Watch: Heaviest piece of Msida flyover is installed By Hot Malta staff A hush fell over the Msida yacht marina at 05:47 this morning as the last slab of caramel-coloured concrete—78 metres long, 4.2 metres high and weighing more than a Boeing 747—inched into place like a giant Lego brick. By 06:12 the deed was…
**Ten ODZ Villas Proposed Opposite Planned Large Xemxija Project** Xemxija Bay, the sleepy inlet whose honey-coloured ramparts have sheltered Roman grain stores, 17th-century fish farms and Sunday-morning bathers in equal measure, is bracing for a second development wave. Barely six months after the government issued a call for proposals to turn the neighbouring Mistra Valley…
Three Men Repatriated After Years of Living in Malta’s Shadows By Hot Malta Newsroom Valletta – At dawn on Tuesday, as shopkeepers along Merchant Street raised their shutters and the first pastizzi carts hissed with oil, three men boarded a military-chartered flight at Malta International Airport and disappeared into the sky. None of them had…
The future is closer than you think A Maltese dawn breaks over a skyline that would have looked like science-fiction to our grandparents. Silent electric ferries glide across Valletta’s Grand Harbour, their batteries charged by the same sun that now powers three out of every ten rooftops on the archipelago. Drones buzz above the Three…
**Silent Shadows: When a Tourist’s Refusal Shakes Malta’s Conscience** The call came in at 02:47 on a humid Sunday in late June, the kind of night when St Julian’s smells of spilt vodka, frying hamburgers and the faint salt sting of the incoming tide. Two young Italian women, holiday-flat neighbours, phoned 112 to report that…
Mater Dei’s corridors are filling with the sound of coughing again, but this time it isn’t tourists keeled over by July heat—it’s nanniet who danced at last month’s festa and now can’t catch their breath. Public-health officials confirmed this week that Malta is riding a sharp summer wave of H1N1 influenza, the same strain that…
# Journalism in an uncertain age: Malta’s newsrooms navigate AI, lawsuits and a public that scrolls faster than it reads Valletta – The telex machine that once clattered away in *Times of Malta*’s old Fleet Street newsroom has been replaced by a Slack channel ping, but the existential question hanging over Maltese journalism is louder…
Floriana’s Independence Arena was already humming by 07:30 this morning as Prime Minister Roberta Metsola stepped up to the microphone and declared 15 September 2025 “a hinge day for the Maltese decade”. In a 23-minute address—streamed live on every bus-stop screen from Valletta to Gozo—she unveiled a triple package that will redraw the archipelago’s social…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour has seen every empire come and go—Phoenicians, Knights, French, British—each claiming “legitimate interests” while the islanders quietly kept fishing. So when Russian diplomats insist their invasion of Ukraine is merely the protection of historic rights, Maltese ears prick up with a familiar mix of scepticism and survival instinct. In cafés from Sliema…
**CrediaBank Probe: Maltese Shareholder Speaks Out, Island Waits for Fallout** A Maltese shareholder in the embattled CrediaBank has broken his silence, confirming he is part of an ongoing international probe but insisting he is “confident” he will not face trial. The statement, delivered in a carefully-worded video released to Hot Malta late Tuesday night, is…
Letters to the editor – September 15, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s 17th-century printing press at the National Library is humming again, but this time it’s not stamping out parish notices for knights. Every Monday morning volunteers feed a stack of A4 sheets into the antique machine and produce 2,000 copies of “Ittra Maltija”,…
Ġuvni Nanna? Influenza A(H3N2) is sweeping through Malta’s over-65s at twice last summer’s pace, leaving families scrambling to reschedule festa fireworks, boat trips and long-awaited weddings that were meant to mark the island’s first restriction-free season since 2019. Public-health data released yesterday by the Superintendence of Public Health show that laboratory-confirmed H3N2 cases in people…
