As we all know, we’ve been plagued by power cuts forever and it’s only getting worse as the population grows, and seasonally explodes during summer.

One major factor is big hotels operating at high occupancy, and short lets. These create a seasonal high demand that adds stress on the grid and ends up affecting most residents.

So my thought is, limit the supply from grid to big hotels. It must be capped so it doesn’t exceed the normal low season demand. Hotels must invest in their own industrial generator / power plant to make up for the additional seasonal demand. They make enough profits to do so, and the multiple recent renovations and massive expansions are the proof.

As for short lets, make it mandatory for landlords to install pay as you go meters. This will force occupants to be more mindful of their consumption as they have to pay for what they use, and they won’t keep all lights and ACs on because it’s included in their daily rent.

This will relieve the grid from the extra seasonal demand and allow the local residents to have (hopefully) 24/7 electricity supply.

Hey everyone, bit of an emergency here. Power’s been out in our Msida apartment since Monday 21:00 and with this heatwave it’s over 30° inside all day now.

Honestly I don’t mind the sweating, showers, all that - but we’ve got two dwarf bunnies and they’re really struggling with the heat.

If anyone has AC and could take them in for a few days until the power’s sorted, please reach out. We’re also ringing round vets on the island but no luck yet.

Really hoping this gets fixed soon 🙏

U għadu għaddej, kif xorta tara kummenti hekk.. kultant lanqas nemmen li din ir-realtà, għax bi l-moħħ (forsi injorant) li tagħni Alla, ma nifhimx kif jista' jkun.

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Ranting here because I don’t know where to go and I feel I need to vent. Enemalta is a joke and the people they employ for customer have a script to read off, without caring about anyone calling. Since Monday we had a power cut in our area for over 24 hours, and the power came back late Tuesday evening. Then yesterday evening, the power went out again, and we thought it was of the area again, but after a few minutes realised it was only our apartment block. We went to the main power meters of the building and realised that the block of apartments had power as the display of the meter was on, but the 3 flats in the block do not, as their displays are off. After about 1 hour of waiting for Enemalta’s service line to transfer us to an “agent” they told us they will file a report. We were expecting them to say they would send someone when they could, because it’s likely a wire or connection that has been fried in our apartment block which needs fixing. Instead, they told us to “wait until it comes back on because it “could be” a problem with the power line bases of the area”. We know that’s not the problem, because every building in the area has power, including ours, but only our apartments are not receiving the electricity.

They then told us they cannot do anything because they are working around the clock to fix power outages around Malta and Gozo.

For sure, I understand there are people who are suffering more than us, and thankfully we don’t have elderly or children living with us. But knowing that this is something within our apartment’s salvavita boxes which needs fixing, and it’s not a matter of waiting for the power to come back on, I can’t help feeling extremely angry at this. We have already had 200+ euros of food that needs to be thrown out. My parents and I have spent these nights not being able to sleep and then expected to go to work in the morning for almost the entire day, my cat is suffering and struggling to eat in this heat as well.

Enemalta PLEASE DO BETTER WITH YOUR CUSTOMER CARE. The woman we spoke to just kept repeating herself like she was reading from a script, not understanding what we were explaining.

Hi everyone,

For some background, my Grandmother is Maltese and my dad was born there so I feel very connected to Malta, especially growing up hearing my Grandmas fond memories as a child (even though it was during WW2 and they were being obliterated by the Nazis - she still remembers it so beautifully). For this reason I do have a sense of strong Maltese pride despite being born in Australia.

I always thought I'd end up relocating to Malta permanently, now I have recruiters telling me not to bother as it's so overcrowded . Which feels extremely unfair given I have Maltese heritage. Now I just feel like another expat coming to make locals lives hell.

I was absolutely shocked the Maltese people voted in the same government again recently who are doing this to the Island. I think they want to turn it into Hong Kong or Dubai something. It's a disgrace. The whole Island should be a Unesco World Heritage site and its being DESTROYED.

The history of Malta has a substantial historical relevance to the entire western and even Arab world and it needs to be preserved. I don't understand how the leaders of the country can do that to their place of heritage without a thought about what is being lost. It makes me want to cry.

Hi! I am a tnc living in malta with a single work permit for 2 years. I wanted to study a course in Mcast just a short course. I was wondering if I can study here for free? is there any way please? thanks!

We’re international students coming to do our studies in Malta the only issue we have left is the place we searched on sites and web etc even the university accommodation isn’t available we need to fly by September could you all plz help to find a place with such specification and we’re looking for friends in the age range of 20 and above. Thanks for reading help us out.

Setting up a Malta fiscal unit as a solo non-dom ; 3 different CSPs are giving me conflicting answers

Context: EU citizen, relocating to Malta, solo consultant with a single overseas client (six-figure USD income, ~10–15 invoices/year). Planning a Malta trading company, tax resident but non-domiciled. I've gotten quotes from three different corporate service providers and their advice genuinely conflicts on a few points. Would love input from anyone who's actually done this, not just sales pitches.

