Alex Borg – from Mr World Malta to the PN’s new leader By Hot Malta Newsroom Sliema’s seaside promenade was unusually busy at 7 a.m. on a humid Tuesday; fishermen still mending nets, pensioners power-walking in numbered bibs, and a small scrum of journalists outside Café du Parc. They were waiting for the man who,…
**Live: Alex Borg wins PN leadership contest by just 44 votes** In a nail-biting finish that will be remembered for years, Alex Borg has clinched the Nationalist Party leadership by a razor-thin margin of just 44 votes, marking one of the closest political contests in modern Maltese history. The extraordinary result came after a tense…
Live: Alex Borg declares ‘new PN chapter’ amid leadership vote chaos By our political desk | 20 June 2025, 20:47 CEST VALLETTA – In the humid courtyard of the Nationalist Party’s Pietà headquarters, Alex Borg raised a clenched fist above the crowd of flag-waving supporters and shouted, “Tonight we turn the page!” His declaration, delivered…
Live: Alex Borg declares ‘new PN chapter’ in dramatic race with Adrian Delia By Aria Zammit, Hot Malta Newsroom Floriana’s Granaries were still echoing with the brass-band strains of a village festa when Alex Borg stepped onto the impromptu stage, sleeves rolled, voice hoarse, and declared, “Il-PN tiegħu spiċċa – il-PN tagħna għadu kif beda.”…
Live: Alex Borg and Adrian Delia in nail-biting race By Hot Malta Newsroom | 21:47 CEST Floriana’s Independence Arena is crackling with the kind of electricity normally reserved for festa fireworks or a last-minute Eurovision vote. Tonight, however, the 2,500 seats are packed for a different kind of showdown: veteran pocket-billiards maestro Alex “The Sliema…
Watch: Neil Agius completes his Gozo 7 challenge – a Maltese odyssey that united two islands in awe By 04:30 yesterday, the usually quiet slipway at Mġarr ix-Xini was humming. Fishermen paused mending their nets, pastizzi were passed round in foil packets, and a small flotilla of traditional dgħajjes bobbed expectantly beside sleek RIBs. Everyone…
Gozo woke up on Friday to the kind of headline the sister island rarely sees: two local men, aged 28 and 34, marched into Victoria’s police headquarters to be formally charged over a brazen supermarket hold-up that unfolded on Wednesday evening at the Arkadia FoodExpress on Triq ir-Repubblika. According to the arraignment, the pair—both from…
# Horror in Nigeria: 55 Resettled Families Massacred by Jihadists – Why Malta Should Care The Mediterranean sun was still rising over Valletta’s honey-stoned bastions on Monday when news broke that 55 internally displaced Nigerians—people who had already fled Boko Haram once—were slaughtered in their sleep by jihadists who stormed a government-backed resettlement camp in…
Valletta, Malta – As dawn broke over the Grand Harbour on Wednesday, Maltese commuters scrolling through their phones were confronted with a chilling video: a 14-storey tower in Gaza City collapsing into grey dust after an Israeli airstrike. Within minutes, the same footage was looping on ONE Radio’s breakfast show and filling parish WhatsApp groups…
In pictures: how three Maltese lenses are about to take Valletta’s stories to the world stage The courtyard of the Auberge d’Italie was buzzing yesterday evening, not with tourists hunting for the perfect Instagram angle, but with Maltese photographers quietly adjusting tripods and greeting cousins they hadn’t seen since last village festa. They were there…
Beckhams Choose Aki: How a Sliema Chef’s London Outpost Stole Victoria’s Birthday Spotlight Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday was never going to be low-key, but few on the Rock expected the candles to be lit on a plate in Mayfair prepared by a Maltese chef. On Saturday night David Beckham booked the entire first floor of…
Xemxija residents left fuming after repeated power cuts ——————————————————– By Luke Briffa – 09:45, 14 June 2024, St Paul’s Bay The summer sun had barely cleared the ridge above Mistra Bay when the lights in Xemxija blinked once, twice, then died. Again. For the third time in four days, the tiny seaside hamlet perched on…
