### ‘Civil society should apply for Daphne monument’: Alex Agius Saliba In a landmark move that resonates deeply with Maltese society, EU Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Alex Agius Saliba has urged local civil society organizations to apply for funding to establish a monument in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The proposal, which has garnered…
# The autocracies of Russia and the USA: A Maltese mirror on global power games Valletta’s morning cafés were buzzing last week, but the topic wasn’t the usual village festa or summer beach plans. Instead, pensioners in Republic Street’s coffee shops swapped TikTok clips of Russian police bundling protesters into vans and American campus officers…
Letters to the editor – September 26, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s 17th-century printing press, now a hip wine-bar by night, still smells of ink at dawn. That scent drifted across the Grand Harbour this morning as editors at Times of Malta, Malta Today and The Shift unsealed the weekly postbag—an analog ritual that,…
Letters to the editor – September 22, 2025 Hot Malta The Monday-morning ritual is the same in every bar from Birkirkara to Birżebbuġa: espresso, a warm pastizz, and the rustle of the Times of Malta opinion pages. But this week the letters section crackled like a summer power-cut—sparks flying over traffic, turtles, and a €2…
Letters to the editor – September 21, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s dawn cafés were already humming when the Times of Malta’s weekend edition hit the doorsteps. By 7 a.m., the paper’s letters page—three crisp columns under the fold—had become the islands’ most democratic parliament. Between sips of ħobż-biż-żejt and iced coffee, Maltese from…
Our leaders say they are outraged… really? A Maltese reality check beneath the fireworks and façades By [Hot Malta Staff] Valletta’s balconies were still dripping red after last week’s spontaneous protest, yet by the time the cannons fired for the Sette Giugno ceremony, the Prime Minister was already tweeting about “national outrage” over yet another…
