**Brothers Fined for Threatening Police and Magistrate in Courtroom Drama Over Sibling’s Death** In a courtroom scene that has sent ripples through Malta’s tight-knit communities, two brothers were fined €1,000 each after unleashing a torrent of threats against police officers and a magistrate during a hearing into their sibling’s untimely death. The incident, which unfolded…
**Public consultation launched on parental leave for parents of babies in intensive care** Malta has opened a public consultation on a proposed new measure that would grant additional paid leave to parents whose newborns require neonatal intensive care, marking a significant step towards recognising the emotional and financial toll faced by families during medical crises….
Valletta’s Republic Street will once again become a living laboratory on Friday 26 September 2025 when Science in the City returns under the banner “Past Forward”. The festival that began in 2012 as a modest EU Researchers’ Night spin-off has mushroomed into the islands’ largest outdoor classroom, drawing 30,000 revellers last year and pumping an…
Valletta’s streets will pulse with music, lasers and live experiments this Friday night, but the real innovation may be the 24 sleek buses that will ferry thousands of revellers to Science in the City – free of charge. For the first time in the festival’s 11-year history, Transport Malta and Malta Public Transport have laid…
**Exam Board Blunder Leaves Maltese Dyslexic Student Without Crucial Help – Ombudsman Steps In** A Maltese student with dyslexia was unfairly denied extra time during critical exams after the local examination board failed to recognise their learning difficulty, the Ombudsman has found. The ruling, released this week, has sparked fresh debate about how Malta’s education…
**Seabank Saga Turns Sour: Dead Man’s Brothers Fined After Courtroom Outburst Shocks Mellieħa** MELLIEĦA – What began as a family’s quest for answers after a tragic death at the Seabank Hotel ended in a courtroom drama that has left the tight-knit Mellieħa community reeling. Two brothers, grieving the loss of their sibling who died at…
Neurodivergent youth lead conservation efforts at Dwejra Lines ================================================————- ĦAĠAR QIM – While most teenagers were still asleep on Saturday morning, a small army of neurodivergent volunteers was already scrambling over the limestone bastions of Dwejra Lines, clutching trowels, seed trays and an encyclopaedic knowledge of Malta’s endemic flora. By the time the first tour…
Nico Conti’s Debut Solo Show Opens at Malta Society of Arts: A Homecoming 30 Years in the Making By Hot Malta Staff | April 26, 2025 | 3 min read Valletta – On a breezy Thursday evening, the 19th-century halls of the Malta Society of Arts (MSA) echoed with clinking glasses, animated Maltese, and the…
**From Valletta to Via Montenapoleone: How Milan’s Armani-Renaissance Fusion Sparks a Maltese Rethink of Fashion and Heritage** Milan’s latest cultural cocktail—Giorgio Armani’s haute couture threaded through the rooms of the newly restored Palazzo Reale—has set Italian social media alight, but the ripples are being felt far beyond the Po Valley. In Malta, where baroque balconies…
Valletta’s law courts buzzed like a summer festa on Tuesday morning as word spread that 29-year-old Żabbar IT whizz Daniel Meli will not be shipped across the Atlantic to face American justice. Magistrate Gabriella Vella ruled that extraditing Meli—wanted by the FBI for allegedly hawking the “Warzone” remote-access trojan that infected thousands of U.S. computers—would…
Will your name be among MedTech’s top innovators in 2025? From a limestone-walled lab in Msida to a start-up garage in Gżira, Malta is quietly incubating the next wave of medical-technology pioneers—and the global clock is ticking. The question is no longer whether the islands can play in the big leagues, but whose signature will…
**Watch: Flooding in several localities as heavy rain hits Gozo amid thunderstorm** Gozo’s streets turned into rivers on Tuesday afternoon as a violent thunderstorm dumped torrential rain across the sister island, flooding homes, paralysing traffic and turning the usually serene villages into scenes of chaos. Videos circulating on social media show water gushing down the…
