Valletta’s Grand Harbour was once the last friendly port for refugees seeking Europe’s safety; this weekend, its sister harbour in Sfax, Tunisia, echoed that role in reverse. More than 1,000 Tunisians lined the stone quays at dawn on Saturday, waving Palestinian flags and hoisting baskets of dates, to welcome two small wooden trawlers limping in…
FREE MAGAZINE WITH ‘THE SUNDAY TIMES’: THE MALTESE WEEKEND RITUAL THAT BINDS A NATION Every Sunday at dawn, the familiar thud of the newspaper bundle hits the doorstep from Żurrieq to St Julian’s, heralding more than just the week’s headlines. Nestled inside The Sunday Times of Malta is the island’s best-loved free magazine – a…
Valletta’s lunchtime hush was broken at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday by a jarring, siren-like screech that spilled from every passing phone. Tourists lining up for ftira at Is-Suq tal-Belt flinched, and elderly men playing briscola by the Triton Fountain looked up in alarm. It wasn’t an Amber Alert for a missing child in Gozo, nor…
Valletta’s balmy spring evenings usually echo with chatter about Eurovision odds or the price of pastizzi, but this week the courtyard talk at Café Cordina has taken a sharper turn. Over tiny glasses of Kinnie and shared plates of ġbejniet, Maltese citizens, diplomats and students are dissecting Israel’s blunt warning that any European recognition of…
A pall of worry settled over the usually bustling streets of Luqa yesterday afternoon when a 28-year-old motorcyclist from Qormi was rushed to Mater Dei Hospital in critical condition following a collision with a delivery van. The crash, which occurred at the notorious Triq Ħal Farruġ roundabout shortly after 3 p.m., forced police to shut…
Gozo’s Ramla l-Ħamra, the island’s russet-gold beach that once inspired Homer’s nymph Calypso, found itself at the centre of a modern-day battle last Saturday morning. At 6:43 a.m., volunteers from the local NGO Moviment Graffitti spotted a lone contractor sandblasting the façade of a private villa perched on the terraced cliffs that form part of…
Rainbow flags billowed against honey-coloured limestone as Victoria’s Pjazza Indipendenza became a sea of colour on Saturday afternoon, marking the fourth annual Gozo Pride march. More than 500 residents, weekenders from Malta, and curious tourists wound their way through the Citadel’s narrow streets, turning Gozo’s quiet capital into the loudest, proudest corner of the Maltese…
Claire Tonna, the Maltese soprano whose voice has graced cathedrals from Valletta to Vienna, is coming home for a single, spell-binding night. On 14 September she will fill the Granaries in Floriana with a concert that organisers promise will be “more than music—it will be a reunion.” For a country that measures its heartbeat in…
Emergency Care Talks at ‘Advanced Stage’: Malta’s Pet Parents Breathe a Little Easier By Hot Malta Newsroom | 24 June 2024, 09:30 CEST It’s 2 a.m. in Żabbar. Maria Vella’s six-year-old French bulldog, Bruno, has started gasping for air after swallowing a chicken bone at a family bbq. A frantic call to the nearest 24-hour…
Valletta, 11 July – The amber glow of a Mediterranean sunset over the Grand Harbour last night felt almost surreal against the backdrop of news that Russia had unleashed its largest air assault of the war on Kyiv, striking the very seat of Ukraine’s government. In cafés along Strait Street, where tourists usually clink Cisk…
**Jarmusch’s Indie Triumph Resonates in Malta’s Creative Circles as Gaza War Film Misses Out** Valletta – While the lagoon city of Venice basked in late-summer spotlight last weekend, filmmakers on Malta’s own sun-bleached stones followed every update from the Lido. The reason? Jim Jarmusch, patron saint of off-beat cinema, walked away with the Golden Lion…
Two men arrested following late-night argument outside Ta’ Qali establishment Hot Malta | 5 min read The usually placid night air of Ta’ Qali was broken just after 1 a.m. on Sunday when an argument between two patrons outside a well-known entertainment venue escalated into a scuffle loud enough to wake residents in the surrounding…
