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Beloved Gozitan Grandmother Critical After Victoria Crash: Island Unites in Prayer and Demands Traffic Safety Reform
ByHot Malta 25 September 2025

**Elderly Gozitan Grandmother Fighting for Life After Victoria Crash Sparks Island-Wide Safety Outcry** A 78-year-old Gozitan grandmother remains in critical condition at Mater Dei Hospital after being struck by a delivery van on Victoria’s main thoroughfare Tuesday morning, reigniting fierce debate about pedestrian safety in Malta’s sleepy sister island where “everyone knows everyone” and such…

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Elderly Woman Injured in Traditional Żejtun Wall Crash: Community Rallies as Heritage Concerns Grow
ByHot Malta 24 September 2025

**Elderly Woman Injured as Car Crashes into Traditional Maltese Wall in Quiet Żejtun Street** A peaceful Tuesday morning in Żejtun was shattered when an 82-year-old woman suffered injuries after the car she was traveling in crashed into a traditional Maltese limestone wall, raising fresh concerns about road safety for elderly drivers and passengers across the…

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Papal Blessing or Cruel Con? How Malta’s Elderly Are Losing Life Savings to Faith-Flavoured Scams
ByHot Malta 23 September 2025

Watch: A pope, a dog, and a life’s savings – scam victims’ unbelievable tragedies ================================================================================= Floriana pensioner Maria* thought she was answering a call from the Archbishop’s Curia. Instead, she handed €42,000 – her deceased husband’s ġemma tal-pensjoni – to a man who promised a papal blessing and a 300 % “miracle” return. Three weeks…

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Malta’s Hospitals Swamped by Summer H1N1 Wave Targeting Grandparents
ByHot Malta 15 September 2025

Mater Dei’s corridors are filling with the sound of coughing again, but this time it isn’t tourists keeled over by July heat—it’s nanniet who danced at last month’s festa and now can’t catch their breath. Public-health officials confirmed this week that Malta is riding a sharp summer wave of H1N1 influenza, the same strain that…

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Malta’s Grandparents Under Siege: Summer Flu Strain H3N2 Sparks Festa Cancellations and Nursing-Home Lockdowns
ByHot Malta 15 September 2025

Ġuvni Nanna? Influenza A(H3N2) is sweeping through Malta’s over-65s at twice last summer’s pace, leaving families scrambling to reschedule festa fireworks, boat trips and long-awaited weddings that were meant to mark the island’s first restriction-free season since 2019. Public-health data released yesterday by the Superintendence of Public Health show that laboratory-confirmed H3N2 cases in people…

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Malta Pulls Plug on Gas Delivery Subsidy Early, Ending 70-Year Village Ritual
ByHot Malta 11 September 2025

Gas cylinders clanged one last time on Friday as Malta’s €2.3 million annual state subsidy for door-to-door LPG delivery was axed five years early, ending a 70-year ritual that turned kerbside “buttuna” drops into a national soundtrack. From today, households must fetch their own 12 kg cylinders from authorised points or pay the full €26.50…

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