properties…
Can One Pay Packet Still Keep a Maltese Roof Over Your Head? The reality of single-income living in 2024 By Kristina Zammit VALLETTA – On the surface, Malta’s job market is booming. Unemployment is stuck at a historic 3 %, cranes puncture every skyline and recruiters still plaster bus stops with “Urgently Needed” stickers. Yet…
From the honey-coloured streets of Valletta to the ever-expanding skyline of St Julian’s, Malta has always been a place where old stone and fresh concrete jostle for space. Yet in the past decade the building boom has left more than just cranes on the horizon; it has littered the islands with half-finished shells—ghosts of apartments,…
