Valletta’s historic Grandmaster’s Palace courtyard was packed to the rafters last night as Alex Borg stepped up to the makeshift stone podium and addressed his first mass meeting as leader of the tiny but influential Partit Demokratiku. Fireworks from a nearby festa lit the sky in accidental sync with his opening words—“Malta, tonight we turn…
Watch live: Alex Borg addresses his first mass meeting as party leader By Hot Malta Newsroom | 19:45 • 14 June 2024 Valletta’s Republic Street is already humming two hours before show-time. Pensioners perch on plastic yellow chairs clutching paper fans printed with the new party logo; teenagers in sleeveless tops weave between them selling…
**Thirty-five hours without food, water, or shade: Valletta vigil links Malta to Gaza’s hunger** By 8am yesterday the plastic chairs outside Malta’s Prime Minister’s office already looked baked by the sun. A circle of activists—some barefoot, some in kufiyyas, one cradling a toddler—sat in silence, refusing the bottles of water passers-by offered. They had been…
Activists fast for 35 hours outside Castille in solidarity with Gaza By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s Republic Street is no stranger to protest, but the scene that unfolded outside the Prime Minister’s Office this weekend felt different: a circle of Maltese citizens, students, grandparents and children sitting quietly on fold-up chairs, sipping only water, their…
A late-night joy-ride across Gozo’s silent coastal roads ended in twisted metal and handcuffs early yesterday, after a 24-year-old Birkirkara man allegedly hot-wired a Honda CBR parked outside a Xlendi guest-house, crashed into a dry-stone wall near the Ta’ Ċenċ cliffs and was arrested while trying to limp back towards the Mġarr ferry. Police said…
# From Kabul to Sliema: British Pensioners’ Prison Ordeal Resonates with Malta’s Expat Community The dramatic release of 73-year-old Peter Blaken and his wife Diana, 72, from an Afghan prison has sent ripples through Malta’s tight-knit British expatriate community, many of whom watched the unfolding crisis with a mixture of horror and recognition. The couple,…
**Trump’s $100k Visa Price Tag: Maltese Tech Talent Forced to Rethink the American Dream** Valletta – For two decades the ritual has been the same: finish top of your class at MCAST or the University of Malta, land a summer internship at a Santa Monica gaming studio or a Manhattan fintech, file the paperwork for…
Għadira’s Golden Summer: 319 Loggerhead Turtles Flipper-Power into the Mediterranean By Luke Caruana Sunday dawn at Għadira Bay broke to the sound of 47 tiny shells cracking in unison. By the time the last hatchling had skittered across the wet sand, Malta’s 2024 turtle season had clocked up 319 loggerhead babies—its most “successful” in a…
New dawn for Cana Movement as Dr. Andrew Consiglio elected president The Cana Movement, Malta’s best-known marriage-preparation and family-support NGO, has chosen a new leader. Dr. Andrew Consiglio, a 42-year-old lawyer and canon lawyer who has spent the last decade coordinating the organisation’s pastoral and legal teams, was confirmed as president on Saturday evening during…
**PN MP Sounds Alarm Over Deportation of Long-Time Ethiopian Residents After 15-18 Years in Malta** In a case that has sent shockwaves through Malta’s tight-knit migrant communities, Nationalist Party MP and home affairs spokesperson Beppe Fenech Adami has condemned the deportation of three Ethiopian nationals who had lived, worked, and built lives in Malta for…
**Malta Eyes Global Cultural Crown: Island Nation Seeks Seat on UNESCO’s Most Prestigious Stage** Valletta – In a move that could amplify Malta’s voice on the world’s most influential cultural stage, the island nation has formally submitted its candidacy for a seat on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the 21-country body that decides which monuments,…
# Three Baroque masterpieces rise again: Għaxaq parish church unveils its newly-conserved altarpieces **GĦAXAQ, MALTA** – The air inside the parish church of the Assumption of Our Lady was thick with incense and anticipation on Sunday morning as Rev. Archpriest Joe Zammit pulled back the burgundy velvet curtain on something no villager had seen in…
