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Illum Survey: Traffic concerns at lowest level since October 2017 Those residing in the Western and Southern Harbour districts are reaping the traffic benefits of Central Link and the Marsa Flyover project 17 January 2021, 5:50pm by Nicole Meilak Between the finalisation of traffic projects and a wider shift to teleworking initiatives, traffic concerns are at its lowest levels since October 2017. This was highlighted in a survey published today by our sister newspaper Illum, and commissioned b...

Dingli residents and activists have filed paperwork seeking to save ancient trees which Infrastructure Malta intends to cut down to make way for a new road.  Around 100 people have endorsed a bid to obtain an urgent Tree Protection Order for the trees, which activists say are hundreds of years old.  In a statement on Friday, activist group Moviment Graffitti said that a nature permit to chop down these trees was issued some months ago to make way for “a highly controversial and dubious road...

Designed by Mizzi Studio, Barbajean features colorful timber doors, informal parapet steps, and midcentury-style terrazzo tiles.

“I’m barely getting any sleep…”. I guess I’d complain of insomnia, too, were a government agency to suddenly appear on my doorstep waving a piece of paper, telling me a road will be passing through my fields, through my water reservoir, through my peace of mind; through my life. This, for some families in Qormi/Mrieħel, was Christmas 2020 – if you want, a sort of sick cherry on the particularly dark cake that was last year. Instead of looking forward to some rest after another year...

Rain poured down on Malta between Friday and Saturday, yielding around five times the precipitation recorded when it last rained between January 1 and 2.  An average of 13.9mm of rain fell overnight between Friday and Saturday, with thunder and lightning making for a spectacular and wet start to the year.  It rained extremely heavily in areas such as Dingli (19.2mm), Valletta (17.4mm) and Msida (16.4mm) while others such as Selmun (5mm) and Bengħajsa (8.8mm) saw lower levels of rainfall, acc...

Hiking in Malta: 8 Bucketlist Trails to Check Out in 2021 Jump To Home » Europe » Malta » Hiking in Malta: 8 Bucketlist Trails to Check Out in 2021 Hiking in Malta: 8 Bucketlist Trails to Check Out in 2021 Malta is a magical Mediterranean archipelago with natural and historical marvels in abundance. Its history dates back thousands of years, with glimpses of civilization that take you way back in time. But as amazing as that might be, there’s more to Malta than its many, many years of civi...

From Covid to Cardinal -2020, the year in photos Photos by Miguela Xuereb Endings and beginnings. That is what we face in the last week of every year. This year, as a professional photographer I witnessed a multitude of challenges. Not only was it notable for the incredible impact which COVID-19 had on health, society and the economy, it was also a year which started with considerable political tumult. January The fire at Marsa open centre left hundreds of migrants waiting outside for hours in...

Four, including one-year-old, hospitalised following head-on collision Four hospitalised in Dingli car accident 28 December 2020, 2:52pm by Karl Azzopardi A one-year-old baby and three other people have been hospitalised following a head-on collision in Dingli. Police said the incident happened at around 12:30 pm in Triq ir-Rabat, Dingli. The road has been closed down due to the crash, with motorists urged to avoid the area. The first car involved in the crash was a VW Polo, which was carryin...

Four people, including a one-year-old baby girl, have been hospitalised following a head-on crash in Dingli. The police said the crash took place on Triq ir-Rabat at 12.30pm. Those injured were a 48-year-old woman from Rabat who was behind the wheel of a Volkswagon Polo, a 33-year-old man from Gzira who was driving a Ford Transit van, and two passengers in the Polo - a 25-year-old woman from Dingli and a one-year-old girl.  The police said the condition of the 48-year-old woman is serious, whi...

It’s been a tough year. That’s a perfect blanket phrase which thousands of us, irrespective of our backgrounds or life choices, will identify with. Most of us are looking forward to the day when we’ll be free of restrictions, anxieties, maybe even responsibilities. Others have had it even worse: from victims of domestic violence to the homeless, the unemployed and the unemployed-to-be. The year of COVID-19 has been tragic under a number of aspects, more so when it comes to the lost virtue...