Yellow Pages Malta

Malta has taken the top spot in the EU for business social media use.
According to Eurostat, 88.2% of enterprises in Malta with 10 or more employees used some form of social media in 2025. This placed Malta ahead of Finland at 87.6% and Denmark at 86.1%.

Here’s a piece of Maltese history that surprises almost everyone: Malta once had a railway. From 1883 until 1931, a single-track steam train ran from Valletta to the old capital Mdina, passing through Floriana, Ħamrun, Msida, Santa Venera, Birkirkara, Balzan and Attard. The Maltese affectionately called it il-vapur tal-art; ‘the land ship’. It cut the journey between the two cities from about three hours by road to roughly 25 minutes, and at its busiest it ran more than a dozen return trips a day. But the railway had a hard life: its first owner went bankrupt in 1890, the government had to rescue it, and in the end it was killed off by the arrival of the motor bus. The last train ran on 31 March 1931. There’s even a wonderfully absurd footnote: in 1940, Mussolini boasted that an Italian air raid had destroyed Malta’s railway, even though it had already been closed for nine years. Today you can still find its traces: the old station at Birkirkara (now a museum), a station below Mdina that’s now a restaurant, tunnels, bridges, and streets still named after the line that vanished. This is the full story of Malta’s forgotten railway.

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Alex Borg has confirmed that he will once again contest for the position of PN Leader and will present himself before the party. The process will begin with regional assemblies across Malta and Gozo, followed by a General Council meeting on 20 June, where party officials will discuss the election result and formally start the leadership process.
In his statement, Borg called for unity within the party and said that, with the trust of members and supporters, he wants to continue strengthening the PN as a strong voice representing all Maltese and Gozitans.
As the party looks ahead to the next legislature and prepares for future electoral challenges, the question now is whether Alex Borg should continue leading the Nationalist Party or whether the PN should consider a different direction.
Let us know what you think?

Today Malta uses the euro, but the coins that passed through Maltese hands tell the whole story of who ruled the island. Under the Knights of St John, Malta used the scudo, divided into tarì, grani and piccioli; a farm labourer earned less than a scudo for three days’ work. When the British took over, they replaced it with the pound sterling in 1825, and Malta became the only British colony in the world to use a special one-third-farthing coin, struck right up to 1913. After Independence, Malta finally created its own modern money: the Maltese lira (still called the pound in English for years), decimalised in 1972, which went on to become the second most valuable currency unit in the entire world, behind only the Kuwaiti dinar. And then, on the 1st of January 2008, the lira gave way to the euro at the fixed rate of one euro to 0.4293 liri. This is the full story of Malta’s money, scudi, pounds, liri and euros, with the real dates, the real coins, and the real exchange rates.

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According to Forbes, Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire following the public listing of SpaceX on Nasdaq. The company’s debut valued SpaceX at nearly $2 trillion, boosting Musk’s estimated net worth to $1.1 trillion and marking a historic milestone in global wealth creation.

According to the latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates published by the National Statistics Office (NSO), employment in Malta reached 333,682 persons during the first quarter of 2026, marking a 3.3% increase compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Over the same period, the LFS based unemployment rate for persons aged 15–74 stood at 3.5%.

According to Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates published by the National Statistics Office (NSO), 40.0% of persons in employment in Malta during the first quarter of 2026 held a tertiary level of education.
The survey also revealed that across occupations, average monthly basic salaries ranged from €3,628 for managers to €1,410 for persons in elementary occupations.

Labour has filled eight vacant parliamentary seats through the casual election process, with a mix of returning politicians and first-time MPs securing places in parliament.
The results mark a return to parliament for five candidates, including former parliamentary secretaries Rebecca Buttigieg, Alex Muscat and Andy Ellul. Former parliamentary secretary Franco Mercieca also makes a political comeback, while Mariah Meli and economist Clint Azzopardi Flores will be entering parliament for the first time.
The Nationalist Party is set to undergo the same process on Tuesday to fill its vacant seats.

The Building and Construction Authority and Malta Tourism Authority have announced a seasonal ban on demolition and excavation works in selected tourist zones from the 15th of June to the 30th of September. The measure targets the most disruptive phases of construction projects in an effort to reduce noise, dust, and inconvenience for residents, hotels, and visitors during the peak summer season. Authorities say the restrictions also aim to improve quality of life in tourism heavy localities.

Anyone who has walked through Sliema, Valletta or St Julian’s has seen them: cats lounging in the gardens, curled up in handmade shelters, lining up on harbour walls at dusk waiting to be fed. Malta is, famously, a nation of cat lovers, and unlike in many countries, you rarely see a starving stray here, because Malta’s cats are looked after not by single owners but by whole communities. Behind that gentle scene is a quiet, mostly-volunteer network: an estimated thousand-plus dedicated ‘feeders’ who show up day after day, often paying out of their own pockets; NGOs and sanctuaries like the MSPCA, CSAF and Cat Village; a government-funded neutering campaign; and since 2024, a formal system that requires cat feeders to register their colonies with their local council, logging GPS locations and the number of cats they care for. This is the story of who actually feeds Malta’s cats, how the ‘quiet network’ works, and how the island balances its deep affection for its felines with the hard practical work of keeping their numbers under control.

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