Watch: How roadside drug tests will work in practice – and why every Maltese driver needs to pay attention Just after sunrise on a Thursday in Gżira, Transport Malta officers set up a discreet checkpoint beside the yacht marina. A queue of commuters inch forward, coffee cups in hand, when a plain-clothes officer waves a…
Floriana’s regeneration begins with its people By Hot Malta Correspondent If you walk through Floriana at 7 a.m. on any weekday you will find the same ritual: elderly men at the Granaries rolling cigarettes and arguing about football, schoolchildren chasing pigeons across Piazza San Publiju, and the scent of ftira biż-żejt drifting from the hole-in-the-wall…
“More than just striptease”: how Undine LaVerve brought Burlesque to Malta by Hot Malta On a balmy Friday in Valletta, the baroque arches of Splendid Theatre glow a soft crimson. Feather boas brush against the ancient limestone, sequins glitter under the chandeliers, and a ripple of anticipation moves through the crowd as the band strikes…
Zone Zero: The Rise of Effortless Exercise How Malta’s Balcony Joggers, Seafront Strollers and Sunday Ġbejna Hunters are Rewriting the Fitness Rulebook by Luke Vella | Hot Malta On a breezy Tuesday evening in Sliema, 72-year-old Ġemma Pace is doing what she calls “exercise without the exercise.” Perched on a wooden bench facing Manoel Island,…
Majority of Maltese Feel Country on Right Track for First Time Since 2022 By a Hot Malta Correspondent | 09 June 2024 For the first time in 24 months, more Maltese than not believe Malta is “heading in the right direction,” according to the latest MaltaToday survey released this morning. The turnaround—51 % positive versus…
Fort Binġemma – what next? Locals demand a future worthy of Mellieħa’s silent sentinel From the ridge above Għajn Tuffieħa, the honey-coloured limestone of Fort Binġemma glows every sunset like a half-remembered promise. Built by the British in the 1870s to deter an Italian invasion that never came, the fort has spent most of its…
Watch: People with disabilities ‘imprisoned’ in their flats for over a month By Hot Malta Correspondent A grainy video circulating on Maltese social media this week shows a wheelchair user banging on a locked lift door in a Buġibba block while his neighbour, a blind woman, tries to calm him from the stairwell above. For…
Valletta quietens at dusk, the honey-coloured bastions glowing above Grand Harbour while pushchairs and prayer-beads swing side-by-side on the Barakka lift. Yet even here, 1,800 kilometres from Gaza City, Israel’s military build-up feels close enough to touch. Over the past week, the Maltese have followed each new brigade, each tank column, with a particular intimacy…
Għajn Dwieli tunnel closed for four days next week – here’s how Paola and the Three Cities will cope The rhythmic honk that once echoed through the Għajn Dwieli tunnel will fall silent next Monday to Thursday as Infrastructure Malta shuts both bores for urgent waterproofing works. For drivers who use the 400-metre underpass to…
Over 1,200 Maltese residents have already signed up for free consultations with the newly launched BCA Lawyers & Architects clinic, turning what began as a modest community initiative into a nationwide conversation about access to justice and good design. The figures, released this morning by the Building & Construction Alliance (BCA), have taken even the…
The hearts and minds behind the platform that redefined local commerce in Malta By Luke Vella, Hot Malta On a slow Tuesday afternoon in 2018, while most of Sliema was sipping espresso on the front, three friends huddled around a wobbly table in a back-street café and sketched something on a napkin that would later…
Kathryn Bigelow Returns to Venice with Political Thriller – Why Malta Should Watch Closely By Hot Malta Staff Writer VENICE – As the 81st Venice Film Festival unfurls its red carpet this week, American director Kathryn Bigelow storms back into the Lido with “Requiem for the Fallen,” a pulse-quickening political thriller set against a fictional…
