Why Mirabelle Died: A Maltese Tale of Loss, Nostalgia and the Price of Progress By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s harbour cranes still hum at dawn, but in the back streets of Gżira the silence feels louder than ever. Mirabelle is gone. The tabby cat that spent sixteen years sun-bathing on the doorstep of the former…
Lorenzo Agius brings Hollywood celebs and global icons to Valletta ————————————————————- Valletta’s limestone bastions have seen everything from Ottoman cannon-fire to NATO warships, but last week they bore witness to an invasion of a gentler kind: a flash-mob of A-listers, supermodels and music legends summoned by British-Maltese photographer Lorenzo Agius. In less than 48 hours,…
Żepp’s Last Stand – How One Man’s 7 September 2025 Send-Off Became a National Love-Letter to Malta By 09:00 on Sunday 7 September 2025, the narrow lanes of Siġġiewi were already humming like a festa loud-speaker. Elderly men in flat caps polished brass bands’ instruments outside the parish church; children in hand-me-down Ġorġ tal-Fjur costumes…
Gilded Devotion: How a Pair of Silver Missal Covers Put Senglea Basilica Back on the World’s Cultural Map By Hot Malta Correspondent When the heavy brass doors of Senglea’s Basilica of the Nativity of Our Lady swung open at dawn last Saturday, the narrow streets of L-Isla smelled less of sea salt and more of…
Il-Beżżul Bieżel – September 7, 2025: The Day Valletta’s Streets Became a Living Carnival At 6:47 a.m. on Sunday, 7 September 2025, the bronze tongue of St John’s Co-Cathedral bell began its slow swing and, before the echo reached Republic Street, the first “beżżul” was already airborne. A blood-orange ħobża, crust still warm from the…
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…
Maltese Skies Remain Untouched, Confirms MATS Amid Regional Tensions By Hot Malta Newsroom Malta’s famously azure skies are still ours—and only ours. The Malta Air Traffic Services (MATS) issued a concise but reassuring statement late yesterday evening, confirming that no unauthorised foreign aircraft have entered Maltese sovereign airspace in recent days. The announcement lands just…
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…
**Armani’s Enduring Thread: How a Milan Legend Wove Himself into Malta’s Style Story** Valletta’s Republic Street was unusually hushed last Saturday morning, the only sound the metallic rustle of shop shutters rising. Then, as if on cue, a woman stepped out of Caffe Cordina in a biscuit-coloured linen blazer that every passer-by recognised: relaxed shoulders,…
Ġustizzja għal Artna: NGOs unite to block ‘fast-track’ planning reform that could redraw Malta’s skyline By Luke Vella – Hot Malta Valletta’s sun-baked streets echoed with chants of “Ġustizzja għal Artna – Justice for Our Land!” on Tuesday evening as a coalition of 23 NGOs launched an island-wide campaign against the government’s latest planning reform….
**”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…
