# Burlò – September 29, 2025: Valletta’s Streets Turn to Honey-Gold as Malta’s Most Photogenic Harvest Festival Returns Valletta awoke to the smell of carob and anise drifting over the Grand Harbour before the cannon even fired. By 6 a.m., knife-sharp shadows still striped Republic Street, but the first burlò stalls were already glowing under…
A fair balance of interests: how Maltese society is re-writing the social contract By Hot Malta Newsroom | 09 June 2025, 07:30 Valletta’s Republic Street at 11 a.m. feels like the whole island squeezed into 600 metres: tourists photographing the newly restored Tritons Fountain, pensioners arguing over ħobż biż-żejt prices, shop-hands stacking boxes of Cisk,…
Valletta’s morning sun glints off the new stainless-steel handrails that now snake around the renovated Triton Fountain, but just a few metres away a €4 cappuccino arrives without a paper receipt—because the Brussels-mandated fiscal printer is “still updating.” It is a tiny, almost comic contradiction, yet it captures the larger Maltese mood: we are living…
**Government ‘threatening’ to cancel Midi contract by March** The Maltese government has issued a stark ultimatum to Midi plc, the developers behind the long-delayed and controversial Tigné Point project: shape up by March or ship out. The threat to cancel the 1999 concession agreement has sent shockwaves through the local business community, reigniting debates over…
**Four Killed in Attack on Northern US Mormon Church: Malta’s Tiny LDS Community Grieves from Afar** Valletta – As news broke of a horrific shooting at a Mormon church in the northern United States that left four worshippers dead, Malta’s own minuscule Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) congregation gathered in a quiet…
**Dead on a Foreign Shore: How a Migrant’s Tragedy in France Echoes in Malta’s Living-Rooms** By 7 a.m. on Tuesday, the WhatsApp forwards had already landed in Birkirkara, Żabbar and Sliema: a blurred photo of a young man in soaked denim, face turned to the sky on a windswept Normandy beach. By noon, Maltese Facebook…
In pictures: Malta International Airshow draws to a close after weekend of thunder, pride and pastizzi-fuelled crowds Ħaġar Qim echoed to the sound of afterburners on Sunday evening as the 2024 Malta International Airshow signed off with a final, gravity-defying roll from the Italian Frecce Tricolori, their green-white-red smoke trails drifting out over the same…
Trump Hints at “Something Special” in Middle East Talks—What It Could Mean for Malta’s Balconies, Businesses, and Beaches Valletta’s evening passeggiata was in full swing on Tuesday when Donald Trump’s voice crackled over CNN International on the TV above the counter at Serkin Crystal Palace. “We’re working on something very special,” the former—and possibly future—US…
**Mosta’s Hidden Gem Reclaims Its Glory: Protected Tal-Wej Site Freed from Decades of Rubbish** For years, commuters whizzing along Mosta’s Tal-Wej road knew the place only for the stench. Behind a crumbling rubble wall, a protected depression—once a seasonal lake celebrated in 19th-century water-colours—had mutated into a fly-tipped jungle of broken fridges, sofa skeletons and,…
**Valletta Road Reopens After Pedestrian Left Fighting for Life in Dawn Van Strike** A 42-year-old Birżebbuġa man is battling critical injuries at Mater Dei Hospital after being struck by a delivery van on the capital’s busiest artery during Tuesday’s pre-dawn rush, prompting fresh calls for “urgent” traffic-calming measures in a city where narrow Renaissance streets…
**Danish Drone Ban Grounds Malta’s EU Summit Coverage – And Our Hobby Pilots Too** *Copenhagen’s week-long no-fly zone for hobby drones is rippling across the continent, forcing Maltese journalists, wedding videographers and weekend pilots to improvise.* By the time the first EU leaders touched down in Copenhagen on Monday, every civilian drone in Denmark had…
Francis Ebejer beyond his words A quiet afternoon in Ġnejna Bay, and the limestone cliffs seem to echo dialogue that was never spoken aloud. Tourists snap photos of the azure window that isn’t there anymore; locals shuffle out of the water arguing about parking tickets. Nobody mentions the playwright who once mapped this exact coastline…
