**Dreams from Malta: Four Visual Narratives Capture Island Life Through Local Eyes** In a dimly lit Valletta studio, four Maltese photographers are transforming personal visions into collective memory. Their exhibition “Dreams from Malta,” opening this Friday at Spazju Kreattiv, offers more than aesthetic pleasure—it’s a mirror held up to contemporary Maltese identity, reflecting both aspirations…
**Watch: Investigators plead for public’s help in Charlie Kirk killing** The grainy CCTV footage flickers across Maltese screens like a scene from Netflix, but this is no crime drama. Charlie Kirk – the 23-year-old British tourist whose smile lit up TikTok feeds from Paceville to Pembroke – is dead, and Malta’s summer of carefree parties…
Letters to the editor – September 12, 2025 By Hot Malta staff The traditional “letters to the editor” page has always been Malta’s most democratic square metre of newsprint, but this morning’s bundle in the Times of Malta, Malta Today and L-Orizzont feels less like a polite column and more like a national group-chat that…
Valletta’s baroque balconies were draped in rainbow flags long before the first hymn echoed inside St John’s Co-Cathedral last Saturday. Inside, Archbishop Charles Scicluna had just proclaimed a “Jubilee of Grace” for LGBTQ+ Catholics—an historic concession that turned the island’s most hallowed nave into a technicolour tapestry of tears, cheers, and nervous genuflections. For many…
**See, Hear and Speak Out: How Malta’s Communities Are Turning Up the Volume on Justice** Valletta’s Republic Street at noon is a symphony of honking horns, clattering coffee cups and vendors hawking pastizzi. Yet beneath the everyday racket, a quieter chorus is swelling—one that invites every Maltese citizen to *see* injustice, *hear* the vulnerable and…
On the road not taken: How Malta’s forgotten routes are shaping our future The morning mist still clings to the limestone walls of Siġġiewi when 73-year-old Ċikku Camilleri swings open the iron gate that has guarded his family’s fields since 1897. Instead of turning left onto the freshly-laid tarmac that would whisk him to Rabat…
Watch: Alex Borg confident he can win election in less than a year By Hot Malta Staff | 7 min read “Give me eleven months, a rented Qormi garage and a WhatsApp group that never sleeps, and I’ll give you a seat in Parliament.” That’s the swaggering promise Alex Borg served up last night in…
**UK Seeks Extradition of Maltese Mother Accused of Assaulting Son: A Nation Divided** A quiet morning in a sleepy Gozo village has spiraled into a national conversation about justice, motherhood, and Malta’s place in an increasingly interconnected world. The UK’s formal request for the extradition of 38-year-old Maltese mother-of-two Marisa* (name changed to protect the…
Valletta’s evening television bulletins flickered with an image that looked alien yet chillingly familiar: a grainy FBI flyer bearing the face of a “person of interest” in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk. Within minutes, Maltese social media timelines were awash with side-by-side comparisons to video-game villains, memes of “The…
**Gozo’s First Domestic Violence Hub: 150 Cases in Less Than a Year Signal Urgent Need for Island-Wide Support** In the shadow of Gozo’s picturesque citadels and rural charm lies a stark reality that has long remained hidden behind closed doors. The island’s first dedicated domestic violence support hub has revealed the true scale of abuse…
Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with yesterday’s Eurovision semifinal when phones lit up with a push-alert that felt oceans away: US police have video footage of the suspect who gunned down 31-year-old Charlie Kirk outside a Turning Point USA rally in Detroit, and the murder weapon has been recovered. Yet in a country where 92…
Minimal tremors on the Malta Stock Exchange feel like a summer breeze in Valletta’s Upper Barrakka Gardens: pleasant, barely noticeable, yet whispering of bigger weather somewhere else. While global headlines scream about tech sell-offs and crypto crashes, the local equity board blinked in near-stillness this week—MSE index up 0.07 %, turnover a modest €240,000, no…