1. The big one: as a non-dom Malta tax resident who is the SOLE individual shareholder of a single Malta trading company, can I claim the 6/7 tax refund directly in my own name, with no holding company at all? Two firms strongly implied I need a holding (Malta or foreign) for the refund/dividend to be "clean" at my level; general online sources suggest non-domiciled shareholders can claim it directly. Has anyone actually done this as an individual (not through a holding) and gotten paid?

2. If a foreign holding company IS needed, do CFC rules bite if I (as the Malta-resident, controlling individual) keep profits inside that foreign holding without distributing? One firm flagged this as a real risk, another didn't mention it at all.

3. Audit costs for a fiscal unit (2 companies + consolidation): quotes ranged from ~2,200 EUR to 6,000 EUR for what's genuinely a tiny operation (single client, one employee, no inventory). Which is more realistic in practice?

4. Can the 6/7 refund actually be received on a Wise/Revolut Business (or personal) account, or does the CFR require a traditional Maltese bank account?

5. For a company incorporated in H2, does the extended first financial year (running to the following Dec 31, with tax/audit pushed out ~2 years) apply the same way to a single-company structure as it does to a fiscal unit?

6. Real-world Identità/eResidence timelines, official guidance says ~30 working days, but has anyone experienced it dragging on much longer, and if so why (which documents tripped people up)?

Any first-hand experience appreciated — trying to cut through provider sales pitches before I commit to a structure.

Hey, I put this together a few days ago with the initial aim of giving users an easier way to keep up with the current electricity supply challenges. At first I relied on the official Enemalta feed for unplanned and planned outages. It soon became clear that for some reason many outages were not being mapped on the Enemalta site, so I added functionality that allows users to submit reports about ongoing disruptions.

I hope it's useful, feedback and requests for improvements and/or features welcome.

Ok so let’s for the sake of this argument imagine that this incomplete bunch is replaced by honest people who knew what they’re doing. They foresee that with the population growth and climate change the electricity problem is going to keep getting worse and worse.

Supply aside, what would they have to do to improve the distribution? Does it involve digging up all the roads and changing/increasing cables over who knows how many years? Is there a better way that would cause less disruption?

EDIT: thank you for all your replies. There seems to be an emphasis on reducing our power consumption. This is simply not enough. The population is growing (we don't know how much, Robert Able and Clyde Caruana can't agree on a number, but the plan is to keep on bringing more and more people). Climate change is inevitable at this point, in 5 years we will look back at 2023 and 2026 and appreciate how cool these summers have been.

Imposing limits on personal consumption or removing subsidies is a drop in the ocean. We need to improve and future proof the distribution arm. My question is how?

Saint Paul’s bay on the 35hr of no electricity, this is brutal, all items in the fridge and freezer went bad, no electricity to charge phones, everybody in our block is getting less than 5hrs of sleep with this heat and it’s horrible. Surely this can’t be safe.

Honestly at this point the government can keep their compensation fee, health is more important and this is horrible, they should stop hotels from accessing the general power and use their generators, and maybe urge those with solar to use it if possible.

Now the issue is, when this doesn’t affect your you overlock this, you may scroll past such a post and not really care, but when it does affect you, like it is right now, it’s horrible and that’s only how one can understand the feeling of it, and by no means do I wish anybody to experience this.

The worst part is that many places in St Paul’s already have it back on apart from some streets. Do they just not care about us? Ene Malta has their map of outages down at the moment, their site just returns CSS and their call support team just says the same exact script each time, they ask some information to make it seem they are helping, but at the end just tell you to wait. Hey at least if they said like we have scheduled works at x time on your road, at least it would be more relieving, but who knows how long this will last, could be weeks.

And worst of all is that St Paul’s never showed up as an outage on their map, and same goes for other regions, I have a strong feeling that they simply hide all their real outages and just show one that is soon going to be fixed and post it. I spoke with many different people experiencing similar outages yesterday and around 2hrs of being displayed on their map, it was resolved, not the case for St Paul’s bay. Had their map showed all outages, it would be all red and that would cause the public to panic, so I’m sure at this point they are hiding it not to show the reality of it.

Again, we don’t need their compensation, what is that going to do, but some groceries again if even. But health is way way more important and we need something NOW, now weeks or months later. Later people might forget how bad this all was and be happy with a lower compensation, where as if the same compensation would be given now, people would be mad.

Personal suggestions for fixes:

• large hotels switch to solar or generators, they have the funds and space for this, so what’s the issue here, during these peaks might as well use them

• find, keep it off during the day, but at least at night, when people need to rest, allow some for AC, people won’t be using as many devices such as TVs at night, and at least you protect the health and let people rest, and also cables won’t get AS hot; why they won’t do this, well because probably they prefer working at night, and I don’t blame them, but we are over 35hrs with no electricity and at this point they either forgot or gave up…

Writing here to see if anyone went through a similar situation. I’ve recently purchased property and the power went out in the area last night.

