Simon once cycled to help kidney patients. Now his son is cycling for him By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s Grand Harbour shimmered like beaten copper as the first riders pushed off from the Barakka Lift on Sunday morning, but 24-year-old Luke Galea’s mind was on a smaller, quieter scene: his father Simon’s dialysis chair at…
**Suspended Sentence for Sliema Kiosk Theft Sparks Debate on Justice and Second Chances** A 44-year-old woman who stole €16,000 from a Sliema kiosk has been handed a two-year suspended sentence, prompting mixed reactions across Malta’s tight-knit community where the incident has become the talk of local coffee shops and Facebook groups. The court heard how…
Football-mad Malta woke up to a new era yesterday as the long-awaited National Football Centre was officially opened at Ta’ Qali, flanked by two bona-fide Italian legends who know what it takes to reach the very summit of the game. World-Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro and former Inter & Juventus striker Christian Vieri swapped the San…
Prime Minister Robert Abela this morning cut a ribbon of red-and-white ribbons to officially open the long-awaited National Football Centre at Ta’ Qali, hailing the €17 million complex as “a new chapter for Maltese sport that belongs to every village and every child who has ever chased a ball through a dusty alley.” The centre,…
Woman Seriously Injured in St Paul’s Bay Accident: A Wake-Up Call for Malta’s Busiest Resort Town By Hot Malta Newsroom | 09:45, 14 June 2024 ST PAUL’S BAY, MALTA – A 34-year-old Maltese woman is fighting for her life after a late-night collision on Triq il-Merħba, the palm-lined artery that funnels thousands of tourists daily…
# Watch: Blue Lagoon gets a digital twin to safeguard its future **Comino’s crown jewel is now immortalised in pixels as well as postcards, after University of Malta researchers created the island nation’s first “digital twin” of the Blue Lagoon. The hyper-real 3-D model – stitched together from 40,000 drone photographs and bathymetric scans –…
Fortina land deal shows ‘systemic corruption’ – Repubblika ———————————————————- Sliema’s glittering promenade, where elderly residents still recite rosaries on sea-front benches while influencers pose for sunset selfies, has become the latest theatre in Malta’s never-ending drama over public land. On Tuesday morning, as cruise passengers queued for ftira stalls nearby, activists from Repubblika laid a…
**“Gaza is burning,” minister says as Israel unleashes major bombardment – Maltese streets echo with calls for peace** Valletta’s usually sun-drenched Republic Street fell unusually quiet yesterday evening as 300 Maltese – Palestinians, Arabs, Jews and Maltese citizens – stood shoulder-to-shoulder outside Parliament, candles flickering in the warm March breeze. Their silence was broken only…
A centuries-old canvas that survived Napoleonic plunder, damp limestone walls and even a misguided 1970s varnish has been returned to its rightful home in the heart of Gozo, and the village of Żebbuġ greeted it like a long-lost relative. On Sunday, after a 14-month conservation campaign financed entirely by local donations, the 1768 oil painting…
**Gozo’s Stone Saints Go Postal: New MaltaPost Festa Stamps Celebrate Island’s Living Tradition** Victor Camilleri’s garage in Xagħra smells of paraffin and sawdust. For 35 years the 68-year-old has carved, sanded and painted the statues that will be hoisted on shoulders in August for the feast of the Assumption. This summer, however, his workshop has…
**Malta Marks September 16 with Pride, Promise and a Pinch of Pagentry** *by our newsroom | Tuesday, 16 September 2025* Valletta’s Grand Harbour cannon boomed at noon today, heralding a raft of national announcements that blended heritage, hard cash and high hopes for the future. While the rest of Europe treated Tuesday as routine, Malta…
Rubio Asks Qatar to Stay as Mediator After Israeli Strike: What Malta’s Century-Old Neutrality Teaches the World Valletta’s Upper Barrakka gardens were unusually busy at sunrise on Tuesday. Joggers paused mid-stride, phones tilted toward the horizon where, beyond the bastions, a Malta-flagged frigate slipped silently out of Grand Harbour. On deck, sailors in white gloves…
