Trump’s ‘Department of War’ Rebrand Sends Ripples Through Valletta’s Café Bars By Luke Vella, Hot Malta Correspondent Valletta – At 10 a.m. on a humid Thursday, the chatter inside Caffè Cordina was not about the latest Pastizzi Festival, but about Donald Trump. The former U.S. president had just hailed the proposed re-naming of the Pentagon’s…
PN to Elect New Leader Today: A Nation Watches as the Opposition Turns the Page Valletta’s morning cafés are buzzing louder than usual. By the time the church bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral strike ten, delegates of the Nationalist Party (PN) will be locked inside the old Phoenicia Hotel ballroom, deciding who gets to wake…
Yvette Cooper becomes new UK foreign minister, Lammy deputy PM: What it means for Malta Valletta woke up this morning to news that will ripple across the azure waters of the Channel faster than a Gozo fast-ferry: Yvette Cooper has been appointed the United Kingdom’s first female Foreign Secretary in 13 years, while David Lammy…
**Good governance is not a priority for Robert Abela: ADPD says** In the shadow of Valletta’s honey-coloured bastions, where the Knights once etched their code of honour into limestone, Malta’s youngest political party has thrown down a gauntlet that echoes across the narrow streets of the capital. ADPD, the Green party forged from the merger…
UK DEPUTY PM ANGELA RAYNER QUITS – WHAT IT MEANS FOR MALTA’S PROPERTY-DRIVEN ECONOMY Valletta woke up to news that felt closer to home than usual this morning. Angela Rayner, Britain’s charismatic Deputy Prime Minister, resigned overnight after weeks of scrutiny over a disputed capital-gains tax bill on the sale of her former council house….
Maltese most likely to believe their country would benefit from EU enlargement – and they’re not shy about saying it Walk past any kazin in Birkirkara at sunset and you’ll hear the same spirited debate that’s been echoing across the islands since 2004: “Kemm se jkun ahjar Malta b’aktar pajjiżi fil-UE?” According to the latest…
Ġustizzja għal Artna: NGOs unite to block ‘fast-track’ planning reform that could redraw Malta’s skyline By Luke Vella – Hot Malta Valletta’s sun-baked streets echoed with chants of “Ġustizzja għal Artna – Justice for Our Land!” on Tuesday evening as a coalition of 23 NGOs launched an island-wide campaign against the government’s latest planning reform….
**”Ġustizzja għal Artna”: NGOs unite against planning reforms they say will “sell Malta to the highest bidder”** Valletta’s Republic Street echoed with chants of “Mhux għalina, mhux għal uliedna!” yesterday as 14 Maltese environmental and heritage NGOs unfurled a 40-metre banner from the Upper Barrakka Gardens, launching the Ġustizzja għal Artna (Justice for Our Land)…
Why I stand with Alex Borg By A Malta-based correspondent for Hot Malta The first time I met Alex Borg was not in the glossy lobby of some Valletta co-working hub, but under the flickering yellow bulb of a traditional Maltese kiosk in Birkirkara, where the smell of ftira and kinnie mingled with the late-summer…
A rare moment of cross-party harmony echoed through Parliament this week when Health Minister Chris Fearne and two contenders for the Nationalist Party leadership, Adrian Delia and Bernard Grech, united behind a Maltese proposal for a sweeping “right to be forgotten”. The initiative, tabled by Labour back-bencher Alex Muscat, would allow citizens to request the…
PM Unaware: Israeli Jets’ ‘Irregular’ Use of Maltese Skies Sparks Island-Wide Debate By Hot Malta Newsroom Valletta’s Upper Barrakka Gardens were unusually busy on Tuesday evening, not with tourists snapping sunset photos, but with Maltese families debating the same question: how did foreign military aircraft slip through our airspace without the Prime Minister even knowing?…
Opposition cries ‘chaos’ as Pietà Labour councillor tears up party card ———————————————————————- It took one terse Facebook post to rattle the red fortress of Malta’s governing party. On Tuesday evening, Labour councillor Etienne Borg announced his resignation from Partit Laburista with the line: “I can no longer defend what I no longer recognise.” Within minutes,…
