Engine Oil Dumped Into Reservoir After Weeks Of Cleaning Work By Hot Malta Newsroom | 07:45, 10 June 2025 Wied il-Bużbież reservoir, the honey-coloured limestone basin that has collected winter rains for Attard, Mosta and Lija since the Knights, shimmered black on Monday morning. A slick of spent engine oil—thick enough to write your name…
Junior minister slams ‘unacceptable’ oil dumping into public reservoir By Hot Malta staff | Tuesday, 11 June 2025 | 5 min read A junior minister has branded the overnight dumping of used engine oil into Wied il-Luq reservoir “an attack on every Maltese family’s Sunday lunch,” as anger spreads across villages that rely on the…
Five Italian Teenagers Under Investigation for Alleged Gang Rape in St Julian’s: “This Is Not the Malta We Want,” Locals Say The early-hours calm of Malta’s party capital was shattered last weekend when police launched a gang-rape investigation involving five 17-year-old Italian tourists and a 24-year-old English woman who had been staying in a Paceville…
# Watch: Blame game erupts after fireworks set buses ablaze in Naxxar **Naxxar residents awoke to scenes of charred metal and acrid smoke on Sunday morning after two Arriva buses caught fire during the village feast celebrations, igniting a furious debate over Malta’s fireworks culture and public safety protocols.** The incident, captured in dramatic mobile…
**Screwdriver Threat Shines Harsh Light on Malta’s Hidden Domestic Violence Crisis** A 42-year-old man has been charged with holding a screwdriver to his partner’s neck and threatening to kill her after she refused to have sex with him, a Valletta court heard on Tuesday. The accused, whose name cannot be published by order of the…
Valletta wakes up to shockwaves from the Gulf: Israeli airstrikes on Doha that reportedly eliminated Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh have rattled Malta’s tight-knit Arab diaspora, triggered emergency consular checks and reignited debate on the island’s role as a neutral bridge between Europe and the Middle East. The pre-dawn explosions, which Qatari authorities blame on…
**Cacopardo’s Electoral Surprise: A Tale of Two Parties and One Very Confused Database** Arnold Cacopardo couldn’t believe his eyes when the envelope arrived. Seventeen years after publicly burning his Nationalist Party membership card in protest, the former PN executive committee member had been invited to vote in the party’s upcoming leadership election. “I thought it…
Valletta’s Republic Street was briefly louder than the usual midday café chatter on Thursday, as a dozen young architects and activists unfurled a hand-painted banner that read “Homes Not Holding Companies” and chanted “MDA, let us build!” Passers-by stopped sipping their kinnie, tourists lowered their cameras, and pensioners on the City Gate benches leaned forward…
Valletta – A 34-year-old Maltese national has been handed a six-month effective jail term after admitting he used a forged French passport to try to slip out of Malta undetected, reigniting debate on how far islanders will go to sidestep Schengen visa rules and reach the continent. Magistrate Natasha Sciberras heard how Kurt Micallef, unemployed…
George Degiorgio, the self-styled “kingfish” of Malta’s 2017 car-bomb underworld, has slipped back into the national conversation from behind the grey walls of Corradino Correctional Facility. In a handwritten plea sent to President Myriam Spiteri Debono last week, the convicted killer of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is offering to trade names—”prominent people” he claims are…
**Watch: Fireworks linked to blaze that destroys buses but enthusiasts blame owner** A dawn inferno that gutted three tourist coaches in Qormi on Sunday has reignited Malta’s perennial fireworks debate, after amateur video showed a rocket streaking into the depot seconds before flames erupted. While investigators remain cautious, the footage—shared thousands of times by Monday…
Valletta’s cafés were buzzing this morning with talk of a scandal that feels oceans away yet curiously close to home: the U.S. House Oversight Committee’s late-night release of a 1993 birthday note that Donald Trump allegedly scribbled to financier-turned-convicted-sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Happy birthday, Jeff,” the single sentence reads, scrawled across Trump Tower letterhead and accompanied…
