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MaltaHip Revolution: How Malta’s Groundbreaking Hip Replacement Surgery is Transforming Lives and Boosting Medical Tourism
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

**MaltaHip: elevating hip replacement innovation in Malta** On a sun-drenched morning at Mater Dei Hospital, 72-year-old Carmenu Pace from Żejtun takes his first pain-free steps in years. Just three weeks earlier, he received a cutting-edge hip replacement through MaltaHip – a revolutionary procedure that’s transforming lives across the Maltese Islands and positioning Malta as an…

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Community | Culture

Malta’s cosmic boom: why astrology is the island’s newest coping mechanism
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

Astrology’s appeal in uncertain times – why Malta is looking to the stars again By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s Republic Street after 9 p.m. feels like a village that forgot to sleep. Past the closed pharmacies and neon pastizzerias, a narrow staircase between two souvenir shops leads to a softly lit studio smelling of frankincense…

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MCAST’s New ‘Positivity Toolkit’ Is the Maltese Answer to Student Stress—And It Starts with Pastizzi
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

**MCAST Unveils First-Ever ‘Positivity Toolkit’ to Help Maltese Students Beat Exam Stress and Winter Blues** Paola – While most students were still shaking sand out of their backpacks after the long Easter weekend, lecturers at Malta’s largest further-education college were quietly rolling out a home-grown weapon against anxiety. On Tuesday morning, inside a sun-lit atrium…

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Community | Local News

Fortina’s €10 million bill: How Sliema’s floating pools sank Malta’s public purse
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

Fortina and the real cost to the State By Hot Malta Staff The first time most Maltese children see Fortina, it is from the upper deck of a yellow school bus crawling along the Tigné seafront: a jagged white wall that looks as if someone has glued a slice of Miami to the edge of…

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Culture | Local News

Malta’s Independence Day 2025: Shorter School Weeks, Green Fireworks & Free Museums in 12-Point ‘Forward Day’ Blitz
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

Floriana’s Independence Arena was already humming at 07:30 this morning when Education Minister Dr. Justyne Caruana stepped up to the dais and declared 21 September 2025 “a textbook example of how Malta does more than mark history—we make it.” Against a backdrop of vintage luzzu sails dyed in the new national palette of white, red…

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Malta’s Sunday Pharmacy Rota: Your Essential Lifeline for September 21, 2025
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

**Pharmacies open today – September 21, 2025: your Sunday lifeline across Malta and Gozo** It’s just past 09:00 on the third Sunday of September and the narrow streets of Valletta are already humming with cruise-ship day-trippers clutching gelato. Yet tucked behind the Baroque façade of Republic Street, one green-cross sign is flashing brighter than the…

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Business | Community

Malta’s merger watchdog: how blocking big deals protects village life and fuels growth
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

# Controlling mergers and acquisitions to foster growth, protect competition **Valletta** – When a family-run Sliema bakery that has supplied ftira to the same street since 1957 is suddenly swallowed by a pan-European frozen-food giant, the ripples are felt far beyond the shop-front. Grandmothers whisper about the change in texture of their morning bread; teenagers…

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Community | Culture

Malta Stops to Say Grazzi: The Night Valletta Honoured Unsung Festa Legend Carmel Micallef
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

Carmel Micallef’s name does not ring out from billboards or political podiums, yet walk into any village fête from Żejtun to Żurrieq this summer and you will feel his quiet choreography at work: the brass band hitting a crescendo exactly as the statue of the patron saint emerges from the church door, the boy with…

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Community | Local News

Taxes for the Common Good: How Your PAYE Builds Malta’s Future
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

**Taxes for the Common Good: How Malta’s Collective Contribution Shapes the Island We Call Home** It’s easy to grumble when the PAYE slip arrives or when VAT pushes that pastizz past the €1 mark. Yet behind every grudge lies a quieter truth: the Malta we Instagram, argue over, and proudly call home is stitched together…

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Community | Politics

Malta’s Political Disillusionment: How Empty Promises Are Reshaping the Nation’s Democratic Future
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

**Changing faces, empty promises: a story of disillusionment** The sun sets over Valletta’s majestic skyline, painting golden hues across the Grand Harbour as another political season unfolds in Malta. Yet beneath the postcard-perfect veneer, a familiar narrative repeats itself—one that has left many Maltese citizens increasingly cynical about the democratic process they’ve inherited from generations…

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Living but at what cost? How Malta’s rental crisis is eroding the island’s soul
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

**Living but at what cost?** *From €900-a-month rabbit-warren bedsits to €1,200 “luxury” car-ports with a fold-out sofa, Malta’s rental market has become a national blood-pressure spike. We talk to the families, students and pensioners who are “making it work” – and the economists who warn the island is pricing its own soul out of existence.*…

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Malta’s Letters to the Editor Ignite Change: From Fireworks Safety to Anti-Racism Vigils
ByHot Malta 21 September 2025

Letters to the editor – September 21, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s dawn cafés were already humming when the Times of Malta’s weekend edition hit the doorsteps. By 7 a.m., the paper’s letters page—three crisp columns under the fold—had become the islands’ most democratic parliament. Between sips of ħobż-biż-żejt and iced coffee, Maltese from…

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