**Watch: Promotional video released ahead of planning reform protest** A slick, 90-second promotional video dropped on Tuesday night and has already ricocheted through Maltese WhatsApp groups, Facebook feeds and the pigeon-loft gossip circuits of every village band club. Shot in the honeyed light of a recent golden-hour at Valletta’s Triton Fountain, the clip cuts between…
**Portelli Penthouses Push Through: Illegal High-Rise Approved in Latest Development Drama** In a move that has left legal experts scratching their heads and residents fuming, two penthouse apartments linked to developer Joseph Portelli have received final approval from the Planning Authority – despite a court having already declared them illegal. The penthouses, perched atop the…
Now you see it, now you don’t – the phrase that once belonged to circus magicians has become the unofficial soundtrack to Maltese life in 2024. One week a 17th-century townhouse in Sliema stands proud, its green wooden balcony catching the last rays of a Mediterranean sunset; the next, it’s a cloud of dust and…
Four-storey block across from historic chapel in Naxxar approved by PA Naxxar’s skyline is set to rise another notch after the Planning Authority green-lit a four-storey apartment block directly opposite the 17-century Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, a move that has split the tight-knit community between those hungry for new homes and guardians of the…
Watch: Objectors in uproar after Xlendi developers fail to show up for meeting By our staff reporter Gozitans packed the Xlendi parish hall last night expecting a long-promised explanation of how a boutique hotel could legally sprout nine storeys above the village’s skyline. Instead they found an empty table, two folded placards bearing the project’s…
Watch: ‘I do not want towers in Gozo’: Alex Borg ================================================ Gozo’s skyline—and soul—are once again at the centre of a heated national debate after Infrastructure Minister Alex Borg stared down the camera and declared, “I do not want towers in Gozo.” The 18-second clip, filmed outside the Ministry in Valletta and uploaded to TikTok…
Gozitan NGOs have declared open season on developer Alex Borg and the Planning Authority after Borg’s weekend boast that “high-rise will come to Gozo whether people like it or not.” In a joint statement released on Tuesday morning, 18 civic and environmental groups accused Borg of “treating the sister island like a Monopoly board” and…
**Fortina’s Contract U-Turn: Hotel Says It Would Pay Less Under Today’s Rules, Sparks Fresh Debate Over Sliema’s Changing Skyline** Sliema’s seafront has always been a stage where past and future wrestle for space: limestone town-houses stare up at glass towers, pensioners feed pigeons beneath cranes, and the scent of pastizzi mingles with chlorine from infinity…
Alliance Real Estate opens Gżira hub, betting on the town’s next chapter By Hot Malta Staff | Wednesday, 14 June 2023 The crane-dotted skyline of Gżira welcomed a different kind of addition this morning: a sleek, glass-fronted branch of Alliance Real Estate, the 11th office for the Maltese-owned agency since it set up shop in…
Ian Borg ‘uncertain’ when he found out about suppressed Fortina valuation – but Valletta’s skyline remembers everything Valletta’s limestone walls have seen their share of swaggering ministers come and go, but on Tuesday afternoon the stone seemed to blush as Foreign Minister Ian Borg stood outside Castille and told reporters he could not “pin-point the…
Robert Abela ‘shocked’ to hear Alex Borg’s comments on towers in Gozo By Hot Malta Newsroom VALLETTA – Prime Minister Robert Abela has declared himself “genuinely shocked” after Gozo Minister Clint Camilleri read aloud, in Cabinet, a private WhatsApp voice-note in which developer Alex Borg boasts that “every crane in Gozo is mine” and jokes…
Fortina and the real cost to the State By Hot Malta Staff The first time most Maltese children see Fortina, it is from the upper deck of a yellow school bus crawling along the Tigné seafront: a jagged white wall that looks as if someone has glued a slice of Miami to the edge of…
