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 Moments earlier, both men had formally withdrawn their respective charges—Cefai’s accusation of assault and Mifsud’s counter-claim…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…
Science by sea: new luzzu route connects Sliema and Valletta to Esplora By Hot Malta Correspondent At 8:30 on a brisk April morning, the first passengers clambered onto a freshly painted luzzu moored below the Sliema Ferries kiosk. Instead of the usual jaunt to Comino, the boat’s bright red, blue and yellow bow pointed south-east,…
Trump Waves Off Health Rumours as “Fake News” – How a Maltese Twitter Storm Turned into Café Chatter Overnight By Luke Briffa | Hot Malta VALLETTA – “President Trump is 78, eats like a pastizz addict and still insists he’s ‘healthier than ever’,” joked Carmel Zahra over a mid-morning espresso at Caffé Cordina. The 67-year-old…
Woman jailed after admitting to stealing €250 in tips from Mellieħa kiosk The quiet seaside village of Mellieħa woke up yesterday to the kind of headline that feels almost surreal in a place where shop doors still stay open and neighbours still greet each other by name. A 34-year-old local woman has been handed a…
