‘Homes Not Holding Companies’: Valletta Protest Slams MDA ‘Monopoly’ as Prices Soar
Valletta’s Republic Street was briefly louder than the usual midday café chatter on Thursday, as a dozen young architects and activists unfurled a…
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Borg & Delia’s Café Cordina Truce: Can This Handshake Heal the PN?
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…
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Dan Brown’s New Thriller Puts Malta in the Global Spotlight—And the Island Is Loving Every Page
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…
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Smokestacks to Storytelling: Valletta Unveils Malta’s First Industrial Heritage Museum
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…
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How Malta levelled up with Mario: 40 years of plumber-powered nostalgia
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…
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Malta Speaks: September 9 Letters to the Editor Reveal a Nation at a Crossroads
Letters to the editor – September 9, 2025: Valletta post-box overflows with summer’s hopes and island frustrations By Sarah Micallef | Hot Malta The…
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Flowers at the Great Siege: How Valletta’s Quietest Victory Day Ritual Unites Malta
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…
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Pope Pius V’s Secret Malta Legacy Revealed: New Book Traces How a 16th-Century Pontiff Shaped Our Festas, Fortresses and Faith
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…
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Malta’s Letters to the Editor Ignite Island-Wide Debate Over Rabbit Prices, Water Parks and Lost Ironmongers
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…
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Malta at Crossroads: How Israel’s Warning on Palestinian Statehood Hits Home
Valletta’s balmy spring evenings usually echo with chatter about Eurovision odds or the price of pastizzi, but this week the courtyard talk at Café…
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Moonlit Miracle: Long-Lost Querio Masterpiece Unearthed in Valletta Archbishop’s Palace
Hidden behind a stack of dusty ledgers in the sacristy of the Archbishop’s Palace in Valletta, a rolled canvas no wider than a church candle has sent…
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Malta Cheers Jarmusch’s Venice Win While Gaza Doc Loss Sparks Local Soul-Searching
Jarmusch’s Indie Triumph Resonates in Malta’s Creative Circles as Gaza War Film Misses Out Valletta – While the lagoon city of Venice basked in…
