As the first Thursday of September dawns, the Maltese islands stir with the soft rustle of new beginnings. September 4, 2025 is not just another date on the civic calendar; it is the unofficial curtain-raiser to the season that locals call “l-awguri ġodda” – the fresh wishes. From the ferry decks of Gozo to the…
Valletta – It’s 05:45 on a humid August morning and 27-year-old Mandy* is already cycling from her shared flat in Gżira to the ferry terminal, laptop in backpack, gig-economy insulated bag strapped to the handlebars. By 06:30 she is steaming lattes for early commuters at a café kiosk in Valletta. At 10:00 she switches aprons…
Malta Consul Races to Casablanca: Lifeline Thrown to Maltese Prisoner in Dire Straits When the phone rang at 3:27 a.m. last Tuesday in the consular section of Malta’s Rabat headquarters, duty officer Maria Zammit recognised the Moroccan country code instantly. On the line was a frantic Maltese woman whose brother, 42-year-old welder and father-of-three Luke…
Sicily Highway Horror Claims Two Maltese Lives: Doris & Manuel Buhagiar Remembered The tight-knit village of Żurrieq woke yesterday to the kind of news that stops conversations mid-sentence: Doris and Manuel Buhagiar, a couple celebrated for their infectious laughter and devotion to family, were killed on Sunday evening in a head-on collision on the A20…
Maltese fishermen have always joked that the sea owns half our calendar—feast days, football finals, even weddings get planned around wind patterns and moon tides. Yesterday afternoon that old adage proved itself in the most dramatic way when a Marsascala trawler, the “Santa Katarina”, began taking on water five nautical miles south-east of St Thomas…
Watch: PM hints at financial compensation for family of Mirabelle Falzon Valletta – In a brief but loaded aside caught on camera during Tuesday’s parliamentary adjournment, Prime Minister Robert Abela appeared to open the door to “a measure of reparation” for the relatives of Mirabelle Falzon, the 20-year-old Gozitan woman whose 1980 disappearance remains one…
“YOU’RE JUST A FOREIGNER” – CAB DRIVER RECOUNTS THREATS FROM MALTESE PASSENGER ————————————————————————– It started like any other Friday night outside St Julian’s Bay. At 1:47 a.m., 34-year-old Nigerian-born driver *Emeka* flicked on his green taxi light and waited for the passenger who had just pinged the app. Within minutes, a man in a red…
ID card renewals outsourced to local councils to ‘ease the process’ Valletta – In a move that will bring government bureaucracy to village squares and parish steps, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has announced that national ID card renewals will soon be handled directly by local councils. The pilot project, launching next month across ten…
Domestic abuser back in court, charged with threatening mother of his children ================================================================================ A 38-year-old man from Żabbar, already convicted in 2021 for grievous bodily harm against his former partner, was hauled back before Magistrate Marse-Ann Farrugia on Wednesday after allegedly breaching a protection order just metres from the primary school their two children attend….
Couple trade accusations in Gozo holiday row that left both slightly injured By Hot Malta Newsroom Victoria, Gozo – What should have been a tranquil mid-week escape to Gozo’s honey-coloured villages turned into a very public spat on Wednesday afternoon, when a British-Maltese couple’s simmering tensions boiled over in front of the Citadel’s panoramic café…
A New Chapter for Malta’s Financial Guardians: MFSA Launches First-Ever “Journal of Financial Supervisors Academy” Valletta’s Grand Harbour shimmered under a late-spring sun this week as the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) unveiled Volume I of the Journal of Financial Supervisors Academy – a sleek, bilingual tome that locals are already calling “the little red…
Watch: Robert Abela eyes bringing SiGMA’s largest event back to Malta ——————————————————————– Prime Minister Robert Abela has set his sights on reclaiming one of the island’s most lucrative international gatherings, telling delegates at the SiGMA Asia summit in Manila that “Malta is ready to welcome the world’s biggest SiGMA show home again.” The comment, captured…
