A Positive Signal with Emissions Reduction: Malta’s Quiet Revolution from Below Valletta’s skyline at dusk is no longer smudged by the familiar brown haze that used to hang over the Grand Harbour. On the first wind-still evening of June, the air above Fort St Elmo was clear enough to pick out the twinkling lights of…
Watch: Neil Agius completes his Gozo 7 challenge – a Maltese odyssey that united two islands in awe By 04:30 yesterday, the usually quiet slipway at Mġarr ix-Xini was humming. Fishermen paused mending their nets, pastizzi were passed round in foil packets, and a small flotilla of traditional dgħajjes bobbed expectantly beside sleek RIBs. Everyone…
ADPD turns up heat on Project Green in Mosta valley: “Who really benefits from this €50 million facelift?” The green benches of Parliament were barely warm on Monday afternoon when ADPD Chairperson Sandra Gauci strode out and handed the Office of the Ombudsman a thick dossier bound in recycled cardboard. Inside: photographs of uprooted carob…
Pay People €2.50 Every Time They Use the Bus? A Bold Plan to Get Malta Moving Again By Hot Malta | Published 09:45 CEST, 23 May 2024 Strolling past the crumbling limestone facades of Strait Street on a May morning, you can almost taste the diesel in the air: delivery vans double-parked outside cafés, ride-shares…
Ta’ Qali’s picnic lawns have always been more than grass; they’re the Saturday backdrop for nanna’s timpana, the Sunday stage for teen football tournaments, and the first patch of earth many Maltese kids learn to ride a bike on. So when photos started circulating last week showing the once-verdant stretch behind the aviation museum reduced…
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…
**”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)…
Dingli cliffs shimmered gold in the late-afternoon light yesterday, but the mood under the ancient garigue was far from serene. Beneath a fluttering banner reading “Ġustizzja għal Artna – Justice for Our Land”, a coalition of 14 Maltese NGOs launched a campaign that could become the loudest grassroots pushback against government planning reform since the…
Ta’ Qali gravel will enable grass to grow ‘more quickly’ – junior minister By Hot Malta Newsroom The dusty, sun-baked expanse of Ta’ Qali National Park is poised for a green revolution. Junior Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights Alicia Bugeja Said told Hot Malta yesterday that a newly-approved layer of graded limestone gravel—sourced…
PG plc’s latest set of accounts, filed quietly at the end of May, reads less like a dry spreadsheet and more like a Maltese summer blockbuster. Revenue up 12 %, net debt sliced by a quarter, and—most eye-catching of all—a €110 million war-chest earmarked for “strategic expansion” over the next three years. In a country…
Who Really Runs Malta: Developers, Politicians or the PA? It’s a question that bubbles up every time a new tower cranes its neck above Valletta’s skyline or when a pristine valley in Rabat suddenly sprouts a concrete scar: who actually calls the shots on this rock we call home—developers, politicians, or the Planning Authority (PA)?…
Sant’Antnin car park, park-and-ride set to be completed by mid-2026 By Hot Malta • 14 May 2024 The dusty expanse behind the old Sant’Antnin waste-to-energy plant in Marsascala is about to swap the clang of bulldozers for the soft thud of car doors. Transport Malta has confirmed that the long-heralded park-and-ride facility will open its…
