Swieqi residents have finally caught the ear of the nation’s highest watchdog. Ombudsman Joseph A. Bartolo announced today that his office will open a formal investigation into complaints that overtourism is “eroding the very fabric” of this once-quiet micro-municipality perched above St Julian’s. The move comes after a petition signed by 412 households—roughly one in…
Have You Seen This Man? How One Missing-Person Poster Became a National Mirror By now the black-and-white flyer is everywhere: taped to bus shelters in Valletta, wedged under windscreen wipers outside the Gozo ferry, wedged between pastizzi trays at the Naxxar band club. “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?” the headline demands in bold block letters….
Watch: How roadside drug tests will work in practice – and why every Maltese driver needs to pay attention Just after sunrise on a Thursday in Gżira, Transport Malta officers set up a discreet checkpoint beside the yacht marina. A queue of commuters inch forward, coffee cups in hand, when a plain-clothes officer waves a…
Floriana’s regeneration begins with its people By Hot Malta Correspondent If you walk through Floriana at 7 a.m. on any weekday you will find the same ritual: elderly men at the Granaries rolling cigarettes and arguing about football, schoolchildren chasing pigeons across Piazza San Publiju, and the scent of ftira biż-żejt drifting from the hole-in-the-wall…
Majority of Maltese Feel Country on Right Track for First Time Since 2022 By a Hot Malta Correspondent | 09 June 2024 For the first time in 24 months, more Maltese than not believe Malta is “heading in the right direction,” according to the latest MaltaToday survey released this morning. The turnaround—51 % positive versus…
Fort Binġemma – what next? Locals demand a future worthy of Mellieħa’s silent sentinel From the ridge above Għajn Tuffieħa, the honey-coloured limestone of Fort Binġemma glows every sunset like a half-remembered promise. Built by the British in the 1870s to deter an Italian invasion that never came, the fort has spent most of its…
Watch: People with disabilities ‘imprisoned’ in their flats for over a month By Hot Malta Correspondent A grainy video circulating on Maltese social media this week shows a wheelchair user banging on a locked lift door in a Buġibba block while his neighbour, a blind woman, tries to calm him from the stairwell above. For…
Over 1,200 Maltese residents have already signed up for free consultations with the newly launched BCA Lawyers & Architects clinic, turning what began as a modest community initiative into a nationwide conversation about access to justice and good design. The figures, released this morning by the Building & Construction Alliance (BCA), have taken even the…
Kathryn Bigelow Returns to Venice with Political Thriller – Why Malta Should Watch Closely By Hot Malta Staff Writer VENICE – As the 81st Venice Film Festival unfurls its red carpet this week, American director Kathryn Bigelow storms back into the Lido with “Requiem for the Fallen,” a pulse-quickening political thriller set against a fictional…
Valletta – A well-known chef who once championed farm-to-table menus and championed Maltese produce on prime-time TV cooking shows appeared behind the reinforced glass of the Criminal Court on Thursday, charged with raping and stalking his wife after allegedly subjecting her to years of systematic physical and psychological abuse. The 41-year-old restaurateur, whose downtown Valletta…
Man Denies Sharing Indecent Photo of Ex and Holding Her Against Her Will: A Case That Cuts to Malta’s Core Valletta’s ancient stone corridors echoed with more than footsteps this week as a 29-year-old Marsascala man stood in the dock, pleading not guilty to charges that read like a cautionary tale for the digital age:…
No Hammering While We’re Having Ħobż: Momentum Wants Lunchtime & Weekend Peace Malta’s love affair with construction is almost as old as the honey-ring. Cranes slice the skyline like modern luzzus, and jackhammers provide the daily soundtrack from Mellieħa to Marsaxlokk. Yet, after months of local complaints and viral TikToks capturing drilling at 1 p.m….
