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,…
Majority of Maltese Feel Country on Right Track for First Time Since 2022 By a Hot Malta Correspondent | 09 June 2024 For the first time in 24 months, more Maltese than not believe Malta is “heading in the right direction,” according to the latest MaltaToday survey released this morning. The turnaround—51 % positive versus…
Watch: People with disabilities ‘imprisoned’ in their flats for over a month By Hot Malta Correspondent A grainy video circulating on Maltese social media this week shows a wheelchair user banging on a locked lift door in a Buġibba block while his neighbour, a blind woman, tries to calm him from the stairwell above. For…
Valletta quietens at dusk, the honey-coloured bastions glowing above Grand Harbour while pushchairs and prayer-beads swing side-by-side on the Barakka lift. Yet even here, 1,800 kilometres from Gaza City, Israel’s military build-up feels close enough to touch. Over the past week, the Maltese have followed each new brigade, each tank column, with a particular intimacy…
Over 1,200 Maltese residents have already signed up for free consultations with the newly launched BCA Lawyers & Architects clinic, turning what began as a modest community initiative into a nationwide conversation about access to justice and good design. The figures, released this morning by the Building & Construction Alliance (BCA), have taken even the…
The hearts and minds behind the platform that redefined local commerce in Malta By Luke Vella, Hot Malta On a slow Tuesday afternoon in 2018, while most of Sliema was sipping espresso on the front, three friends huddled around a wobbly table in a back-street café and sketched something on a napkin that would later…
Valletta – A well-known chef who once championed farm-to-table menus and championed Maltese produce on prime-time TV cooking shows appeared behind the reinforced glass of the Criminal Court on Thursday, charged with raping and stalking his wife after allegedly subjecting her to years of systematic physical and psychological abuse. The 41-year-old restaurateur, whose downtown Valletta…
