A 28-year-old man from Żebbuġ spent 48 hours in an induced coma after a single punch sent him crashing onto the pavement outside a popular Paceville nightclub, a court heard on Tuesday. The alleged assailant, 24-year-old Birkirkara resident Luke Camilleri, was charged with grievous bodily harm and released on bail against a €10,000 personal guarantee….
Serving authenticity: how Malta’s new wave of restaurateurs are ditching the tourist trap and cooking like nanna did By Hot Malta staff | Sunday 09:42 Żebbuġ farmer Luke Muscat never meant to become the face of a movement. He simply wanted a place where he could pour his own wine—made from vines his great-grandfather planted…
Letters to the editor – September 24, 2025 By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s morning sun had barely gilded the limestone balconies when the first email landed in the Times of Malta inbox: “Whose pavement is it anyway?” By lunchtime, the digital postbag held 43 more, and the newsroom coffee machine was working overtime. Welcome to…
# Announcements – September 24, 2025: A Day of New Beginnings for Malta As the first hints of autumn cool the limestone walls of Valletta, September 24, 2025, dawns with a series of announcements that promise to reshape Malta’s cultural and social landscape. From the bustling streets of Sliema to the quiet fishing villages of…
**HSBC Strike Enters Day 3 Amid Payout Dispute: Maltese Workers Stand Firm** The marble floors of HSBC’s flagship Valletta branch remain eerily quiet as Malta’s largest bank faces its third consecutive day of industrial action, with hundreds of employees forming picket lines that snake past the historic limestone buildings lining Republic Street. The dispute centers…
Lands chief received payments from Fortina CEO in year of ‘undervalued’ deal ———————————————— By [Hot Malta Staff] | 06 June 2025 | 09:00 CEST Sliema’s seafront has always been a stage where money, sun and history collide. Joggers pant past 19th-century townhouses, pensioners feed pigeons under tamarisk trees, and developers circle like gulls above a…
**Trump’s NATO Bombast Echoes Across the Grand Harbour: Could Malta Be Caught in the Crossfire?** Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso steam when Donald Trump’s latest foreign-policy grenade landed on Maltese phones: the former U.S. president wants NATO states to shoot down Russian jets that breach their airspace. In a country where every…
Valletta’s 17th-century Parliament was buzzing louder than a summer festa on Tuesday evening as MPs kicked off the first reading of a bill to resurrect Malta’s dedicated Commercial Court – a tribunal that traders, start-ups and even band-club treasurers have been clamouring for since it was quietly mothballed back in 2005. For anyone who has…
**University of Malta Launches Ground-Breaking Academic Journal on Gender and Sexuality** The University of Malta has announced the launch of a pioneering academic journal dedicated to gender and sexuality studies, marking a significant milestone for the island nation’s academic and LGBTQ+ communities. The publication, titled “Journal of Mediterranean Gender and Sexuality Studies,” will serve as…
**Malta’s Sunny Economy Faces Storm Warning: EU Report Flags Islands Among Most Weather-Exposed** Valletta – For generations, Maltese children have been warned that “ix-xemx mhux dejjem tidħol bieb it-tieqa” – the sun doesn’t always shine through the same window. Now Brussels has turned the proverb into hard numbers: Malta ranks third among all EU economies…
Valletta – A 38-year-old mother of two from Żejtun walked out of Malta’s Courts of Justice on Tuesday afternoon with tears in her eyes and a small Maltese flag pressed to her chest after magistrate Gabriella Vella cleared her of charges that she had fabricated domestic-violence complaints against her former husband. The verdict, delivered after…
**PN MP Demands Dedicated Shelters for Homeless Drug Addicts: “We Can’t Keep Pretending the Problem Doesn’t Exist”** A Nationalist MP has shattered Parliament’s usual decorum with a blunt wake-up call: Malta’s growing army of homeless drug users is sleeping in doorways, overdosing in public toilets and being “treated like stray cats” because the island offers…
