UK DEPUTY PM ANGELA RAYNER QUITS – WHAT IT MEANS FOR MALTA’S PROPERTY-DRIVEN ECONOMY Valletta woke up to news that felt closer to home than usual this morning. Angela Rayner, Britain’s charismatic Deputy Prime Minister, resigned overnight after weeks of scrutiny over a disputed capital-gains tax bill on the sale of her former council house….
Gardener Denied Bail After Biting Another Man’s Finger in Sliema Street Brawl A 42-year-old Ħamrun gardener was remanded in custody on Tuesday after a late-night street fight in Sliema ended with one man’s finger almost severed and the other tasting blood—literally. Magistrate Claire Zammit Stafrace denied bail for Joseph “Ġużi” Pace, arguing that the accused…
**Armani’s Enduring Thread: How a Milan Legend Wove Himself into Malta’s Style Story** Valletta’s Republic Street was unusually hushed last Saturday morning, the only sound the metallic rustle of shop shutters rising. Then, as if on cue, a woman stepped out of Caffe Cordina in a biscuit-coloured linen blazer that every passer-by recognised: relaxed shoulders,…
Freeport terminal expansion will host ships larger than four football pitches – and Marsaxlokk village is watching nervously By the time the ferry from Ħaż-Żabbar docks at Marsaxlokk, the horizon over Delimara is already a moving wall of steel. The latest container giants – each longer than four football pitches laid end-to-end – glide past…
‘Mama, I just need €20 more, I swear I’ll stop tomorrow.’ Those words—repeated for years—left an elderly Gozitan couple so desperate that their kitchen cupboards were bare except for a half-empty jar of għasel tal-ħarrub. Yesterday, at the Gozo Courts in Victoria, their 32-year-old son admitted to “habitually extorting” his parents, forcing them to choose…
Maltese most likely to believe their country would benefit from EU enlargement – and they’re not shy about saying it Walk past any kazin in Birkirkara at sunset and you’ll hear the same spirited debate that’s been echoing across the islands since 2004: “Kemm se jkun ahjar Malta b’aktar pajjiżi fil-UE?” According to the latest…
Woman Tracked by Husband Asks Court to Drop Case: A Quiet Revolution on a Quiet Island By Hot Malta Staff Sliema, Malta – When 38-year-old Maria* stepped into the Civil Court on Tuesday morning, she carried more than a brown leather folder with her filed affidavits. She carried the weight of an island wrestling with…
Two injured after rush-hour smash-up on Gżira seafront as shocked diners look on =============================================================================== Gżira’s normally breezy seafront turned into a scene of shattered glass and urgent sirens on Tuesday evening when a head-on collision between a white Toyota Vitz and a grey Suzuki Swift left two drivers injured and the whole neighbourhood rattled. The…
A brazen mid-morning hold-up in Victoria sent shockwaves through Gozo on Tuesday when a lone robber stormed a popular boutique on Republic Street, brandishing what turned out to be an imitation pistol and fleeing with a small haul of cash. Within forty minutes, the 27-year-old Żebbuġ resident was in handcuffs aboard the Gozo Channel ferry,…
Ġustizzja għal Artna: NGOs unite to block ‘fast-track’ planning reform that could redraw Malta’s skyline By Luke Vella – Hot Malta Valletta’s sun-baked streets echoed with chants of “Ġustizzja għal Artna – Justice for Our Land!” on Tuesday evening as a coalition of 23 NGOs launched an island-wide campaign against the government’s latest planning reform….
**”Ġustizzja għal Artna”: NGOs unite against planning reforms they say will “sell Malta to the highest bidder”** Valletta’s Republic Street echoed with chants of “Mhux għalina, mhux għal uliedna!” yesterday as 14 Maltese environmental and heritage NGOs unfurled a 40-metre banner from the Upper Barrakka Gardens, launching the Ġustizzja għal Artna (Justice for Our Land)…
Why I stand with Alex Borg By A Malta-based correspondent for Hot Malta The first time I met Alex Borg was not in the glossy lobby of some Valletta co-working hub, but under the flickering yellow bulb of a traditional Maltese kiosk in Birkirkara, where the smell of ftira and kinnie mingled with the late-summer…
