**Momentum calls for reflection on the meaning of independence** As Malta marks another Independence Day, the activist group Momentum is urging the nation to look beyond the fireworks and fanfare to examine what freedom truly means for the islands today. Their call comes at a time when many Maltese are questioning whether the promises of…
**When Malta’s Tramlines Turned Deadly: The Forgotten Carnage of 1904** The morning of 17 February 1904 began like any other in Valletta: hawkers shouted prices for lampuki, church bells chimed for Tierce, and the new electric tram slid down Kingsway humming with modern promise. By 8:47 a.m., the promise lay shattered in a tangle of…
**Bridging Stone and Policy: How Malta’s Top Build Seminar is Rewriting the Rules of the Islands’ Skyline** Valletta’s 17th-century bastions have survived sieges, sunstroke, and selfie sticks, but they’ve never faced a challenger quite like Malta’s 2024 construction boom. On Friday, inside the vaulted halls of the Mediterranean Conference Centre—once a hospital for the Knights…
**Insight: The woman tasked with overhauling PN’s financial troubles** In the shadow of Castille, where political fortunes rise and fall with the Mediterranean tides, one woman is quietly attempting what many consider impossible: breathing financial life back into Malta’s opposition Nationalist Party. Maria Deguara, a 52-year-old former bank executive from Sliema, has inherited what insiders…
Survey vessel deployed for second Malta – Italy undersea cable: A new lifeline beneath the waves The azure channel between Malta and Sicily is more than a picturesque backdrop for sunset selfies; it is Malta’s umbilical cord to Europe. This week, the 85-metre survey vessel Ievoli Ivory dropped anchor off Marsaxlokk, her hull bristling with…
**Mind Over Matter: How Thought-Controlled Tech Could Transform Life in Malta** On a quiet morning in Msida, Maria Camilleri sits at her kitchen table, a sleek headband resting across her temples. With nothing but a concentrated thought, she dims the lights, starts her coffee machine, and queues up her favourite playlist – all without lifting…
**MaltaHip: elevating hip replacement innovation in Malta** On a sun-drenched morning at Mater Dei Hospital, 72-year-old Carmenu Pace from Żejtun takes his first pain-free steps in years. Just three weeks earlier, he received a cutting-edge hip replacement through MaltaHip – a revolutionary procedure that’s transforming lives across the Maltese Islands and positioning Malta as an…
Astrology’s appeal in uncertain times – why Malta is looking to the stars again By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s Republic Street after 9 p.m. feels like a village that forgot to sleep. Past the closed pharmacies and neon pastizzerias, a narrow staircase between two souvenir shops leads to a softly lit studio smelling of frankincense…
**MCAST Unveils First-Ever ‘Positivity Toolkit’ to Help Maltese Students Beat Exam Stress and Winter Blues** Paola – While most students were still shaking sand out of their backpacks after the long Easter weekend, lecturers at Malta’s largest further-education college were quietly rolling out a home-grown weapon against anxiety. On Tuesday morning, inside a sun-lit atrium…
Fortina and the real cost to the State By Hot Malta Staff The first time most Maltese children see Fortina, it is from the upper deck of a yellow school bus crawling along the Tigné seafront: a jagged white wall that looks as if someone has glued a slice of Miami to the edge of…
Floriana’s Independence Arena was already humming at 07:30 this morning when Education Minister Dr. Justyne Caruana stepped up to the dais and declared 21 September 2025 “a textbook example of how Malta does more than mark history—we make it.” Against a backdrop of vintage luzzu sails dyed in the new national palette of white, red…
**Pharmacies open today – September 21, 2025: your Sunday lifeline across Malta and Gozo** It’s just past 09:00 on the third Sunday of September and the narrow streets of Valletta are already humming with cruise-ship day-trippers clutching gelato. Yet tucked behind the Baroque façade of Republic Street, one green-cross sign is flashing brighter than the…
