PN to Elect New Leader Today: A Nation Watches as the Opposition Turns the Page Valletta’s morning cafés are buzzing louder than usual. By the time the church bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral strike ten, delegates of the Nationalist Party (PN) will be locked inside the old Phoenicia Hotel ballroom, deciding who gets to wake…
Letters to the editor – September 6, 2025 By Rebecca Zammit, Hot Malta The Saturday edition of Times of Malta lands on doorsteps a little later these days—post-coffee, post-kannoli, post-swim—but the letters page is still the first thing many Maltese turn to. By 09:30 the paper is spread across café tables from Valletta’s Strait Street…
Saturday, 6 September 2025 dawned with the first wisps of the Sirocco still clinging to the limestone walls, yet Valletta’s streets were already humming. Beneath fluttering bandiera Maltija hanging from wrought-iron balconies, Prime Minister Roberta Pace stepped onto the Palace balcony at 9.30 a.m. sharp—heralding a day of announcements that will ripple through every village…
In Pictures: Victory Day Celebrations Kick Off in Valletta The cannon boomed across Grand Harbour at sunrise, and Valletta’s honey-coloured bastions lit up in the warm glow of a thousand camera flashes. By 7 a.m., the Upper Barrakka Gardens were already humming with families waving Maltese flags, pensioners polishing miniature George Cross medals, and teenagers…
Affordable housing scheme ‘represents hope’ – YMCA ————————————————— By Luke Zahra | Hot Malta On the narrow, sun-baked streets of Marsa’s Dock One estate, where drying laundry flaps from every balcony and children chase footballs across cracked pavements, a modest block of flats is about to become the unlikely stage for Malta’s newest social experiment….
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…
MedservRegis rises to an eight-month high – and the whole island feels the lift By Hot Malta staff The bell that closes the Malta Stock Exchange on Castille Place had barely stopped ringing yesterday when word spread through Valletta’s cafés: MedservRegis, the Maltese oil-services group born from a 2020 merger, had closed at €0.89 –…
Food authority issues warning about sesame oil: What Valletta street vendors and Sliema home cooks need to know today By Luke Pace – Hot Malta The unmistakable aroma of sesame has long drifted from the doorways of Gozitan bakeries and the open kitchens of St Julian’s Asian fusion joints alike, but this week that scent…
Dog dies after owner calls 13 vets with no help, prompting ministry action By Hot Malta Newsroom | 08:30 • 12 June 2024 A Valletta family’s frantic 36-hour search for emergency veterinary care ended in heartbreak last Sunday when their beloved seven-year-old beagle, Luna, died on the kitchen floor after the owners say they were…
AFM drugs heist suspect back in court with his father, accused of extortion A courtroom drama that feels torn from a gritty Maltese telenovela returned to the Valletta Law Courts yesterday, as 28-year-old Luke* “Il-Bufflu”* Camilleri—already indicted over the daring 2021 AFM armoury cocaine heist—stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his 59-year-old father, Raymond “Ta’ Xmun” Camilleri, both…
Ministry to investigate vet clinics after dog dies without emergency care By Hot Malta Staff | 09:30, 12 June 2024 A single missed phone-call has snow-balled into a national reckoning over animal welfare in Malta, after a beloved family beagle died overnight because no 24-hour veterinary clinic could see him. The Parliamentary Secretariat for Agriculture,…
Father & Son in Dock: The AFM Drug Heist That Keeps Malta Talking ————————————————————— Valletta’s historic law courts were buzzing again this morning as Daniel “Danny” Micallef – the 29-year-old former Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) private accused of masterminding last year’s €750,000 cannabis heist – shuffled back into Hall 22. Only this time he…
