**We Are Slaves of the Law: How Malta’s Legal Web Captures Everyday Life** The phrase “we are slaves of the law” rings louder in Malta than almost anywhere else in Europe. On an island barely 27 km long, the law is not an abstract statue in a distant capital—it is the neighbour who reports your…
**Keith Schembri’s Assistant Messaged Yorgen Fenech Hours Before His Arrest: A Nation Left Reeling** In the early hours of November 20, 2019, as Malta slept fitfully under the weight of its own political turmoil, a WhatsApp message pinged on Yorgen Fenech’s phone. The sender: Karl Cini, right-hand man to then-Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour was still cloaked in dawn haze when Foreign Minister Ian Borg stepped up to the UN rostrum in New York and declared, “Malta recognises the State of Palestine.” The sentence, delivered at yesterday’s General Assembly summit, lasted four seconds—but it has been echoing across the archipelago ever since, from the pigeon-flecked balconies…
# President Emmanuel Macron Recognises Palestinian State at Landmark UN Summit: Maltese Leaders Hail “Courageous Step” as Valletta Prepares to Host Mediterranean Peace Dialogue Valletta’s Republic Street buzzed with more than the usual Friday-evening chatter last night as word spread that French President Emmanuel Macron had used the podium of the United Nations General Assembly…
**Jimmy Kimmel Returns: What Malta’s All-Night Streamers Need to Know** Disney has confirmed that *Jimmy Kimmel Live!* will be back on air this Tuesday, ending the writers’ strike hiatus that began in May. For Malta’s growing cohort of night-owls, expat teachers, and iGaming shift-workers who rely on ABC’s YouTube drop to bookmark their 3 a.m….
**Nine Months Behind Bars for Umbrella-Wielding Attacker Who Ambushed PA Officers** A Marsa man who turned a humble Maltese umbrella into a weapon against two Planning Authority enforcement officers has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment, in a case that has sent ripples through Malta’s tight-knit community of building-permit enforcers and reignited debate over the…
Rosianne Cutajar is back on Parliament’s health committee, and the whispers from Valletta cafés to village band clubs are already louder than the noon cannon. Prime Minister Robert Abela’s decision to re-instate the Labour MP from Qormi in the health portfolio—while shuffling a handful of other backbench roles—has reignited a very Maltese cocktail of political…
Speeding past the illuminated façade of the Casino di Venezia on Tuesday night, a 27-year-old Birkirkara resident thought he could outrun Malta’s thin blue line. He was wrong. At 23:47 his Peugeot 308 clipped a centre-island planter on the Msida traffic fly-over, flipped twice, and came to rest against the newly unveiled “Jannar 2024” billboard…
**UK Charity Axes Prince Andrew’s Ex-Wife Over Epstein Email – What It Means for Malta’s Own Royal Watchers** *By Hot Malta Staff* VALLETTA – When news broke that British charity *Key to Freedom* had quietly severed ties with Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, after an email surfaced linking her to Jeffrey Epstein’s circle, the ripple…
What’s on in Malta and Gozo this week: September 22 to 28, 2025 By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s Republic Street smells of freshly-ground coffee and ħobż biż-żejt this Monday morning, but by sunset the scent will shift to warm honey and almonds – the first trays of imqaret being fried for Notte Bianca. The capital’s…
**8,600 State-School Educators Return to Classrooms as Malta Embraces New Scholastic Year** The familiar hum of schoolyards across Malta and Gozo returned this week as 8,600 state-school educators headed back to their classrooms, marking the official launch of the 2024-2025 scholastic year. From the historic streets of Valletta to the quiet villages of Gozo, teachers,…
Leonardo DiCaprio storms back onto the screen this month in “One Battle After Another,” a razor-sharp political thriller that feels almost tailor-made for Maltese audiences still dizzy from our own revolving-door governments and Panama-scented headlines. The two-time Oscar winner plays a dogged American investigative reporter who uncovers a covert network of shell companies funnelling dark…
