A single-cylinder’s dying whine echoed off Bormla’s honey-coloured limestone at 06:43 yesterday, replacing the usual clatter of delivery vans with the kind of silence that makes grandmothers reach for their rosaries. A 27-year-old motorcyclist from Żabbar, known to neighbours as “il-Pupa” for his bright red Kawasaki, lay crumpled at the foot of St. Margaret’s bastion…
**In pictures: Pilgrims ride to Żabbar on feast of Our Lady of Graces** The narrow country lanes of Malta’s southeast came alive yesterday with the thunderous rumble of motorcycle engines as thousands of bikers converged on Żabbar for one of the island’s most unique religious traditions. The annual motorcycle pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our…
A 28-year-old Birkirkara man was hauled before a magistrate yesterday after police linked him to a six-month spree of motorcycle thefts that has left riders from Valletta to Mellieħa checking their locks twice before bed. The suspect, whose name is under a court-issued publication ban, was arrested during a dawn raid on a Qormi garage…
