Why Malta must strengthen education beyond bricks and stipends Education has long been one of Malta’s most important national investments. Our policy discourse on the issue has, for many years, targeted stipends, schools and the physical infrastructure that enables learning. These elements are crucial, stipends widen access, and modern school facilities improve safety and engagement. Yet globally, education systems are undergoing a transformation that demands more than struct

On this day, Maltese television became the stage for one of the most emblematic episodes of the Nationalist Party’s internal crisis during the final years of the Gonzi administration. A live discussion on Bondiplus , hosted by Lou Bondi, featured PN backbencher Franco Debono at a time when the government’s one-seat parliamentary majority had rendered every dissenting voice politically consequential. The context was already charged. The background was a government operating wi

In January 1941, Malta crossed an invisible threshold. The island had been at war since September 1939, but until then conflict had felt abstract, distant, filtered through radio bulletins and distant fronts. Even after Italy entered the war in June 1940 and air raid sirens sounded for the first time, the sense persisted that Malta was suffering harassment rather than existential threat. The events that became known as the Illustrious Blitz ended that illusion. By late 1940,

L-Istrina is one of Malta’s key national charity events. Since 2021, donations have stagnated despite strong economic growth, raising concerns about declining generosity. The evidence suggests otherwise. Donations track household sentiment, especially food inflation and consumer confidence. When living costs rise, people still give, but less.

Il-Bandiera tal-Maltin was first published on 8 January 1898, as Manuel Dimech used journalism to challenge colonial power, clerical authority, and social injustice.

William Savona, first president of the Labour Party, shaped Malta’s early workers’ movement, linking military service, social reform, & labour politics in the 1920s.

Tessie Camilleri was Malta’s first female university graduate. Born in 1901, her life marks a turning point in women’s access to higher education in Malta.

On 5 January 1902, a Maltese courtroom became the unlikely stage for a constitutional confrontation between colonial authority and cultural nationalism. However one would expect that the debucle would be over a legislation or taxation. No, this debate was about a song. More precisely, a newly composed Innu Malti that the British administration feared would turn a night at the theatre into a political act.

On 4 January 1927, a trademark linked to The Coca-Cola Company was registered in Malta. The mark, later catalogued as TM1915, covered mineral water, aerated water, soft drinks, and ginger beer. Nearly a century later, it remains valid.

Malta is set to triple its nightly eco-contribution for tourists from €0.50 to €1.50 per person. This is the first increase since the tax was introduced in 2016, when it was capped at €5 per stay and expected to raise about €6 million a year.  With tourism now at record levels, government says the higher fee will fund infrastructure and environmental improvements in tourism hotspots. Is this too much? Or perhaps too little?