Mark Laurence Zammit

1 week ago | timesofmalta.com | Mark Laurence Zammit

The metro remains the best mass transportation system for Malta and it would be worth the cost, according to Transport Minister Chris Bonett, but the country might not be able to afford it. The long-term “dream” for mass transportation in Malta would be an integrated system that includes several means of transport – perhaps underground, rail and ferries – all complementing each other, he said during a Times Talk episode that is being released on Wednesday (today).

1 week ago | timesofmalta.com | Mark Laurence Zammit

Students’ history curriculum and textbooks in schools will have to be updated now that a significant archaeological discovery pushed back Maltese history by at least 1,000 years, Education Minister Clifton Grima confirmed. Grima said he looks forward to updating the curriculum as further discoveries on the origins of the Maltese people are unearthed and confirmed in the near future. RELATED STORIESTimes Talk: The first Maltese people in history, unearthed“I’m emotional, truly emotional about this.

2 weeks ago | timesofmalta.com | Mark Laurence Zammit

A special episode of Times Talk is revealing an exclusive, first look into a groundbreaking discovery led by two Maltese archaeologists, which has altered the history of Malta and the Mediterranean. In this episode, professors Eleanor Scerri and Nicholas Vella sit down with Times of Malta to explain how their team unearthed 8,500-year old remains from a cave in Mellieħa that confirmed there were humans in Malta at least a thousand years before the first farmers were thought to have arrived.

2 weeks ago | timesofmalta.com | Mark Laurence Zammit

Mellieħa cave reveals Malta's first people were hunter-gatherers Discovery hailed as equivalent to Sir Temi Zammit's megalithic finds School textbooks and museums must now be updated, scientists say Times Talk to provide exclusive first look at discovery on Thursday A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that Malta's human history is at least 1,000 years older than previously thought, and that the first people to ever descend on the islands were hunter-gatherers, not the farmers described in...

2 weeks ago | timesofmalta.com | Mark Laurence Zammit

A Nationalist government will seek to create a future where 10 per cent of all trips in the country are made by bicycle, Bernard Grech said Sunday. Speaking at a party event on transport, the PN leader said this was just part of a much broader vision that people longed for in the mobility sector, and it could only be achieved if the infrastructure got massive upgrades. "Our aim is to have 10 per cent of all trips done by bicycle," he said.