**Autumn’s First Drops: Malta Braces for Isolated Showers as Island Culture Shifts Gear** Valletta’s limestone balconies, bleached honey-gold after a long, rainless summer, may finally get their first rinse of the season. The Malta Meteorological Office has issued a low-key but culturally seismic forecast: isolated showers could drift across the archipelago from Wednesday, signalling the…
**Five-Year Sentence for Pipe-Wielding Cab Robber Sparks Debate on Valletta Night Safety** A 34-year-old man has been jailed for five years after holding up a taxi driver with nothing more than a crack pipe, in a case that has reignited worries over late-night security in Malta’s capital and the vulnerability of the island’s 24-hour cab…
**Isolated Showers Expected to Begin on Wednesday: A Maltese Spring Awakening** As the Maltese archipelago prepares to welcome its first spring showers this Wednesday, locals are experiencing that familiar mix of relief and resignation that comes with the island’s transitional weather. After weeks of unseasonably dry conditions that have left farmers anxiously scanning cloudless skies,…
Fort Binġemma officially handed over to Xjenza Malta in landmark deal ======================================================================= Rabat’s 19th-century hill-top stronghold will be transformed into a living science hub, promising stargazing, night walks and “no laser tag”. After three years of negotiations, paperwork and community consultations, the 130-year-old Fort Binġemma was officially transferred from the Lands Authority to Xjenza Malta…
Valletta’s Republic Street is not where you’d expect to see children shrieking with delight over liquid-nitrogen ice-cream, or pensioners debating quantum dots with PhD students. Yet every last Friday of September the capital morphs into an open-air laboratory for “Science in the City” – the Mediterranean’s largest research festival and Malta’s loudest statement that test…
Valletta, Friday – A small island whose very name is synonymous with the 1565 Great Siege has now pledged to shield the besieged of the 21st century. Foreign Minister Ian Borg signed Malta’s name to the “Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Aid in Conflict Zones” at a ceremony inside the Auberge de Castille, flanked…
Four-storey block across from historic chapel in Naxxar approved by PA Naxxar’s skyline is set to rise another notch after the Planning Authority green-lit a four-storey apartment block directly opposite the 17-century Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, a move that has split the tight-knit community between those hungry for new homes and guardians of the…
**Asleep at the Wheel: The €1,600 Wake-Up Call That Has Malta Talking** A 35-year-old man discovered slumped behind the wheel of a parked car in Gżira yesterday morning received a rude awakening when police found seven grams of suspected cocaine and €1,600 in cash scattered across his vehicle’s interior. The discovery, made at approximately 6:30am…
Labour MP Ramona Attard has thrown her weight behind a growing chorus demanding a national conversation on extending Malta’s maternity leave, igniting a debate that cuts to the heart of the island’s family-first identity. Speaking during a parliamentary adjournment on Monday evening, the first-time representative for District 2 urged ministers to “look parents in the…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour was still yawning itself awake on Tuesday when the news broke: Goldman Sachs Asset Management is buying a “significant” stake in Melita Limited, the island’s home-grown telecoms group that has wired (and unwired) Maltese homes since 1992. By the time the kiosks outside Castille had swapped the morning’s ħobż biż-żejt for pastizzi,…
PL Slams PN’s “Back-of-the-Envelope” Economics: “They’re Scaring Investors for Likes” by Jacob Pace Valletta – As Maltese families debate whether to splash out on a €9 ħobż biż-żejt at this weekend’s village festa or wait for supermarket prices to cool, the Labour Party has turned the spotlight on what it calls the Nationalist Party’s “catastrophic…
**Barman behind bars: Paceville nightlife worker’s bail breach exposes island’s insurance blind-spot** A 28-year-old St Julian’s barman found himself on the wrong side of the bar early Tuesday after police discovered him at the wheel of a friend’s Renault Clio—uninsured, unlicensed and in flagrant breach of a February court order forbidding him from driving anywhere…
