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?

Ġużepp Cauchi, known in Għarb as Ta’ Neriku, was born on 3 January 1910. He would later become one of the lesser-known Gozitan names tied to the Second World War, not through the bombing of Malta itself, but through a grim chain of events that took him from Gozo to Australia, then to Greece, and finally to a Nazi camp outside Berlin. Cauchi left Gozo as a teenager, emigrating to Australia in 1926, part of a broader pattern of Maltese and Gozitan migration in search of work a

On 2 January 2022, Paulina Dembska, a 29 year old Polish national living in Malta, was killed in Independence Gardens, Sliema. A man, Abner Aquilina, was later charged with her rape and murder. The killing, which took place in a public space in the early hours of the morning, shocked the country and quickly became one of the most closely followed criminal cases in recent Maltese history.

At midnight on 1 January 2008 , the Maltese lira officially ceased to be the country’s currency, replaced by the euro after more than three decades as the unit of an independent state. The moment was marked by a simple withdrawal of the first euro banknotes from an ATM in Valletta. Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech and Central Bank Governor Michael C. Bonello were among those present as Malta crossed the threshold into the euro area. The three were

The bottom line is simpler than the politics makes it sound. The “My Voice, My Choice” vote does not introduce abortion in Malta, and it does not create a fund today. It strengthens the political push for an EU-level financing mechanism that could reduce the cost of travel-based access for people in restrictive Member States, including Malta. Whether Maltese residents could benefit even if Malta opts out depends on whether the final design funds providers directly, or channel

STRASBOURG. Irma Dimitradze came to the European Parliament to speak for someone who could not. Dimitradze, a Georgian journalist from Batumelebi, represented her imprisoned colleague Mzia Amaglobeli at the Sakharov Prize ceremony. The prize is designed to spotlight freedom of thought. In Georgia’s current climate, that spotlight functions as both protection and provocation. Amaglobeli’s detention has become part of a wider argument about whether Georgia is moving closer to E