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…
“More than just striptease”: how Undine LaVerve brought Burlesque to Malta by Hot Malta On a balmy Friday in Valletta, the baroque arches of Splendid Theatre glow a soft crimson. Feather boas brush against the ancient limestone, sequins glitter under the chandeliers, and a ripple of anticipation moves through the crowd as the band strikes…
Zone Zero: The Rise of Effortless Exercise How Malta’s Balcony Joggers, Seafront Strollers and Sunday Ġbejna Hunters are Rewriting the Fitness Rulebook by Luke Vella | Hot Malta On a breezy Tuesday evening in Sliema, 72-year-old Ġemma Pace is doing what she calls “exercise without the exercise.” Perched on a wooden bench facing Manoel Island,…
Majority of Maltese Feel Country on Right Track for First Time Since 2022 By a Hot Malta Correspondent | 09 June 2024 For the first time in 24 months, more Maltese than not believe Malta is “heading in the right direction,” according to the latest MaltaToday survey released this morning. The turnaround—51 % positive versus…
Fort Binġemma – what next? Locals demand a future worthy of Mellieħa’s silent sentinel From the ridge above Għajn Tuffieħa, the honey-coloured limestone of Fort Binġemma glows every sunset like a half-remembered promise. Built by the British in the 1870s to deter an Italian invasion that never came, the fort has spent most of its…
Watch: People with disabilities ‘imprisoned’ in their flats for over a month By Hot Malta Correspondent A grainy video circulating on Maltese social media this week shows a wheelchair user banging on a locked lift door in a Buġibba block while his neighbour, a blind woman, tries to calm him from the stairwell above. For…
Over 1,200 Maltese residents have already signed up for free consultations with the newly launched BCA Lawyers & Architects clinic, turning what began as a modest community initiative into a nationwide conversation about access to justice and good design. The figures, released this morning by the Building & Construction Alliance (BCA), have taken even the…
Valletta – A well-known chef who once championed farm-to-table menus and championed Maltese produce on prime-time TV cooking shows appeared behind the reinforced glass of the Criminal Court on Thursday, charged with raping and stalking his wife after allegedly subjecting her to years of systematic physical and psychological abuse. The 41-year-old restaurateur, whose downtown Valletta…
Man Denies Sharing Indecent Photo of Ex and Holding Her Against Her Will: A Case That Cuts to Malta’s Core Valletta’s ancient stone corridors echoed with more than footsteps this week as a 29-year-old Marsascala man stood in the dock, pleading not guilty to charges that read like a cautionary tale for the digital age:…
Paschalino Cefai and Mario Mifsud, two names that have dominated Maltese headlines for weeks, stepped out of the shadows of Valletta’s law courts yesterday and into an unexpected embrace that left onlookers whispering like extras on a film set. Moments earlier, both men had formally withdrawn their respective charges—Cefai’s accusation of assault and Mifsud’s counter-claim…
“Il-Quws” Walks Free After Victim’s Silence in Paola Courtroom Hot Malta Exclusive | By Maria Pace PAOLA – The small courtroom on Triq il-Bahar felt more like a parish hall than a place of justice on Tuesday morning. Elderly women in black clutched rosaries, teenagers live-streamed on TikTok, and the smell of ftira from the…
Science by sea: new luzzu route connects Sliema and Valletta to Esplora By Hot Malta Correspondent At 8:30 on a brisk April morning, the first passengers clambered onto a freshly painted luzzu moored below the Sliema Ferries kiosk. Instead of the usual jaunt to Comino, the boat’s bright red, blue and yellow bow pointed south-east,…
