**Aron Mifsud Bonnici Seeks to Dodge Money Laundering Trial with Fine Deal** In a move that has sent ripples through Malta’s tight-knit business community, prominent entrepreneur Aron Mifsud Bonnici has petitioned the courts to settle his money laundering case through a financial penalty rather than face a potentially explosive trial. The request, filed last week…
**Malta’s Nation League Hopes: A Small Island, One Big Dream** *By Hot Malta Newsroom* The rain that lashed Ta’ Qali on Tuesday night had barely dried when the first flags appeared on balconies in Birkirkara. By Wednesday morning, the kiosk outside the Ħamrun scouts’ club had sold out of red T-shirts in every size but…
Aron Mifsud Bonnici, the criminal-law heavyweight whose surname alone evokes centuries of Maltese legal lore, has quietly filed a judicial protest that could snuff out one of the island’s most politically-charged tax-evasion cases before it ever sees a jury. The move, confirmed to Hot Malta by two separate court sources, targets the Commissioner for Revenue…
For 400 years the honey-coloured limestone façade of Dar Saura has watched over Triq il-Kbira in Żejtun like a silent elder, its Baroque balconies shuttered to all but pigeons and passing clouds. This Saturday and Sunday, for the first time in its long life, the doors of one of Malta’s last intact 17th-century urban palazzi…
**Boy, 16, Seriously Injured in E-Scooter Crash with Car in Sliema** A 16-year-old boy is fighting for his life following a collision between his e-scooter and a car on the Sliema seafront on Tuesday evening, reigniting fierce debate about micro-mobility safety and regulation in Malta. The teenager, whose identity has not been released, suffered serious…
Valletta-born physiotherapist Rebecca Camilleri has spent the last decade patching up rock-climbing injuries at the national sports pavilion in Cottonera, but in three weeks’ time she will be the one needing ice-packs and altitude meds. The 34-year-old mother of twin girls is flying to Argentina to attempt Aconcagua—at 6,961 m the tallest peak outside Asia—and,…
**Maltese in France Caught in Crossfire as Macron Faces Day of ‘Anger’** Valletta – While Malta slept through a quiet Wednesday night, Maltese expatriates living in France woke to the sound of sirens and shuttered Métro stations as the country ground to a halt in the largest wave of strikes since President Emmanuel Macron pushed…
# Inside the compliance-first AI engine publishing 500 slot comparisons a day **How a Sliema start-up quietly became the iGaming world’s fastest reviewer—while staying on the right side of Malta’s watchdog** By 9 a.m. the cappuccinos are already cooling on the balconies of Tower Road, but inside a converted sea-front townhouse a cluster of GPUs…
**Woman Accused of Scissors Mugging of Taxi Driver Granted Bail, Sparking Debate Over Safety of Malta’s Cab Industry** A 28-year-old woman from Żejtun has been granted bail after allegedly holding up a taxi driver with a pair of scissors in the early hours of last Saturday morning, in an incident that has reignited concerns over…
**Glitter and Soviet nostalgia: Russia revives Eurovision rival contest** While Valletta’s Eurovision village was still buzzing from this year’s Liverpool spectacular, Moscow quietly dropped a glitter bomb of its own: the Intervision Song Contest is back, baby – and Malta’s vintage euro-philes are feeling all the feels. For anyone under 40, Intervision sounds like a…
**Sliema startup’s ‘study buddy’ AI promises to turn Malta into the Mediterranean’s smartest island** The bell at the University of Malta’s Msida campus hasn’t even finished echoing across the quadrangle when a knot of students outside the library already have their phones out. But they’re not scrolling TikTok – they’re talking to “Ari”, a new…
**Momentum joins call to boycott Eurovision if Israel participates** Malta’s activist collective Momentum has thrown its weight behind a growing European movement calling for a Eurovision Song Contest boycott should Israel compete in next year’s competition, setting the stage for a national conversation that stretches far beyond the glittering pop spectacle. The grassroots organisation, known…
