Letters to the editor – September 10, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s morning light had barely dried the overnight drizzle when the Times of Malta’s letters page began lighting up phones across the archipelago. By 08:00, “#Letters10Sept” was trending locally on TikTok—yes, even grandmothers in Għarb are on TikTok now—because today’s crop of reader…
Over 1,500 Voices Shape Malta’s Planning Future in Record-Breaking Consultation By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – When the Environment and Planning Reform public consultation closed at midnight on Friday, the tally on the e-platform read 1,532 submissions—more than double the number received during the 2015 Strategic Plan for Environment and Development (SPED) review and the…
German Maestro Christoph von Dohnányi Dies at 95: The Conductor Who Once Whispered to Malta’s Waves By [Author Name], Hot Malta Culture Desk Valletta’s limestone balconies stood a shade quieter on Wednesday as news reached the island that Christoph von Dohnányi—the German conductor whose baton once teased a Mediterranean breeze during Malta’s 2005 Valletta International…
Valletta’s Republic Street was briefly louder than the usual midday café chatter on Thursday, as a dozen young architects and activists unfurled a hand-painted banner that read “Homes Not Holding Companies” and chanted “MDA, let us build!” Passers-by stopped sipping their kinnie, tourists lowered their cameras, and pensioners on the City Gate benches leaned forward…
Borg, Delia hold first meeting after PN election: a coffee, a handshake, and the ghost of 2017 Valletta’s Café Cordina was still perfumed with pastizzi steam yesterday morning when Bernard Grech’s two erstwhile rivals met for the first time since Saturday’s bruising Nationalist Party leadership contest. Adrian Delia, the ousted leader who refuses to leave…
Midnight at Merkanti, and the queue outside Agenda bookshop snakes past the gelato stand and down the cobbled lane. It’s not a new iPhone dropping—it’s Dan Brown’s *Wild Symphony*, the thriller maestro’s first adult novel since 2017, and Valletta is treating it like a festa firework. By 00:01 the first 200 copies are gone, snapped…
Valletta’s newest cultural gem isn’t another baroque palace or a Knights-period armoury. It’s a 19th-century coal-fired power station reborn as MUŻA Industrija, the first national museum dedicated solely to Malta’s industrial heritage. When the doors swung open last Friday, former dockworkers arrived in Sunday-best jackets, teenagers posed against 10-ton cranes for TikTok clips, and tourists…
It’s-a-him, Malta: 40 years of Mario and the island that never stopped jumping Valletta’s evening air was thick with nostalgia last Friday as the capital’s biggest gaming café, Glitch, projected a pixel-perfect speed-run of Super Mario Bros. on the façade of the old Embassy Theatre. Passers-by—grandparents clutching pastizzi, teenagers in Fortnite hoodies, tourists fresh off…
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…
Valletta’s morning sun had barely cleared the bastions when the first carnations appeared at the foot of the Great Siege Monument. By 9 a.m. the bronze figures of Faith, Fortitude and Civilisation were swimming in a tide of red and white—some blooms still dewy from florists in Hamrun, others wrapped in the plastic sleeves that…
New Book Unveils the Hidden Malta Chapter of Pope Pius V’s Legacy Valletta’s narrow cobblestones once echoed with the footsteps of a pope who never set foot on the island, yet whose shadow still drapes across our skyline, our feasts, and even the honey-coloured limestone of the Grand Harbour bastions. Historian Dr. Maria Micallef’s freshly…
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…
