“Pastizzi may be the death of us” By Luke Calleja, Hot Malta Valletta – The warning came from a cardiologist in Gżira, not a lifestyle blogger in Berlin, and that’s why everyone listened. “Pastizzi may be the death of us,” Dr. Miriam Azzopardi told listeners of Radju Malta’s morning phone-in last week, after new Health…
Letters to the editor – September 9, 2025: Valletta post-box overflows with summer’s hopes and island frustrations By Sarah Micallef | Hot Malta The wrought-iron post-box outside the Times of Malta building in Valletta was so stuffed this morning that a postal worker had to prop the lid open with a half-eaten pastizz. Inside, 187…
Letters to the Editor – September 8, 2025: Valletta’s Living Room Debates Spill Onto the Page By 7 a.m. on Monday, the first bundle of Monday Times of Malta had barely landed on the doorstep of Café Cordina when the letters page was already being dissected over frothy cappuccinos. Between the clink of teaspoons and…
Letters to the Editor: Malta’s Sunday-Morning Pulse 7 September 2025, Valletta – While the rest of Europe is still rubbing sleep from its eyes, Malta is already arguing over coffee. The Times of Malta’s letters page today is thicker than a ftira at a village festa, and the ink is barely dry before copies are…
# From Bondi to Balluta: How a Sydney Shark Attack is Sending Ripples Through Malta’s Summer Plans MALTA — When the Maltese sun is scorching and the sea beckons like a sapphire promise, nothing feels safer than a plunge off Sliema’s rocky shelves or a sunset snorkel at St. Peter’s Pool. Yet, 16,000 kilometres away,…
Pensioners awarded compensation over savings plan promises ———————————————————- Floriana’s law courts echoed with quiet cheers yesterday as 127 Maltese pensioners – many clutching rosaries and grandchildren’s hands – finally heard the words they had waited eight years for: “You are entitled to full restitution, plus moral damages.” The landmark judgment closes a painful chapter that…
Why I stand with Alex Borg By A Malta-based correspondent for Hot Malta The first time I met Alex Borg was not in the glossy lobby of some Valletta co-working hub, but under the flickering yellow bulb of a traditional Maltese kiosk in Birkirkara, where the smell of ftira and kinnie mingled with the late-summer…
A rare moment of cross-party harmony echoed through Parliament this week when Health Minister Chris Fearne and two contenders for the Nationalist Party leadership, Adrian Delia and Bernard Grech, united behind a Maltese proposal for a sweeping “right to be forgotten”. The initiative, tabled by Labour back-bencher Alex Muscat, would allow citizens to request the…
Floriana’s regeneration begins with its people By Hot Malta Correspondent If you walk through Floriana at 7 a.m. on any weekday you will find the same ritual: elderly men at the Granaries rolling cigarettes and arguing about football, schoolchildren chasing pigeons across Piazza San Publiju, and the scent of ftira biż-żejt drifting from the hole-in-the-wall…
Trump Waves Off Health Rumours as “Fake News” – How a Maltese Twitter Storm Turned into Café Chatter Overnight By Luke Briffa | Hot Malta VALLETTA – “President Trump is 78, eats like a pastizz addict and still insists he’s ‘healthier than ever’,” joked Carmel Zahra over a mid-morning espresso at Caffé Cordina. The 67-year-old…
