**PN Slams Government’s ‘So-Called’ Planning Reform, Demands Complete Withdrawal Amid Heritage Fears** Valletta – The Nationalist Party has fired a blistering broadside at Robert Abela’s administration, formally submitting a 38-page rebuttal that brands the proposed planning reform “a cultural bulldozer in a tailor-made suit”. PN leader Bernard Grech personally delivered the document to the Planning…
Valletta’s Parliament may sit 1,400 km from New York’s East River, but when the UN General Assembly votes this Thursday on a resolution that would recognise a Hamas-free Palestinian state, the ripple will be felt in every Maltese living-room, parish hall and band club that still remembers the 1948 refugee ships that steamed past our…
Petromal’s New Chairman Was Part of Committee That Recommended Vitals – and the Island Is Already Grumbling By Hot Malta Staff | 07 June 2025 | Local News, Politics Valletta’s summer haze hadn’t even properly settled when the appointment landed like a pastizz that’s been left in the fryer too long: Petromal – the state…
Watch: Alex Borg confident he can win election in less than a year By Hot Malta Staff | 7 min read “Give me eleven months, a rented Qormi garage and a WhatsApp group that never sleeps, and I’ll give you a seat in Parliament.” That’s the swaggering promise Alex Borg served up last night in…
**Ireland threatens Eurovision boycott if Israel takes part** *Malta’s Eurovision community watches nervously as political storm clouds gather over 2024 contest* By [Author Name] | Hot Malta Valletta – While Malta’s Eurovision fans are still buzzing from The Busker’s feel-good trip to Liverpool, a fresh political storm is brewing that could split the contest down…
ADPD unveils ‘Green Vision’ as alternative to government’s Vision 2050 ————————————————————— By [Author Name], Hot Malta Floriana’s leafy Argotti Gardens were an apt stage on Sunday morning as ADPD chairperson Sandra Gauci unfurled a banner reading “A Green Vision for Malta, not a concrete delusion.” Flanked by cyclists, farmers from Żebbiegħ, and Gozitan students clutching…
**Row as EU Parliament Refuses Tribute to Charlie Kirk: What Malta’s Youth Make of the Free-Speech Storm** Valletta’s teenage debaters were still re-enacting last week’s historic abortion vote in the European Parliament when a fresh Brussels bombshell reached the island: a centre-right request to honour 30-year-old US conservative star Charlie Kirk with an official Strasbourg…
# Court Rejects Yorgen Fenech’s Bid to Void Police Statements Over Drug Use In a landmark ruling that has sent ripples through Malta’s legal and political landscape, the Criminal Court has dismissed Yorgen Fenech’s attempt to invalidate crucial police statements, rejecting claims that his alleged drug use during interrogation rendered them inadmissible. The decision, delivered…
**Delia Admits He Green-Lit Letter That Disputed 100 Voters’ Right to Cast Ballot in Rabat** Nationalist Party heavyweight Adrian Delia has confirmed, on the record, that he personally approved the controversial 2022 letter which questioned the eligibility of roughly 100 voters in Rabat – a revelation that is sending tremors through an already jittery PN…
Maltese MEPs back Gaza ceasefire, sanctions on Hamas, urgent humanitarian aid By [Author Name], Hot Malta Valletta – All six Maltese members of the European Parliament have thrown their weight behind a cross-party resolution demanding an “immediate and sustained” ceasefire in Gaza, targeted EU sanctions on Hamas leaders, and a humanitarian corridor that would allow…
Adrian Delia deletes ‘racist’ post, claiming he was misinterpreted: how a midnight meme lit Malta’s internet on fire By 2 a.m. on Tuesday, the WhatsApp forwards had already reached Gozo. A grainy screen-grab—Nationalist MP Adrian Delia sharing a Facebook meme that juxtaposed a photo of a crowded Ħamrun street with the caption “Is this Malta…
Valletta’s courtroom number four was packed tighter than a festa pyrotechnics van yesterday when magistrate Rachel Montebello threw out freshly-arrived evidence from the FBI, ruling that the 2 000-page digital dossier landed too late to be fairly examined by 24-year-old Daniel Meli and his three co-accused. The decision is the latest twist in Malta’s first-ever…
