They Can’t Shut Us All Up: How Malta’s Small Island Roars Louder Than Ever By a Hot Malta Correspondent Walk down Strait Street on any given Friday night and you’ll hear it: the rising chorus of Maltese voices spilling out of bars, band clubs and balconies, arguing, laughing, singing. It might sound like ordinary weekend…
Catholic teen set to become first millennial saint: How Carlo Acutis is already inspiring Maltese youth The pews of the Oratory of St Francis in Birkirkara were unusually packed last Sunday—not for a wedding or First Communion, but for a special Mass celebrated by Maltese teenagers who had just returned from a week-long pilgrimage to…
Żepp’s Last Stand – How One Man’s 7 September 2025 Send-Off Became a National Love-Letter to Malta By 09:00 on Sunday 7 September 2025, the narrow lanes of Siġġiewi were already humming like a festa loud-speaker. Elderly men in flat caps polished brass bands’ instruments outside the parish church; children in hand-me-down Ġorġ tal-Fjur costumes…
Watch: Mildred’s last selfie of joy before death struck – a Valetta balcony that now breaks hearts island-wide VALLETTA – In the golden hour of last Saturday, 74-year-old Mildred Pace uploaded a selfie to her WhatsApp status that has since become the most-shared image on Maltese social media this year. Smiling against the honey-coloured limestone…
It’s barely 07:00 in Msida and the metal shutters of Azzopardi Pharmacy are already clacking upward, releasing a waft of eucalyptus and talcum into the narrow street. Inside, pharmacist Ritienne Azzopardi is printing a queue ticket for an elderly woman clutching a handwritten list of five different medications. “September 7, Madonna’s birthday,” Ritienne smiles, “but…
Gilded Devotion: How a Pair of Silver Missal Covers Put Senglea Basilica Back on the World’s Cultural Map By Hot Malta Correspondent When the heavy brass doors of Senglea’s Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady swung open at dawn last Saturday, the narrow streets of L-Isla smelled less of sea salt and more of…
From the Gospel: Sauntering in true freedom How Valletta’s Sunday promenade became a living parable of liberation On any given Sunday at 10:30 a.m., the bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral have barely finished their cascade when a slow tide of Maltese families, Ghana-band guitar cases, and selfie-snapping cruise-ship passengers begins to seep out of Republic…
Il-Beżżul Bieżel – September 7, 2025: The Day Valletta’s Streets Became a Living Carnival At 6:47 a.m. on Sunday, 7 September 2025, the bronze tongue of St John’s Co-Cathedral bell began its slow swing and, before the echo reached Republic Street, the first “beżżul” was already airborne. A blood-orange ħobża, crust still warm from the…
Letters to the Editor: Malta’s Sunday-Morning Pulse 7 September 2025, Valletta – While the rest of Europe is still rubbing sleep from its eyes, Malta is already arguing over coffee. The Times of Malta’s letters page today is thicker than a ftira at a village festa, and the ink is barely dry before copies are…
New PN leader Alex Borg pledges to work ‘side by side’ with Adrian Delia The Pietà headquarters of the Nationalist Party (PN) echoed with applause on Saturday evening as Alex Borg, a 42-year-old lawyer from Rabat, took the stage as the freshly elected leader and immediately pledged to govern “shoulder to shoulder” with his former…
As it happened: Alex Borg wins PN leadership contest by just 44 votes By Hot Malta Newsroom Valletta’s Freedom Square was still echoing with church bells at 10:03 p.m. last night when the Nationalist Party’s electoral commission chair read out the final tally: Alex Borg 3,887, Stanley Zammit 3,843. A collective gasp rippled through the…
Alex Borg – from Mr World Malta to the PN’s new leader By Hot Malta Newsroom Sliema’s seaside promenade was unusually busy at 7 a.m. on a humid Tuesday; fishermen still mending nets, pensioners power-walking in numbered bibs, and a small scrum of journalists outside Café du Parc. They were waiting for the man who,…
