**Watch: ‘I would have tried to stop Bernard Grech resigning had I known’ – Delia** In a candid televised moment that has set Maltese living rooms and Facebook comment sections ablaze, former Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia admitted he would have moved to block Bernard Grech’s recent resignation had he been given advance warning. The…
**Building smarter, safer roads: How Malta is steering toward a tech-driven traffic future** The Ħamrun traffic lights flickered red at 07:43 on a Tuesday, and within seconds a tailback stretched past the pastizzeria, the lotto booth, and the shrine of the Madonna that locals still touch for luck. It’s the same scene in Msida, in…
Adrian Delia: ‘I’d have tried to stop Bernard Grech resigning if I’d known’ Sliema’s seaside promenade was still buzzing with Tuesday-night joggers when Adrian Delia’s WhatsApp lit up with the news: Bernard Grech was about to walk. By the time the former Nationalist Party leader had parked his battered VW Golf outside his St Julian’s…
From a pretend Pope to an invisible puppy: Online fraud costing Malta millions By Hot Malta staff Ħamrun grandmother Rita Camilleri still keeps the WhatsApp voice-note on her phone. A warm, fatherly voice—complete with Italian accent—thanks her for her “generous tithe to the Holy See” and promises a private blessing once the €3,000 “processing fee”…
**Vittoriosa Mourns: Sunday Shooting Claims Life as Malta’s Silent Gun Crisis Deepens** The narrow, honey-coloured alleys of Vittoriosa—usually echoing with the clack of church bells and the hiss of espresso machines—fell unnaturally silent yesterday after hospital officials confirmed that the 34-year-old man gunned down on Triq il-Għażżienin late Sunday night has succumbed to his injuries….
Ian Borg ‘uncertain’ when he found out about suppressed Fortina valuation – but Valletta’s skyline remembers everything Valletta’s limestone walls have seen their share of swaggering ministers come and go, but on Tuesday afternoon the stone seemed to blush as Foreign Minister Ian Borg stood outside Castille and told reporters he could not “pin-point the…
Back to school: the importance of educators’ well-being By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – While parents scramble for stationery deals in Hamrun’s back-to-school markets and children compare rainbow-coloured lunchboxes, a quieter conversation is unfolding in staffrooms across the archipelago: how are the teachers themselves doing? This year, Malta’s 7,700 state-school educators return to classrooms still…
The way we are: our virtues A small-island survival kit forged by limestone, limestone dust, and each other Walk down any village core at 06:30 and you’ll hear the first metal shutter rattle up like a church bell in reverse. Someone is sweeping yesterday’s dust off the doorstep, someone else is already arguing—politely—about who last…
Letters to the editor – September 22, 2025 Hot Malta The Monday-morning ritual is the same in every bar from Birkirkara to Birżebbuġa: espresso, a warm pastizz, and the rustle of the Times of Malta opinion pages. But this week the letters section crackled like a summer power-cut—sparks flying over traffic, turtles, and a €2…
Floriana’s Independence Arena was already humming by 06:30 this morning as Prime Minister Roberta Pace took to the dais for the first of three back-to-back announcements that will shape Malta’s autumn. With the Knights’ banners overhead still flapping from last night’s village festa fireworks, Pace unveiled a €42 million “Green Roofs Initiative” that will subsidise…
Kim Jong-un’s Valentine to Trump: What Malta Can Learn From a Dictator’s “Fond Memories” Valletta’s café chatter on Tuesday skipped the usual Eurovision odds and leapt straight to Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s surprise confession—that he still has “fond memories” of Donald Trump and is open to fresh talks—was scrolling across Times of Malta’s…
# Operator suspended after runaway jet ski crashes at St Paul’s Bay **St Paul’s Bay** – A summer afternoon on Malta’s north-eastern shoreline turned chaotic on Monday when an unmanned jet-ski ploughed into a group of bathers, injuring two tourists and prompting Transport Malta to suspend the operator’s licence with immediate effect. The incident, captured…
