Alex Borg says he plans small changes to the shadow cabinet Valletta – The Nationalist Party’s newly-appointed deputy leader for parliamentary affairs, Alex Borg, has told Hot Malta he is preparing “targeted, surgical tweaks rather than a grand reshuffle” to the opposition’s shadow cabinet, a move that could ripple across village band clubs, parish youth…
Mid-September in Malta has always felt like the hinge of the year: the sea is still warm enough for a sunset dip at Għajn Tuffieħa, the vineyards of Gozo are heavy with the season’s first Ġellewża grapes, and village band clubs are polishing their brass for the last festa of the summer. Between 8 and…
Rick Davies, the British keyboardist who co-founded the progressive-rock band Supertramp and co-wrote the global anthems “The Logical Song” and “Breakfast in America,” has died at 81. While the news broke on the band’s official website late Tuesday, it was felt keenly across the Mediterranean—especially in Malta, where Davies spent stretches of downtime and where…
**From Sliema to Għarb: How Malta’s villages are re-imagining tomorrow while honouring yesterday** The 5 a.m. ferry from Gozo to Malta is still dark this time of year, yet the deck is already alive with chatter. A nurse from Xagħra heading to Mater Dei, a game-developer from Victoria clutching a laptop, and a retired fisherman…
Gozo’s Ramla l-Ħamra, the island’s russet-gold beach that once inspired Homer’s nymph Calypso, found itself at the centre of a modern-day battle last Saturday morning. At 6:43 a.m., volunteers from the local NGO Moviment Graffitti spotted a lone contractor sandblasting the façade of a private villa perched on the terraced cliffs that form part of…
Adrian Delia congratulates Alex Borg on leadership win, thanks supporters: A new chapter for Malta’s Nationalist Party unfolds under Gozitan helm By a show-of-hands vote that felt more village festa than party convention, Alex Borg clinched the leadership of the Nationalist Party (PN) yesterday evening at the party’s Ħamrun headquarters, bringing to a close one…
Appreciation: Philip Bourne – The Quiet Englishman Who Put Malta on the Global Map By Luke Vella, Hot Malta It’s shortly after 7 a.m. on a honey-coloured morning in Birgu and the fishing boats are still rocking gently in the marina. Over at Café du Brazil, the first espressos are being pulled while two elderly…
Virtual Assets and Fintech: The Mediterranean Wave Malta Can Still Ride By Ariadne Micallef, Valletta On a sun-drenched Monday in May, the usual chatter at Nenu the Artisan Baker is no longer about ftira toppings but about Bitcoin. “My nephew just sold an NFT of a Maltese fishing boat for €4,000,” beams 68-year-old Ġanni from…
Religious quotes and news – September 7, 2025 Valletta wakes up on a Sunday that feels almost pre-ordained. The bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral ring at 6.05 a.m., echoing Archbishop Charles Scicluna’s midnight tweet: “Let the bells tell the world that mercy is still louder than thunder.” Within minutes the line is shared 1,700 times,…
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…
Gozo woke up on Friday to the kind of headline the sister island rarely sees: two local men, aged 28 and 34, marched into Victoria’s police headquarters to be formally charged over a brazen supermarket hold-up that unfolded on Wednesday evening at the Arkadia FoodExpress on Triq ir-Repubblika. According to the arraignment, the pair—both from…
Second Arrest in Gozo Hold-Up: How One Bungled Ferry Escape Brought Relief to an Island on Edge By Hot Malta Correspondent Xewkija, Gozo – Just after the 7 a.m. Mġarr ferry queue began snaking toward the ticket booths on Wednesday, police pounced on a 34-year-old Rabat man who allegedly tried to board the Gozo Channel…
