**From Junior Councils to University Halls: How Malta is Raising a New Generation of Student Leaders** *By Hot Malta Staff* VALLETTA – While most teens are still deciding which TikTok filter to use, 17-year-old Martina Camilleri from Żejtun is negotiating a €15,000 budget with the Mayor for a new youth chill-out zone complete with recycled-plastic…
**The Night the Harbour Roared: How Operation Halberd Fed Malta’s Fighting Spirit** It was just past 21:00 on 27 September 1941 when the blackout curtains of Valletta’s bombed-out cafés fluttered from the inside—people couldn’t resist peeking at the thunder echoing across Grand Harbour. Searchlights sliced the sky, not for enemy aircraft this time, but to…
‘I’m Impersonating My Mother’s Scammer to Save Her’: How One Maltese Son Turned the Tables on Fraudsters Targeting Malta’s Elderly By Hot Malta Staff | 09 June 2025, 07:30 CEST Valletta – When 34-year-old Miguel* from Żejtun answered a WhatsApp call last March, he expected another routine check-in with his 72-year-old mother, Carmen. Instead, he…
Victoria’s Heartbreak: Gozo’s Capital Mourns as Centuries-Old Buildings Crumble in Weekend Deluge It started with a low rumble that echoed through the narrow alleys of Victoria just after dawn on Saturday, a sound locals describe as “the city sighing.” By the time the church bells of the Basilica of St George rang for the 7…
In pictures: Airshow wows the crowds despite inclement weather By Hot Malta Staff Żonqor Point, Marsascala – Grey skies and a brisk north-westerly swell did little to dampen Maltese spirits on Sunday as the Malta International Airshow roared back into life after a three-year pandemic hiatus. Rain ponchos replaced sunscreen, pastizzi were eaten under umbrellas…
Burmarrad’s fields fell silent at 3:47 a.m. on Tuesday when the last tongue of flame was finally drowned by a chain of beaters, backpacks and brine. What began as a spark on a stone-wall edge at 22:30 the previous night turned into a five-hour pitched battle between 34 firefighters, Civil Protection volunteers and a wind…
**Mother’s Plea Shakes Malta: ‘Our Baby Only Calms With His Father’ Sparks Soul-Searching Over Domestic Violence** A courtroom in Valletta fell silent last week when a 26-year-old Maltese mother, her lip still split from a punch delivered in front of their toddler, asked Magistrate Marse-Ann Farrugia to spare her ex-partner prison. “Jien ma nridux ħabs…
**Watch: Italy seizes over 300 tons of counterfeit cigarettes – what it means for Malta** Italy’s Guardia di Finanza made headlines this week after confiscating a staggering 310 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes in the port of Gioia Tauro, Calabria – enough to fill 13 forty-foot containers and evade €60 million in excise tax. Hidden inside…
Three teenagers were hauled before a Maltese magistrate on Tuesday after police said they had dismantled a “mini-criminal ring” responsible for a spate of motorbike thefts that has left riders from Valletta to Victoria checking their locks twice before bed. The suspects – two 17-year-olds and one 19-year-old from Żejtun, Msida and Rabat – stood…
Your last chance to vote for your favourite restaurant By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s seafront was still glowing with Christmas lights when Nadine Camilleri, 34, tapped “submit” on her phone and watched the confirmation screen pop up: “Thank you for voting in the Malta Restaurant Awards 2024.” For the St Julian’s marketing executive it was…
Have you seen this woman? The question is suddenly everywhere—printed on A4 sheets taped to bus shelters from Valletta to Victoria, shared furiously on Maltese Facebook groups, whispered between mothers waiting outside San Ġwann primary school. The face staring back is unmistakably local: honey-toned skin, dark eyebrows, the kind of effortless smile you see on…
Alex Borg begins shadow cabinet reshuffle By Hot Malta Newsroom | 09:42 • 24 June 2025 Valletta’s early-summer haze had barely lifted on Monday when Alex Borg, the Nationalist Party’s freshly re-elected leader, strode out of the doors of the Auberge d’Aragon and announced the first shake-up of his shadow cabinet. In a seven-minute press…