Went to check out the property today and the voltage was either above 200 or dropping to 5 in a few seconds. After switching off the main so as to not fry my appliances I contacted both enemalta and the previous owner about the issue.

The owner has no recollection of the voltage ever playing up this badly, enemalta confirmed that there is a known voltage problem in my area and they’re working on it.

Has anyone gone through anything similar and managed to solve it please? I’m not expecting miracles, especially in these terrible conditions we’re currently in, but I’m worried that this issue will never be properly addressed, resulting in damage to my property. Would appreciate any tips from anyone who has gone through something similar, or suggestions on how to push for this issue to be resolved.

I would also like to thank the enemalta workers who I’m sure are working tirelessly to get electricity back to localities. It’s overall very worrying that the government (irrelevant of which party is in power) did not intervene with extra measures during the colder months to ensure to the best of their ability that this would not happen again.

Seriously, USE THEM! ↔️

And it's not only on roundabouts! People just stop in front of you and aggressively turn.

It's annoying having to guess where the car is going, and even dangerous. Why such a laziness/negligence??

€25K (and counting!) raised to buy a generator for abandoned and/or sickly cats. And in less than 24 hours.

Seeing this generosity coming from people with a platform whilst others shirk off responsibility genuinely bumped up my faith in humankind. Gigantic kudos to James and all who donated ❤️

Coming from the USA. Travel brochures are enticing. But what are the real must-see sights? Thanks.

Hi everyone. We're a small team behind MyRent.mt, a site built to reach people from other countries who are planning their move to Malta and already searching for a place.

I'm posting because we receive a good number of apartment requests from abroad (emails and texts from people actively looking), but we don't have enough listings to match them. So if you're a landlord or agent with a property that may be harder to sell here on Facebook, you're welcome to put it on MyRent.mt too.

It's completely free, your clients don't need to register for anything, and you can promote your agency or private business at no cost. Add your contact number and that's it.

We are open for any suggestion and feedback. We are trying to keep this website as transparent and feedback friendly.

With that I mean: only essential things, no restaurants, and avoiding the businesses where TCNs are mostly employed.

Would that make a difference? Or tourists are more than enough with their spending to not diminish the amount of workers they want to import?

Tghid x'tghid, jekk izzomm ma' partit politiku u tiddefendih akkost ta' kollox, anke meta hu korrot, inkompetenti jew hazin int liba, u haqqek min jghajrek Libarista.

We have a garage and it has a basement below it, we are getting water coming in from the roadside where the wall meets the ground, its coming out in several places. We do not have water or electricity in the garage so not coming from us. Water Services came and took a sample and told us sewage, told us to get hold of the health department, they came and took another sample and that was 4 weeks ago now. What are we suppose to do?Who is responsible for finding out where it is coming from and repairing it? I got hold of one of those water leak companies and they said it not worth it as would have to test the entire street and will be expensive. What are we suppose to do? We want to fix up this garage and basement and turn it into something as its large and in a prime area of Sliema but cant do anything until we get it dry.

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Booming economy, increase in population over the years and to boot 3 years ago the same thing happened.

What in the everlasting fuck have they been doing. Not fit for the position they hold (yes including minister). My god the incompetence.

Then there are the PN. These absolute twats are shouting for compensation - fuck off and help fix the damn problem, stop trying to make yourself look good. Stop opposing and actually do something for the good of the people. I don't know how i don't claim to be an expert in this field but im sure both sides have their so called experts (fml).

A genuine shout out to the enemalta people out playing whack a mole in this heat.

edit: cause it seems people here think im defending one or the other. I honestly feel let down by both (very). Im tired of this labour government and their priorities but the people voted (look at those fb posts fr). Just look after yourselves and your loved ones. Im tired of this bickering and placing people on pedestals. Look where that got us

Hi, I'm Kay, a lecturer/ researcher at the University of Malta. I'm currently carrying out research on the experiences of people accessing mental health services in Malta (via a GP, psychiatrist, NGO, hospital etc) - ideally in the past 3 years. If you've gone through the process and feel okay to share your thoughts and experiences, please consider taking part in my study - it involves in an interview with me.. I'm looking to talk to as many people as possible to identify gaps/needs and how we can improve it. If you're interested, please dm me or send an email to [email protected].. Cheers 😊

Anyone play any monster hunter?

Any of the newer titles, got bored of playing 100hrs on each solo. Looking for some fellow hunters!

If so dm me so we can maybe set up a discord or smthn!

Grazzi l ahwa

Hello Malta meta se tqumu minn fuq il loki u tifthu ghajnejkom??

Hi Malta when tf are you going to wake up and open your eyes??

Malta is a narcissist's paradise. It's no wonder the island attracts literal shit from all over the world when the locals act like goats, getting wasted and treating politics like a football match🙈😂