**Malta’s Animal Lovers Rally as Japanese Donors Distance Themselves from ‘Cat Killer’** Valletta – When news broke last week that a 30-year-old Japanese tourist had been caught on CCTV drowning a stray cat inside a plastic bag at St Julian’s Spinola Bay, the clip went viral across both islands within hours. But while Magistrate Monica…
**Gozo’s Azure Window may be gone, but Malta is about to flex its own global muscle.** Former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall— the 2017 champion who once dead-lifted 500 kg and can flip a Mini Cooper like a pancake— has chosen the Maltese Islands as the backdrop for his newest sports-entertainment series, tentatively titled *Hall…
Valletta’s courtroom number four was packed tighter than a festa pyrotechnics van yesterday when magistrate Rachel Montebello threw out freshly-arrived evidence from the FBI, ruling that the 2 000-page digital dossier landed too late to be fairly examined by 24-year-old Daniel Meli and his three co-accused. The decision is the latest twist in Malta’s first-ever…
**Strongman Eddie Hall Brings Blockbuster Sports Entertainment Series to Malta, Putting Maltese Islands on Global Fitness Map** The Maltese islands are about to flex their muscles on the international stage as former World’s Strongest Man Eddie Hall announces his latest sports entertainment series will be filmed entirely in Malta. The blockbuster production, featuring the charismatic…
Financial analysis: Does Prospects have a future? By 8 a.m. on a humid July morning, the queue outside Prospects charity shop in Ħamrun already snakes past the old kiosks selling pastizzi and cheap phone cards. Retired seamstresses, Syrian families and Maltese pensioners clutching plastic bags of last season’s clothes, waiting for the roller shutter to…
**Tragedy Across the Waves: Malta Reacts to the Killing of Charlie Kirk** Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso steam when push-notifications lit up phones across the archipelago: Charlie Kirk, the 25-year-old British-Maltese influencer and part-time Sliema resident, had been found shot dead outside a Manchester recording studio shortly after midnight. Within minutes #CharlieKirk…
A conversation about ‘Fallen Angels’ – and why Valletta is talking about it over pastizzi By Sarah Galea, Hot Malta contributor “Mela, have you seen the angels?” The question ricochets across Republic Street every morning this week, whispered between kiosk owners, debated by pensioners on the City Gate benches, and posted on TikTok by teens…
Court orders education authorities to enrol two children in school ================================================================= **In a landmark ruling that reverberated through Malta’s tight-knit communities, a judge has ordered the Director of Education to immediately enrol two primary-aged siblings in their neighbourhood Church school after months of bureaucratic limbo.** The children, aged six and eight, had been left without…
**Public invited to shape Malta’s future in ENVISION2050 consultation** Maltese citizens are being handed the microphone to help script the next chapter of the islands’ story. ENVISION2050, the national consultation launched last week by the Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Enterprise, is inviting everyone—from Gozitan farmers to Sliema start-ups—to paint a collective picture of…
**Manhunt Underway After US Right-Wing Influencer’s Killing Sends Shockwaves to Maltese Shores** The Mediterranean morning that usually greets Valletta’s Grand Harbour with fishing boats and cruise liners was pierced by push notifications this week: American conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk, 30, had been shot dead outside a Turning Point USA rally in Phoenix, Arizona, and the…
**Trump Blasts ‘Radical Left’ After Killing of Right-Wing Influencer Charlie Kirk: Malta Watches America’s Culture War Spiral** Valletta – While Maltese families were still digesting Sunday’s *kannoli* and arguing over whether the *festa* fireworks were louder this year, phones pinged with a push-alert that felt a continent away: right-wing US firebrand Charlie Kirk, 31, had…
Horses of Salt and Wind: How Malta’s Coastline Became an Open-air Sculpture Stable By Hot Malta staff On a blustery March evening, the stretch of golden limestone between Għajn Tuffieħa and Ġnejna Bay looks less like a beach and more like a theatre. Waves slap the cliffs, the scent of thyme hangs in the salt…
