**Cats get dementia too – here are the eight signs to look out for** Valletta retiree Maria Camilleri first noticed something was off when 17-year-old Tigger strolled onto her Sliema balcony and forgot how to use the cat-flap he’d flown through for a decade. “He just sat there, meowing at the glass, as if the…
**Hedymeles: A Fairytale for Adults That’s Enchanting Malta’s Creative Scene** In a country where Baroque facades meet TikTok trends, a new hybrid creature has landed: *Hedymeles*, a limited-edition art-and-text volume that reads like a Brothers Grimm tale after three shots of local honey liquor. The project—half illuminated manuscript, half graphic novel—was quietly launched last month…
Letters to the editor – September 17, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s morning sun had barely hit the honey-coloured stones of Republic Street when the first email landed in our inbox. By 09:30, the digital pile numbered 47; by deadline, 123. In a country where the population could fit inside a medium-sized Italian stadium,…
**Domestic Violence Cases Need Management, Not Mayhem: Malta’s Urgent Call for Systemic Change** The echo of breaking glass at 3 AM on a narrow Valletta street. A neighbour’s whispered phone call to 179. The blue flashing lights that follow. These scenes have become tragically familiar across Malta’s townhouse-lined villages, where behind centuries-old limestone façades, domestic…
**Protesters Beam Epstein Video at UK Castle Before Trump Visit: A Maltese Lens on Global Power and Accountability** As protesters projected images of Jeffrey Epstein onto the walls of Buckingham Palace ahead of Donald Trump’s visit to the UK, the spectacle resonated far beyond British shores—reaching the sun-drenched limestone balconies of Valletta and prompting Maltese…
A Maltese Feast Tradition in Spain: How Valletta’s Band Club Brought Festa Fire to Seville By Luke Caruana The April air in Seville’s Macarena district crackled with saffron and brass. Locals leaned from wrought-iron balconies as a red-and-white confetti storm swirled above the procession. At first glance it looked like any Spanish Semana Santa march:…
Valletta’s morning light catches the honey-stone of the bastions and, for a second, the capital looks unchanged since 1565. Look closer, though, and you’ll spot rooftop solar panels glinting beside baroque statues, delivery drones skimming the Grand Harbour where galleys once moored, and a start-up crew live-streaming their pitch from a 17th-century palazzo. That contrast—antique…
# Announcements – September 17, 2025: A Maltese Mosaic of Change, Celebration, and Community Spirit Valletta’s morning sun glinted off the baroque balconies as Prime Minister Robert Abela stepped up to the microphone in St George’s Square, flanked by the scarlet-coated Malta Philharmonic Orchestra brass section. The date—17 September 2025—will be etched into parish logbooks…
**Architects warn Malta’s construction frenzy is ‘eating the future’ – and the past** Valletta – Walk down any village street at 6 a.m. and the soundtrack is identical: pneumatic hammers, steel cutters and the low rumble of trucks dumping limestone dust into the dawn. To many Maltese, the noise has become the heartbeat of a…
‘In bad taste’: Joseph Muscat defends dead judge in Fortina report scandal By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s seafront was still buzzing with Tuesday-afternoon ice-cream queues when former prime minister Joseph Muscat took to Facebook to slam a parliamentary report that blamed the late Judge Antonio Mizzi for the 1990s Fortina hotel concession. Within minutes, the…
A new chapter in Maltese justice opened this morning as President Myriam Spiteri Debono cut the ribbon on the long-awaited Court Building for Inquiring Magistrates in Floriana, a €14 million project that fuses 19th-century limestone grandeur with solar-panelled roofs and AI-ready courtrooms. For the first time since the 1830s, Malta’s examining magistrates—once relegated to cramped…
# Delta Lands in Malta: First-Ever Direct New York Route to Launch June 2024 **History takes flight next summer as Delta Air Lines becomes the first American carrier to plant its colours at Malta International, promising a non-stop bridge between the archipelago and the Big Apple that could redraw the islands’ tourism map and rekindle…
