Tim Diacono

5 days ago | lovinmalta.com | Tim Diacono

The Maltese Olympic Committee has hit out at national table tennis champion Gabriel Grixti after he criticised them for leaving him out of the Small States of Europe team in favour of five foreign-born players. In a statement, the MOC said that while it is “very nice” to be the national champion of a small state, it gives more weight to table tennis players who compete in countries with a higher standard.

5 days ago | lovinmalta.com | Tim Diacono

In his first public appearance as Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church wore a pectoral cross that was gifted to him by a Maltese Augustinian priest. Church-owned media house Newsbook reported that Fr Josef Sciberras, Postulator General for the Augustinian Order in Rome, had gifted the cross to Robert Prevost when he was appointed Cardinal in 2023. The cross is said to contain sacred relics from saints and blessed of the Order, including St Augustine himself, St Monica and others.

5 days ago | lovinmalta.com | Tim Diacono

The MIDI consortium, entrusted with the redevelopment of Manoel Island, has presented the project as a model of sustainability and sensitivity to our heritage. Among the many promotional materials shared so far are highly polished photo montages that show a transformed Manoel Island as clean, green, and pedestrian-friendly. However, what is noticeably absent in all these images is any trace of traffic.

5 days ago | lovinmalta.com | Tim Diacono

Hospice Malta co-founder Dr Peter Muscat has endorsed a proposal for Malta to legalise voluntary euthanasia for patients suffering from terminal conditions. “As a doctor, my main goal is obviously to help cure people and ease their suffering, and as a psychiatrist, it is also help eliminate the mental disturbances that people might pass through,” Muscat said at the launch of a public consultation this week.

5 days ago | lovinmalta.com | Tim Diacono

Malta’s national seniors table tennis champion Gabriel Grixti said he feels “tired, betrayed and discarded” after he was excluded from the national squad for this year’s Games of the Small States of Europe in favour of foreign-born players. Grixti said he dedicates over 18 hours a week to the sport despite the stress of being a fifth-year medical student, all for the sake of proudly representing Malta on the international stage.