Delia campaign questions eligibility of more than 100 PN leadership voters In a move that is already being dubbed “the carnival before the storm”, the campaign team backing veteran Nationalist Party stalwart Adrian Delia has formally challenged the voting eligibility of more than 100 delegates due to cast ballots in the upcoming PN leadership election….
Watch: Towering eucalyptus bursts into flames again in the dead of night – Mellieħa’s skyline briefly turned into a living fireball as embers from Saturday’s controlled burn re-ignited, sending tongues of orange 15 metres up the trunk and sparking a frantic call-out for the Malta Fire and Rescue Service. The drama began around 1:30 a.m….
Malta’s low birth rate risks ‘ethnic extinction’, Archbishop warns By Hot Malta Newsroom Archbishop Charles Scicluna set the island talking this week after he warned that Malta’s plunging birth rate could lead to “ethnic extinction”. Speaking during Sunday’s homily at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, the Archbishop told a packed baroque nave that the country…
St Julian’s waterfront shimmered under a setting sun last Sunday, but the real glow came from the long wooden tables set up outside the Love Bites community kitchen. There, Maltese octopus stew simmered next to Nigerian jollof rice, while a pot of Sri Lankan kottu roti sizzled beside a tray of qassatat. For the third…
Podium or Prejudice? Paceville Nightspot Accused of Gender Bias After Man’s Phone Smashed in Row Over Stage Access St Julian’s – A quiet Monday morning at the St Julian’s police station turned into the latest flashpoint in Malta’s ongoing debate over gender equality when 27-year-old software developer Luke Briffa filed a criminal complaint alleging discrimination,…
Valletta’s morning cafés were buzzing louder than usual on Thursday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s dramatic pledge to “stop the genocide in Gaza” collided head-on with Israel’s furious recall of its ambassador from Madrid. For Maltese ears, the row sounds less like distant thunder and more like a family argument echoing across the Mediterranean…
Russell Crowe shaken by Nazi role in ‘Nuremberg’ – and why Malta’s cinema lovers should care Valletta’s Grand Harbour may be 1,700 km from the ruins of Nuremberg, but when Oscar-winner Russell Crowe admitted last week that portraying a Nazi war criminal in the upcoming film “Nuremberg” left him “shaken to the bone”, the ripple…
Maltese Commuters, Students and Holidaymakers Caught in London Tube Chaos By Sarah Vella, Hot Malta Correspondent When the Piccadilly Line ground to a halt at 05:30 on Tuesday morning, the ripple was felt 2,000 kilometres away—right here in Malta. More than 3.5 million daily journeys on the London Underground were cancelled or delayed after 10,000…
Valletta’s morning sun had barely cleared the bastions when the first carnations appeared at the foot of the Great Siege Monument. By 9 a.m. the bronze figures of Faith, Fortitude and Civilisation were swimming in a tide of red and white—some blooms still dewy from florists in Hamrun, others wrapped in the plastic sleeves that…
Maltese Hearts Go Out to East Jerusalem as Gunmen Kill Five in Dawn Market Rampage By Maria Pace, Hot Malta Correspondent The bells of the Carmelite Church in Mdina had barely finished their 7 a.m. chime on Friday when news flashed across Maltese smartphones: five Israelis—four women and one man—lay dead in an east Jerusalem…
At dawn last Tuesday, veteran Marsaxlokk fisherman Ġorġ Briffa hauled up his lampuki net and stared in disbelief. Nestled among the silver flashes of dorado was a fish straight out of a sci-fi comic—electric blue stripes, venomous spines, and the unmistakable scowl of a lionfish. Briffa’s catch is only the latest confirmation of what marine…
The Sweet Trap: How Maltese Babies Are Losing Their First Teeth to Night-Time Bottles By Hot Malta Staff | 6 min read Every evening, as the last ferry leaves Valletta’s Grand Harbour and the church bells of Mosta fall silent, thousands of Maltese parents settle their babies with what feels like an innocent comfort: a…
