# Graffitti-led coalition launches crowdfund to slam brakes on Żabbar-Kalkara road to Smart City A feisty alliance of residents, cyclists, artists and heritage NGOs has taken to the internet to crowdfund a David-vs-Goliath legal battle against the proposed Żabbar-Kalkara arterial road that would slice through centuries-old farmland and open a four-lane gateway to Smart City….
ChatGPT to Get Parental Controls After Teen’s Death – What Malta Needs to Know Valletta, Malta – The news that OpenAI will roll out stricter parental controls for ChatGPT, following the suicide of a 14-year-old in Florida, has landed on our islands with the force of a summer sirocco. In a nation where 92 %…
Pete Buttigieg: ‘I remember buying The Times and a ħobża for dad’ – a Maltese son’s journey to the White House By Martina Vella | Hot Malta VALLETTA – When United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told a Washington audience last week that “I remember buying The Times and a ħobża for dad,” Maltese…
Putin Meets Kim: From Valletta Balconies to Vladivostok – What the Russia-North Korea Pact Means for Malta By a Hot Malta correspondent | Valletta On a balmy Mediterranean evening, while elderly men argued over ċisk and ħobż biż-żejt in Strait Street and tourists queued for gelato beneath the honey-coloured bastions, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un…
Swieqi residents have finally caught the ear of the nation’s highest watchdog. Ombudsman Joseph A. Bartolo announced today that his office will open a formal investigation into complaints that overtourism is “eroding the very fabric” of this once-quiet micro-municipality perched above St Julian’s. The move comes after a petition signed by 412 households—roughly one in…
Alex Agius Saliba Asks EU to Probe Austrian Gaming Judgments: A Red-and-White Warning Flag for Malta’s Digital Crown Jewel Malta woke up this week to the sound of its most prominent MEP banging on the doors of Brussels. Alex Agius Saliba, Labour’s firebrand in the European Parliament, has formally requested an EU-wide investigation into recent…
China’s Searing Summer Sends Ripples to Malta’s Shores by Maria Vella, Hot Malta correspondent Valletta – While the Grand Harbour’s limestone walls glow calmly under a 31 °C September breeze, meteorologists in Beijing have just confirmed what many suspected: China has endured its hottest summer since records began in 1951. Average temperatures from June to…
Have You Seen This Man? How One Missing-Person Poster Became a National Mirror By now the black-and-white flyer is everywhere: taped to bus shelters in Valletta, wedged under windscreen wipers outside the Gozo ferry, wedged between pastizzi trays at the Naxxar band club. “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?” the headline demands in bold block letters….
Watch: How roadside drug tests will work in practice – and why every Maltese driver needs to pay attention Just after sunrise on a Thursday in Gżira, Transport Malta officers set up a discreet checkpoint beside the yacht marina. A queue of commuters inch forward, coffee cups in hand, when a plain-clothes officer waves a…
Floriana’s regeneration begins with its people By Hot Malta Correspondent If you walk through Floriana at 7 a.m. on any weekday you will find the same ritual: elderly men at the Granaries rolling cigarettes and arguing about football, schoolchildren chasing pigeons across Piazza San Publiju, and the scent of ftira biż-żejt drifting from the hole-in-the-wall…
“More than just striptease”: how Undine LaVerve brought Burlesque to Malta by Hot Malta On a balmy Friday in Valletta, the baroque arches of Splendid Theatre glow a soft crimson. Feather boas brush against the ancient limestone, sequins glitter under the chandeliers, and a ripple of anticipation moves through the crowd as the band strikes…
Zone Zero: The Rise of Effortless Exercise How Malta’s Balcony Joggers, Seafront Strollers and Sunday Ġbejna Hunters are Rewriting the Fitness Rulebook by Luke Vella | Hot Malta On a breezy Tuesday evening in Sliema, 72-year-old Ġemma Pace is doing what she calls “exercise without the exercise.” Perched on a wooden bench facing Manoel Island,…
