**Past Victoria school students get together** The narrow streets of Victoria, Gozo, echoed with laughter last Saturday as more than 200 former students of the town’s government primary school reunited for the first “Ħbieb tal-Iskola Beltin” picnic. Spread beneath the orange trees of Villa Rundle, the gathering turned the usually tranquil garden into a living…
**CrediaBank Probe: Maltese Shareholder Speaks Out, Island Waits for Fallout** A Maltese shareholder in the embattled CrediaBank has broken his silence, confirming he is part of an ongoing international probe but insisting he is “confident” he will not face trial. The statement, delivered in a carefully-worded video released to Hot Malta late Tuesday night, is…
Letters to the editor – September 15, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s 17th-century printing press at the National Library is humming again, but this time it’s not stamping out parish notices for knights. Every Monday morning volunteers feed a stack of A4 sheets into the antique machine and produce 2,000 copies of “Ittra Maltija”,…
Ġuvni Nanna? Influenza A(H3N2) is sweeping through Malta’s over-65s at twice last summer’s pace, leaving families scrambling to reschedule festa fireworks, boat trips and long-awaited weddings that were meant to mark the island’s first restriction-free season since 2019. Public-health data released yesterday by the Superintendence of Public Health show that laboratory-confirmed H3N2 cases in people…
Alexander Demarco, the softly-spoken lawyer who has spent the last seven years whispering monetary policy into the Prime Minister’s ear, is odds-on to become the next Governor of the Central Bank of Malta when Governor Edward Scicluna’s non-renewable term expires in June. The whispers started in Valletta’s coffee houses, migrated to the law courts of…
Two Greek-flagged vessels slipped out of Piraeus on Tuesday morning, their decks stacked high with medical crates and their manifests heavy with political symbolism. Destination: Gaza, via a Mediterranean sea-lane that Maltese fishermen know as “the back door to the Levant.” By nightfall the captains had already pinged Malta’s Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre requesting onward…
# Salt Lake Shooter’s “Leftist” Label Sparks Soul-Searching in Malta’s Political Cafés Valletta – When Utah Governor Spencer Cox told reporters that the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had “leftist political beliefs,” the sound-bite ricocheted across the Atlantic faster than a Ryanair flash-sale. By sunset, the remark was trending on Maltese…
# Motorbike Driver and Cyclist Suffer Grievous Injuries in Żabbar: A Stark Reminder of Road Safety Challenges A serious traffic incident in Żabbar on Monday evening has left a motorbike driver and a cyclist fighting for their lives, casting a shadow over the close-knit southeastern community and reigniting concerns about road safety across Malta’s historic…
**Malta Watches Warily as Ukraine Peace Talks Freeze and NATO Strengthens Eastern Flank** Sliema resident Maria Camilleri checks her phone every morning for updates from Kyiv, where her cousin’s family has been living in uncertainty since Russia’s invasion began. “We’re a small island, but we feel connected to everything happening,” she says, echoing a sentiment…
Valletta wakes up to news of war-on-rails: how a double train derailment in Russia is already rippling through Malta’s tight-knit streets. The first Telegram clips—filmed by shaken conductors—reached Maltese phones at 06:14 CET: two freight trains, 1,200 km apart, jumping their tracks in Bryansk and Ryazan, flames licking winter pine forests, one driver dead, grain…
Valletta-born 19-year-old Elisa Zammit always knew the polished floorboards of London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire were meant for her feet; she just never imagined the money would appear fast enough. Last week, the rising contemporary dancer became the first Maltese recipient of the €30,000 “Mediterranean Arts Bridge” scholarship, a new fund set up by the Malta…
# Big Tom finally finds his mojo: How Malta’s most stubborn donkey became the island’s unlikeliest celebrity **By [Hot Malta Staff] | Tuesday, 11 June 2025** Marsa’s Sunday market used to be famous for two things: knock-off Ray-Bans and the unmistakable sound of Big Tom’s theatrical braying. For seven years the oversized donkey—part tourist photo-prop,…
