**Gozo’s First Domestic Violence Hub: 150 Cases in Less Than a Year Signal Urgent Need for Island-Wide Support** In the shadow of Gozo’s picturesque citadels and rural charm lies a stark reality that has long remained hidden behind closed doors. The island’s first dedicated domestic violence support hub has revealed the true scale of abuse…
Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with yesterday’s Eurovision semifinal when phones lit up with a push-alert that felt oceans away: US police have video footage of the suspect who gunned down 31-year-old Charlie Kirk outside a Turning Point USA rally in Detroit, and the murder weapon has been recovered. Yet in a country where 92…
Minimal tremors on the Malta Stock Exchange feel like a summer breeze in Valletta’s Upper Barrakka Gardens: pleasant, barely noticeable, yet whispering of bigger weather somewhere else. While global headlines scream about tech sell-offs and crypto crashes, the local equity board blinked in near-stillness this week—MSE index up 0.07 %, turnover a modest €240,000, no…
**Watch: Gay Rights Activists Disrupt Rebecca Buttigieg Speech in Valletta** A routine political address turned into an unexpected flashpoint for LGBTQ+ rights yesterday evening, as gay rights activists interrupted Parliamentary Secretary Rebecca Buttigieg’s speech at the Valletta Cultural Hub. The disruption, which lasted approximately three minutes, has ignited fresh debate about Malta’s progress on queer…
**Family Tragedy in Birkirkara Sparks Mental Health Debate After Son Accused of Assaulting Father** A 34-year-old Birkirkara man has been charged with grievously injuring his 67-year-old father in what court officials described as a “violent outburst” that left the elderly man hospitalized with multiple fractures. The incident, which occurred in the family’s traditional Maltese townhouse…
Valletta’s courthouse felt more like a packed bus terminus yesterday morning when 15 homeless men and women—some clutching plastic bags of belongings, others barefoot—were herded before Magistrate Joseph Mifsud in a single, chaotic sitting that lasted just 42 minutes. All faced the same charge: “voluntary homelessness” under a dusty 2017 city-bylaw that criminalises sleeping rough…
**New York marks 9/11 attacks against divided backdrop** As New Yorkers gathered at Ground Zero yesterday to mark 23 years since the 9/11 attacks, the ceremony unfolded against America’s increasingly fractured political landscape – a stark contrast to the unity that briefly bound the nation together in the aftermath of that September morning. From our…
**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…
**Awakened Realities: Anton Sammut and the Soul of Consciousness** In a quiet corner of Valletta, where the limestone walls echo centuries of whispered prayers and revolution, Anton Sammut sits cross-legged on a woven ġbejna mat, eyes closed, breathing in the scent of sea salt and incense. Around him, a small group of Maltese seekers—teachers, artists,…
# 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…
**Sciortino Brothers Plead Guilty to Threatening Magistrate and Police Officers in Shocked Malta** In a case that has sent ripples through Malta’s tight-knit community, the Sciortino brothers this week pleaded guilty to threatening a magistrate and several police officers, bringing to a dramatic close a saga that has dominated local conversations from Valletta’s cafés to…
500 PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS RECEIVED LGBTIQ+ EQUALITY TRAINING LAST YEAR: A QUIET REVOLUTION IN MALTA’S GOVERNMENT OFFICES By Hot Malta Newsroom Valletta – While tourists were photographing the Triton Fountain and debating which pastizzeria does the best ricotta squares, something less Instagrammable but far more transformative was happening inside Malta’s public administration: 500 civil servants—from…
