**Paola’s Health Centre Moves to Long-Awaited Hub: “Finally, a Clinic That Matches Our Pride”** After years of makeshift corridors and queues that spilled onto the pavement, Paola’s primary health services will finally shift into their long-promised, €14 million health hub this Monday, 24 June. Doors open at 07:00 sharp—nurses have already stocked the fridges, pharmacists…
Project Green begins work on new park in Fgura By Hot Malta Staff Fgura’s skyline of honey-coloured blocks and parish-dome glitter is about to get its first real lung. On Monday morning, bulldozers painted in the fresh mint livery of Project Green rolled onto a 4,500-square-metre wedge of disused government land just off Triq il-Fgura…
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…
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…
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…
Court orders education authorities to enrol two children in school ================================================================= **In a landmark ruling that reverberated through Malta’s tight-knit communities, a judge has ordered the Director of Education to immediately enrol two primary-aged siblings in their neighbourhood Church school after months of bureaucratic limbo.** The children, aged six and eight, had been left without…
**Public invited to shape Malta’s future in ENVISION2050 consultation** Maltese citizens are being handed the microphone to help script the next chapter of the islands’ story. ENVISION2050, the national consultation launched last week by the Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise, is inviting everyone—from Gozitan farmers to Sliema start-ups—to paint a collective picture of…
