Motorcyclist Fighting for Life After Żebbuġ Crash Re-ignites Island-Wide Safety Debate A 27-year-old rider from Siġġiewi is in critical condition at Mater Dei Hospital after losing control of his Honda CBR on the winding stretch of Triq il-Kbira, Żebbuġ, just after 6 a.m. yesterday. The impact, which scattered debris across the 17th-century village core, has…
**Justice Delayed: Maltese Man Cleared After 14 Months Behind Bars for Crime He Didn’t Commit** A Maltese father’s 14-month nightmare has ended after Malta’s Court of Criminal Appeal overturned his conviction for stealing, exposing critical flaws in the island’s justice system and sparking urgent calls for reform. Joseph* (name changed to protect identity), a 42-year-old…
Adrian Delia deletes ‘racist’ post, claiming he was misinterpreted: how a midnight meme lit Malta’s internet on fire By 2 a.m. on Tuesday, the WhatsApp forwards had already reached Gozo. A grainy screen-grab—Nationalist MP Adrian Delia sharing a Facebook meme that juxtaposed a photo of a crowded Ħamrun street with the caption “Is this Malta…
Peter Mandelson Sacked as UK Ambassador to US Over Epstein Links: Why Malta Should Care Valletta woke up to diplomatic tremors this morning as news broke that Lord Peter Mandelson has been abruptly recalled from Washington, the first time a British ambassador has been dismissed mid-post since the Suez Crisis. The official line from Whitehall…
**Gay Rights Activists Interrupt Rebecca Buttigieg After Member Detained: A Defining Moment for Malta’s Pride Movement** Valletta’s Republic Street fell silent for a split-second on Saturday evening when Equality Minister Rebecca Buttigieg took the mic at the Labour Party’s Festa Labrittanija. Within moments, chants of “Shame! Shame!” erupted from a cluster of rainbow-flagged protestors who…
**Malta’s Animal Lovers Rally as Japanese Donors Distance Themselves from ‘Cat Killer’** Valletta – When news broke last week that a 30-year-old Japanese tourist had been caught on CCTV drowning a stray cat inside a plastic bag at St Julian’s Spinola Bay, the clip went viral across both islands within hours. But while Magistrate Monica…
**Gozo’s Azure Window may be gone, but Malta is about to flex its own global muscle.** Former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall— the 2017 champion who once dead-lifted 500 kg and can flip a Mini Cooper like a pancake— has chosen the Maltese Islands as the backdrop for his newest sports-entertainment series, tentatively titled *Hall…
Valletta’s courtroom number four was packed tighter than a festa pyrotechnics van yesterday when magistrate Rachel Montebello threw out freshly-arrived evidence from the FBI, ruling that the 2 000-page digital dossier landed too late to be fairly examined by 24-year-old Daniel Meli and his three co-accused. The decision is the latest twist in Malta’s first-ever…
**Strongman Eddie Hall Brings Blockbuster Sports Entertainment Series to Malta, Putting Maltese Islands on Global Fitness Map** The Maltese islands are about to flex their muscles on the international stage as former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall announces his latest sports entertainment series will be filmed entirely in Malta. The blockbuster production, featuring the charismatic…
Financial analysis: Does Prospects have a future? By 8 a.m. on a humid July morning, the queue outside Prospects charity shop in Ħamrun already snakes past the old kiosks selling pastizzi and cheap phone cards. Retired seamstresses, Syrian families and Maltese pensioners clutching plastic bags of last season’s clothes, waiting for the roller shutter to…
**Tragedy Across the Waves: Malta Reacts to the Killing of Charlie Kirk** Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso steam when push-notifications lit up phones across the archipelago: Charlie Kirk, the 25-year-old British-Maltese influencer and part-time Sliema resident, had been found shot dead outside a Manchester recording studio shortly after midnight. Within minutes #CharlieKirk…
A conversation about ‘Fallen Angels’ – and why Valletta is talking about it over pastizzi By Sarah Galea, Hot Malta contributor “Mela, have you seen the angels?” The question ricochets across Republic Street every morning this week, whispered between kiosk owners, debated by pensioners on the City Gate benches, and posted on TikTok by teens…
