A public record, kept by citizens.

Malta On Record exists to document how a small country is being reshaped, who benefits, and the ordinary public left to pay for it.

Look around and the story is the same in every town. More concrete, more cranes, more cars. Coast and countryside traded for apartments. A tourism industry scaled far past what the island can carry, with residents priced out and crowded out of the places they grew up in. A few do very well from all of this. Most people simply live with the consequences.

Much of it is legal, which is exactly why it matters. The public interest is worn away quietly, decision by decision, while each separate outrage trends for a day and then vanishes. This is an attempt to keep hold of it: to write things down plainly, show the evidence, and give people somewhere concrete to push back.

A word on how we work. We deal in what can be shown. We criticise decisions, systems and the incentives behind them, not the private lives of individuals, and where we make a claim we point to the source. The aim is a fair and durable account of what is being done and who carries the cost, not a pile-on.

If you have a story, a document or a correction, we want to hear it. Write to hello@maltaonrecord.com.