**HSBC Strike Enters Day 3 Amid Payout Dispute: Maltese Workers Stand Firm** The marble floors of HSBC’s flagship Valletta branch remain eerily quiet as Malta’s largest bank faces its third consecutive day of industrial action, with hundreds of employees forming picket lines that snake past the historic limestone buildings lining Republic Street. The dispute centers…
Lands chief received payments from Fortina CEO in year of ‘undervalued’ deal ———————————————— By [Hot Malta Staff] | 06 June 2025 | 09:00 CEST Sliema’s seafront has always been a stage where money, sun and history collide. Joggers pant past 19th-century townhouses, pensioners feed pigeons under tamarisk trees, and developers circle like gulls above a…
**Trump’s NATO Bombast Echoes Across the Grand Harbour: Could Malta Be Caught in the Crossfire?** Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso steam when Donald Trump’s latest foreign-policy grenade landed on Maltese phones: the former U.S. president wants NATO states to shoot down Russian jets that breach their airspace. In a country where every…
Valletta’s 17th-century Parliament was buzzing louder than a summer festa on Tuesday evening as MPs kicked off the first reading of a bill to resurrect Malta’s dedicated Commercial Court – a tribunal that traders, start-ups and even band-club treasurers have been clamouring for since it was quietly mothballed back in 2005. For anyone who has…
**University of Malta Launches Ground-Breaking Academic Journal on Gender and Sexuality** The University of Malta has announced the launch of a pioneering academic journal dedicated to gender and sexuality studies, marking a significant milestone for the island nation’s academic and LGBTQ+ communities. The publication, titled “Journal of Mediterranean Gender and Sexuality Studies,” will serve as…
**Malta’s Sunny Economy Faces Storm Warning: EU Report Flags Islands Among Most Weather-Exposed** Valletta – For generations, Maltese children have been warned that “ix-xemx mhux dejjem tidħol bieb it-tieqa” – the sun doesn’t always shine through the same window. Now Brussels has turned the proverb into hard numbers: Malta ranks third among all EU economies…
Valletta – A 38-year-old mother of two from Żejtun walked out of Malta’s Courts of Justice on Tuesday afternoon with tears in her eyes and a small Maltese flag pressed to her chest after magistrate Gabriella Vella cleared her of charges that she had fabricated domestic-violence complaints against her former husband. The verdict, delivered after…
**PN MP Demands Dedicated Shelters for Homeless Drug Addicts: “We Can’t Keep Pretending the Problem Doesn’t Exist”** A Nationalist MP has shattered Parliament’s usual decorum with a blunt wake-up call: Malta’s growing army of homeless drug users is sleeping in doorways, overdosing in public toilets and being “treated like stray cats” because the island offers…
**Autumn’s First Drops: Malta Braces for Isolated Showers as Island Culture Shifts Gear** Valletta’s limestone balconies, bleached honey-gold after a long, rainless summer, may finally get their first rinse of the season. The Malta Meteorological Office has issued a low-key but culturally seismic forecast: isolated showers could drift across the archipelago from Wednesday, signalling the…
**Five-Year Sentence for Pipe-Wielding Cab Robber Sparks Debate on Valletta Night Safety** A 34-year-old man has been jailed for five years after holding up a taxi driver with nothing more than a crack pipe, in a case that has reignited worries over late-night security in Malta’s capital and the vulnerability of the island’s 24-hour cab…
Trump’s UN Tirade Resonates in Valletta: “Your Countries Are Going to Hell” Sparks Debate in Malta’s Migration Hot-Spot By Hot Malta Staff VALLETTA – When Donald Trump strode to the UN podium this week and sneered that “your countries are going to hell” on peace and migration, the clip went viral in Malta before the…
**Isolated Showers Expected to Begin on Wednesday: A Maltese Spring Awakening** As the Maltese archipelago prepares to welcome its first spring showers this Wednesday, locals are experiencing that familiar mix of relief and resignation that comes with the island’s transitional weather. After weeks of unseasonably dry conditions that have left farmers anxiously scanning cloudless skies,…
