**‘Ban donations from big business’, Richard Cachia Caruana says** In a rare public intervention, veteran strategist Richard Cachia Caruana has called for an outright ban on corporate donations to Maltese political parties, warning that the island’s “kitchen-table democracy” is being quietly suffocated by board-room money. Speaking to students at the University of Malta’s Valletta campus…
Inside the PN’s chaotic leadership election night: cheers, tears and a party staring at itself in the mirror By Hot Malta Newsroom Midnight had already tolled from the belfry of Mosta Dome when the first shout went up. “Viva Bernard! Viva Adrian!” The voices clashed, not in unison but in competition, ricocheting off the limestone…
**Global Outcry as Media Giants Urge Malta to Reject Degiorgio Pardon Plea** Valletta – A coalition of the world’s most influential press-freedom organisations has delivered an unprecedented rebuke to Malta, formally requesting that President Myriam Spiteri Debono “firmly reject” the pardon petition filed by Vincent Muscat il-Koħħu, one of the three men convicted of assassinating…
**Degiorgio Brothers Remain Key Witnesses as Fenech Trial Looms Over Malta** The ghosts of Malta’s most seismic assassination case continue to haunt the nation’s courts, as the Degiorgio brothers maintain their controversial positions on the witness list for Yorgen Fenech’s upcoming trial. This development sends ripples through a country still grappling with the aftermath of…
**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…
Cacopardo ‘not surprised’ by PN voters dispute, says he was told he could vote By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s coffee shops were still humming with post-election cappuccino post-mortems when Arnold Cassola dropped the bombshell: “Hundreds of non-members appear on the PN electoral list.” Within minutes, the phone rang in Carmel Cacopardo’s Valletta apartment. “Did you…
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…
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…
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…
Borg, Delia hold first meeting after PN election: a coffee, a handshake, and the ghost of 2017 Valletta’s Café Cordina was still perfumed with pastizzi steam yesterday morning when Bernard Grech’s two erstwhile rivals met for the first time since Saturday’s bruising Nationalist Party leadership contest. Adrian Delia, the ousted leader who refuses to leave…
**Azzopardi Tanti insists he hired Cardona purely for his economy expertise** Businessman and Labour Party donor Joseph Tanti “Azzopardi” has broken his silence over the appointment of disgraced former minister Chris Cardona to the board of his construction empire, insisting the decision was based solely on Cardona’s “unmatched grasp of macro-economic levers” and not on…
Alex Borg says he plans small changes to the shadow cabinet Valletta – The Nationalist Party’s newly-appointed deputy leader for parliamentary affairs, Alex Borg, has told Hot Malta he is preparing “targeted, surgical tweaks rather than a grand reshuffle” to the opposition’s shadow cabinet, a move that could ripple across village band clubs, parish youth…
