Valletta quietens at dusk, the honey-coloured bastions glowing above Grand Harbour while pushchairs and prayer-beads swing side-by-side on the Barakka lift. Yet even here, 1,800 kilometres from Gaza City, Israel’s military build-up feels close enough to touch. Over the past week, the Maltese have followed each new brigade, each tank column, with a particular intimacy…
Għajn Dwieli tunnel closed for four days next week – here’s how Paola and the Three Cities will cope The rhythmic honk that once echoed through the Għajn Dwieli tunnel will fall silent next Monday to Thursday as Infrastructure Malta shuts both bores for urgent waterproofing works. For drivers who use the 400-metre underpass to…
Over 1,200 Maltese residents have already signed up for free consultations with the newly launched BCA Lawyers & Architects clinic, turning what began as a modest community initiative into a nationwide conversation about access to justice and good design. The figures, released this morning by the Building & Construction Alliance (BCA), have taken even the…
The hearts and minds behind the platform that redefined local commerce in Malta By Luke Vella, Hot Malta On a slow Tuesday afternoon in 2018, while most of Sliema was sipping espresso on the front, three friends huddled around a wobbly table in a back-street café and sketched something on a napkin that would later…
Kathryn Bigelow Returns to Venice with Political Thriller – Why Malta Should Watch Closely By Hot Malta Staff Writer VENICE – As the 81st Venice Film Festival unfurls its red carpet this week, American director Kathryn Bigelow storms back into the Lido with “Requiem for the Fallen,” a pulse-quickening political thriller set against a fictional…
Valletta – A well-known chef who once championed farm-to-table menus and championed Maltese produce on prime-time TV cooking shows appeared behind the reinforced glass of the Criminal Court on Thursday, charged with raping and stalking his wife after allegedly subjecting her to years of systematic physical and psychological abuse. The 41-year-old restaurateur, whose downtown Valletta…
Trump’s “Exciting” Defense News: Why Malta is Watching Across the Med By Hot Malta Correspondent | 14 June 2025 Valletta’s early-morning café chatter turned from yesterday’s festa fireworks to a very different kind of blast radius when the White House announced that President Donald Trump will unveil an “exciting” defense initiative next week. In a…
Man Denies Sharing Indecent Photo of Ex and Holding Her Against Her Will: A Case That Cuts to Malta’s Core Valletta’s ancient stone corridors echoed with more than footsteps this week as a 29-year-old Marsascala man stood in the dock, pleading not guilty to charges that read like a cautionary tale for the digital age:…
No Hammering While We’re Having Ħobż: Momentum Wants Lunchtime & Weekend Peace Malta’s love affair with construction is almost as old as the honey-ring. Cranes slice the skyline like modern luzzus, and jackhammers provide the daily soundtrack from Mellieħa to Marsaxlokk. Yet, after months of local complaints and viral TikToks capturing drilling at 1 p.m….
Paschalino Cefai and Mario Mifsud, two names that have dominated Maltese headlines for weeks, stepped out of the shadows of Valletta’s law courts yesterday and into an unexpected embrace that left onlookers whispering like extras on a film set. Moments earlier, both men had formally withdrawn their respective charges—Cefai’s accusation of assault and Mifsud’s counter-claim…
“Il-Quws” Walks Free After Victim’s Silence in Paola Courtroom Hot Malta Exclusive | By Maria Pace PAOLA – The small courtroom on Triq il-Bahar felt more like a parish hall than a place of justice on Tuesday morning. Elderly women in black clutched rosaries, teenagers live-streamed on TikTok, and the smell of ftira from the…
Maltese NGOs Rally Solidarity as Rights Group Reports 20 Missing After Deadly Indonesia Protests By Lara Pace, Valletta As the last ferry from Gozo glided into Ċirkewwa on Monday evening, mobile phones across Malta lit up with grim headlines: at least 20 Indonesian students and labour activists have vanished following violent protests in Jakarta. The…
