**Valletta’s Streets to Become Open-Air Counselling Room in First-Ever Youth Mental Health Festival** A kaleidoscope of pop-up art installations, dawn-to-dusk sports sessions and silent disco therapy nights will take over the capital next month as Malta stages its first festival dedicated entirely to young minds. “Well-Being October”, unveiled yesterday by the parliamentary secretariat for youth…
**Watch: Von der Leyen gives her 2025 State of the Union speech – What it means for Malta** As Ursula von der Leyen took to the European Parliament podium on Wednesday morning to deliver her fifth State of the Union address, Maltese eyes were fixed on Brussels with more than casual curiosity. The Commission President’s…
**11-Year Sentence for Ex-Boyfriend’s Rape Sends Shockwaves Through Malta’s Relationship Culture** A 31-year-old Birkirkara man has been jailed for 11 years after being convicted of raping his former partner in her own apartment, a verdict that is rippling through Malta’s tight-knit communities and forcing a national conversation about consent, power and the shadow side of…
**Woman admits misappropriating €15,000, blames drugs as court hears of spiral from painkillers to €100-a-day habit** A 34-year-old mother-of-two from Żabbar broke down in Malta’s Criminal Court on Tuesday as she admitted to siphoning €15,000 from the Sliema travel agency where she worked, telling Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera that a “harmless” prescription for tramadol after…
**Sweden’s Youth-Crime Crackdown Resonates in Malta: Could 14 Be the New 14?** Valletta – While Swedish lawmakers prepare to drop the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14 after a wave of gang shootings, Maltese living-rooms are buzzing with the same uncomfortable question: how young is too young to be held fully accountable? The…
**University Crisis, Maltese Solutions: What ARTE’s Europe-Wide Wake-Up Call Means for Our Islands** The lecture halls of the University of Malta have always felt bigger than their 400-year-old limestone walls. From the spot where Jesuits once schooled Knights’ pages to the glass-and-steel labs now cloning local vines, the campus is where Malta squeezes centuries into…
Prime Minister Robert Abela has extended a surprise invitation to firebrand radio host and self-styled “voice of the common man” Alex Borg for a closed-door meeting at Labour Party headquarters in Ħamrun, sending political tongues wagging across the islands and sparking a thousand WhatsApp voice notes before lunch. The summons, delivered by text message on…
Malta has been told to tear down the legal walls that still hide public information and to finally erase the crime of “sedition” from its statute books, in a hard-hitting new report released by the Commonwealth Secretariat in Valletta yesterday. The 196-page peer-review – the first since Malta joined the club of nations in 1964…
Red Scarves in Strasbourg: How Malta’s Labour MEPs Turned Gaza Solidarity into a Mediterranean Moment By the time European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stepped up to the Strasbourg rostrum on Wednesday morning, the hemicycle was already a sea of crimson. But three seats in particular caught the eye of Maltese photographers: the ones…
EU Chief’s Sanction Threat on Israel: How Gaza Turmoil is Reaching Malta’s Shores By Hot Malta Newsroom Valletta’s Grand Harbour was calm at dawn on Tuesday, but the chatter inside city cafés was anything but. Over steaming cups of Kafè fit-Tazza, patrons swapped reactions to Brussels’ bombshell: EU High Representative Josep Borrell is formally asking…
Valletta cafés fell unusually quiet yesterday evening as televisions tuned to Al Jazeera showed Israeli jets wheeling above Doha’s glittering skyline. Patrons who had come for rabbit stew (fenkata) and mid-week Premier League replays instead watched the first flashes of what Israel terms “precision interdiction” and Qatar labels “a stab to the heart of diplomacy”….
Fixed-line phones gathering dust in Maltese homes as nation goes mobile-only, survey shows By [Author Name] | Hot Malta Walk into any Maltese household on a Sunday and the scene is almost cinematic: steaming plate of timpana on the table, television blaring ONE Radio, nonna fanning herself with the free magazine that came with the…
