A Night That Shook the Grand Harbour: One Man’s Fall, One Island’s Heart By Hot Malta Staff | 08:30 • 12 June 2024 It was just past 23:30 when the emergency call crackled over VHF Channel 12: “Urgent, man overboard—Valletta Waterfront, heavy fall.” Moments later, sirens sliced through the warm June air, racing along the…
Tourist fined and licence suspended after admitting to drink driving charges – but locals say the real damage is to Malta’s reputation A 28-year-old British tourist has been fined €1,200 and had his Maltese driving licence suspended for 18 months after pleading guilty to drink-driving in St Julian’s early Sunday morning. The incident, which unfolded…
ADPD turns up heat on Project Green in Mosta valley: “Who really benefits from this €50 million facelift?” The green benches of Parliament were barely warm on Monday afternoon when ADPD Chairperson Sandra Gauci strode out and handed the Office of the Ombudsman a thick dossier bound in recycled cardboard. Inside: photographs of uprooted carob…
Grants for walking commuters and business tax breaks among SME budget proposals —————————————————————————– Valletta’s morning rush hour is no longer just a blur of honking horns and exhaust fumes. As the 2025 Budget Bill edges closer to debate, a quietly revolutionary clause is doing the rounds in the capital’s cafés: up-front grants of up to…
Seven developers have thrown their hats into the ring to deliver badly-needed affordable homes across Malta, the Planning Authority confirmed this week – the largest single response to any public land call in the last decade. The bids, submitted before Monday’s midnight deadline, cover three publicly-owned sites: the former Żonqor military barracks in Marsascala, the…
The Right to the Roof Over Our Heads: When Maltese Property Law Meets the Human Heart By Hot Malta On a narrow Sliema side-street, a 92-year-old woman named Maria* still hangs her washing from the same limestone balcony her mother used in 1948. Across the closed wooden door, a freshly printed court notice declares that…
Court overturns uninsured driving conviction after case is time-barred – a Maltese legal wake-up call By Sarah Vella, Hot Malta A €400 fine and six penalty points have been wiped off a Mellieħa driver’s record after Malta’s Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that prosecutors missed the two-year cut-off for pressing charges. The decision, handed down…
How to stop Malta’s ride-hailing sector from potential money laundering risks By Hot Malta | 6 min read On any given Friday evening, the streets of Sliema and St Julian’s throb with a familiar rhythm: cars with green Uber and Bolt stickers jostle with dusty white taxis whose drivers still quote “€20 to Valletta” like…
Pay People €2.50 Every Time They Use the Bus? A Bold Plan to Get Malta Moving Again By Hot Malta | Published 09:45 CEST, 23 May 2024 Strolling past the crumbling limestone facades of Strait Street on a May morning, you can almost taste the diesel in the air: delivery vans double-parked outside cafés, ride-shares…
Pensioners awarded compensation over savings plan promises ———————————————————- Floriana’s law courts echoed with quiet cheers yesterday as 127 Maltese pensioners – many clutching rosaries and grandchildren’s hands – finally heard the words they had waited eight years for: “You are entitled to full restitution, plus moral damages.” The landmark judgment closes a painful chapter that…
Saturday, 6 September 2025 dawned with the first wisps of the Sirocco still clinging to the limestone walls, yet Valletta’s streets were already humming. Beneath fluttering bandiera Maltija hanging from wrought-iron balconies, Prime Minister Roberta Pace stepped onto the Palace balcony at 9.30 a.m. sharp—heralding a day of announcements that will ripple through every village…
In Pictures: Victory Day Celebrations Kick Off in Valletta The cannon boomed across Grand Harbour at sunrise, and Valletta’s honey-coloured bastions lit up in the warm glow of a thousand camera flashes. By 7 a.m., the Upper Barrakka Gardens were already humming with families waving Maltese flags, pensioners polishing miniature George Cross medals, and teenagers…
