A 34-year-old Ghanaian national has been handed a six-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to operating as an unlicensed taxi driver in Malta for over half a year – a case that has reignited debate over the island’s booming but increasingly crowded ride-hailing scene. Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit heard how Joseph Mensah* cruised Sliema, St…
Adrian Delia deletes ‘racist’ post, claiming he was misinterpreted: how a midnight meme lit Malta’s internet on fire By 2 a.m. on Tuesday, the WhatsApp forwards had already reached Gozo. A grainy screen-grab—Nationalist MP Adrian Delia sharing a Facebook meme that juxtaposed a photo of a crowded Ħamrun street with the caption “Is this Malta…
**Watch: Von der Leyen gives her 2025 State of the Union speech – What it means for Malta** As Ursula von der Leyen took to the European Parliament podium on Wednesday morning to deliver her fifth State of the Union address, Maltese eyes were fixed on Brussels with more than casual curiosity. The Commission President’s…
Valletta – A 34-year-old Maltese national has been handed a six-month effective jail term after admitting he used a forged French passport to try to slip out of Malta undetected, reigniting debate on how far islanders will go to sidestep Schengen visa rules and reach the continent. Magistrate Natasha Sciberras heard how Kurt Micallef, unemployed…
Israel’s vow to hit Gaza City “with great force” has jolted even this sun-drenched island 1,800 kilometres away. On Tuesday morning, as café regulars in Valletta sipped their ħobż-bi-żejt and argued about last night’s football, Telegram pings carried images of flattened apartment blocks and frantic rescuers. By evening, the chatter on Facebook groups like “Maltese…
A quiet revolution is unfolding across Malta, one that has nothing to do with politics, property prices, or party colours. It is happening in the paella-scented courtyard of a Valletta community centre where Syrian grandmothers swap cumin-laden recipes with Maltese nannas, in the football cages of Gżira where kids of 15 nationalities cheer each other…
Language, Deep Listening and the Need for a New Maltese Mythos By Lara Pace, Valletta On any given evening in Strait Street, the chatter ricochets from Maltese to English, with sudden detours into Italian, French and the occasional Arabic greeting. Tourists hear music; locals hear history. Yet beneath the polyglot surface, something subtler is happening:…
# Horror in Nigeria: 55 Resettled Families Massacred by Jihadists – Why Malta Should Care The Mediterranean sun was still rising over Valletta’s honey-stoned bastions on Monday when news broke that 55 internally displaced Nigerians—people who had already fled Boko Haram once—were slaughtered in their sleep by jihadists who stormed a government-backed resettlement camp in…
Maltese most likely to believe their country would benefit from EU enlargement – and they’re not shy about saying it Walk past any kazin in Birkirkara at sunset and you’ll hear the same spirited debate that’s been echoing across the islands since 2004: “Kemm se jkun ahjar Malta b’aktar pajjiżi fil-UE?” According to the latest…
“YOU’RE JUST A FOREIGNER” – CAB DRIVER RECOUNTS THREATS FROM MALTESE PASSENGER ————————————————————————– It started like any other Friday night outside St Julian’s Bay. At 1:47 a.m., 34-year-old Nigerian-born driver *Emeka* flicked on his green taxi light and waited for the passenger who had just pinged the app. Within minutes, a man in a red…
“Exploitation of migrants is the rule, not the exception” – JRS report lays bare Malta’s open secret By the time the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) launched its 42-page dossier at the Ħamrun parish hall last night, the room was already thick with stories: a Bangladeshi kitchen-hand who hasn’t seen a payslip in 18 months, a…
Rare Egyptian Vulture Bids Malta Goodbye After Three Days of Sky-High Drama By Hot Malta Newsroom • 14 June 2024 The limestone bastions of Valletta were still catching the first gold of dawn when BirdLife Malta’s conservation team let out a collective cheer: the satellite dot representing “EV-214” – a two-year-old Egyptian Vulture affectionately nicknamed…
