“Exploitation of migrants is the rule, not the exception” – JRS report lays bare Malta’s open secret By the time the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) launched its 42-page dossier at the Ħamrun parish hall last night, the room was already thick with stories: a Bangladeshi kitchen-hand who hasn’t seen a payslip in 18 months, a…
Lija’s famous citrus-scented breeze may soon carry the clang of scaffolding rather than the perfume of orange blossom if a new six-storey apartment block gets the green light on the edge of the village’s last surviving swathe of agricultural land. ADPD (Alternattiva Demokratika – Partit Demokratiku) has sounded the alarm, warning that the proposed development…
Rare Egyptian Vulture Bids Malta Goodbye After Three Days of Sky-High Drama By Hot Malta Newsroom • 14 June 2024 The limestone bastions of Valletta were still catching the first gold of dawn when BirdLife Malta’s conservation team let out a collective cheer: the satellite dot representing “EV-214” – a two-year-old Egyptian Vulture affectionately nicknamed…
**Caught in the Act: Drunk Couple’s X-Rated Ramp Romp at Valletta Police HQ** In a scene that would make even the most seasoned Valletta night-watchman blush, a couple was caught in flagrante delicto on the very ramp leading into Malta’s central police station in the early hours of Sunday morning. The pair, reportedly intoxicated and…
# Graffitti-led coalition launches crowdfund to slam brakes on Żabbar-Kalkara road to Smart City A feisty alliance of residents, cyclists, artists and heritage NGOs has taken to the internet to crowdfund a David-vs-Goliath legal battle against the proposed Żabbar-Kalkara arterial road that would slice through centuries-old farmland and open a four-lane gateway to Smart City….
ChatGPT to Get Parental Controls After Teen’s Death – What Malta Needs to Know Valletta, Malta – The news that OpenAI will roll out stricter parental controls for ChatGPT, following the suicide of a 14-year-old in Florida, has landed on our islands with the force of a summer sirocco. In a nation where 92 %…
Pete Buttigieg: ‘I remember buying The Times and a ħobża for dad’ – a Maltese son’s journey to the White House By Martina Vella | Hot Malta VALLETTA – When United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told a Washington audience last week that “I remember buying The Times and a ħobża for dad,” Maltese…
Putin Meets Kim: From Valletta Balconies to Vladivostok – What the Russia-North Korea Pact Means for Malta By a Hot Malta correspondent | Valletta On a balmy Mediterranean evening, while elderly men argued over ċisk and ħobż biż-żejt in Strait Street and tourists queued for gelato beneath the honey-coloured bastions, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un…
Swieqi residents have finally caught the ear of the nation’s highest watchdog. Ombudsman Joseph A. Bartolo announced today that his office will open a formal investigation into complaints that overtourism is “eroding the very fabric” of this once-quiet micro-municipality perched above St Julian’s. The move comes after a petition signed by 412 households—roughly one in…
Alex Agius Saliba Asks EU to Probe Austrian Gaming Judgments: A Red-and-White Warning Flag for Malta’s Digital Crown Jewel Malta woke up this week to the sound of its most prominent MEP banging on the doors of Brussels. Alex Agius Saliba, Labour’s firebrand in the European Parliament, has formally requested an EU-wide investigation into recent…
China’s Searing Summer Sends Ripples to Malta’s Shores by Maria Vella, Hot Malta correspondent Valletta – While the Grand Harbour’s limestone walls glow calmly under a 31 °C September breeze, meteorologists in Beijing have just confirmed what many suspected: China has endured its hottest summer since records began in 1951. Average temperatures from June to…
Have You Seen This Man? How One Missing-Person Poster Became a National Mirror By now the black-and-white flyer is everywhere: taped to bus shelters in Valletta, wedged under windscreen wipers outside the Gozo ferry, wedged between pastizzi trays at the Naxxar band club. “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?” the headline demands in bold block letters….
