Maltese NGOs Rally Solidarity as Rights Group Reports 20 Missing After Deadly Indonesia Protests By Lara Pace, Valletta As the last ferry from Gozo glided into Ċirkewwa on Monday evening, mobile phones across Malta lit up with grim headlines: at least 20 Indonesian students and labour activists have vanished following violent protests in Jakarta. The…
Science by sea: new luzzu route connects Sliema and Valletta to Esplora By Hot Malta Correspondent At 8:30 on a brisk April morning, the first passengers clambered onto a freshly painted luzzu moored below the Sliema Ferries kiosk. Instead of the usual jaunt to Comino, the boat’s bright red, blue and yellow bow pointed south-east,…
Trump Waves Off Health Rumours as “Fake News” – How a Maltese Twitter Storm Turned into Café Chatter Overnight By Luke Briffa | Hot Malta VALLETTA – “President Trump is 78, eats like a pastizz addict and still insists he’s ‘healthier than ever’,” joked Carmel Zahra over a mid-morning espresso at Caffé Cordina. The 67-year-old…
Woman jailed after admitting to stealing €250 in tips from Mellieħa kiosk The quiet seaside village of Mellieħa woke up yesterday to the kind of headline that feels almost surreal in a place where shop doors still stay open and neighbours still greet each other by name. A 34-year-old local woman has been handed a…
Malta crowned Ultimate Pool world team shootout champions By Hot Malta Newsroom The clack of cue on resin echoed like church bells across Bugibba last night as Malta’s national pool squad lifted the Ultimate Pool World Team Shootout trophy in front of a roaring, flag-waving crowd at the Dolmen Hotel. In a nail-biting finale that…
Malta Tops EU List for Pollution Concerns in Households – and the Gap is Eye-Watering Walk down any street in Sliema after 7 p.m. and the smell hits you first: a cocktail of frying oil, cheap incense and, more often than you’d like, the sharp tang of diesel generators humming in garages. According to the…
Persistent threats to human rights defenders in Malta flagged in new report by Hot Malta Newsroom The narrow backstreets of Valletta may look postcard-perfect at dusk, but for many Maltese activists the golden limestone walls can feel more like a maze of watchful eyes than a UNESCO backdrop. A new briefing published today by the…
Man involved in Tarxien garage fight granted bail Tarxien, Wednesday – The quiet cul-de-sac off Triq il-Bahar in Tarxien was buzzing again this afternoon after Magistrate Marse-Ann Farrugia granted bail to 42-year-old Kevin “Kev” Spiteri, the man at the centre of a fist-fight that turned a sleepy village garage into a Saturday-night boxing ring. Spiteri,…
Fuelling sexism: AI ‘bikini interview’ videos flood internet – and Maltese creators are cashing in By Maria Grech, Hot Malta Scroll through TikTok or Instagram Reels at 11 p.m. on any weekday in Sliema and you’ll probably see it: a bronzed, bikini-clad “influencer” reclining on a luzzu-red towel at St Peter’s Pool, nodding earnestly while…
Australia Vows to Slap Down Deepfake Nudes and Digital Stalkers – What Malta Can Learn From the Crackdown By Maria Pace, Valletta MELBOURNE might be 15,000 kilometres away, but when Australia’s federal government announced sweeping new laws this week to criminalise AI-generated “deepfake” nudes and online stalking, the ripple was felt almost immediately in Maltese…
**Fact-check: Adrian Delia’s 800,000 population claim is inaccurate – and why the real number matters for every Maltese family** At a Tuesday evening political rally in Birkirkara, Opposition leader Adrian Delia warned an animated crowd that “Malta is already bursting at the seams with 800,000 people”. The line drew loud applause, but it also raised…
Festa Fireworks and Fixed Deposits: How Money Markets Shaped Malta’s Final August Weekend Valletta’s Grand Harbour may have crackled with the last major festa petard of summer 2025, but inside the newly air-conditioned Malta Stock Exchange boardroom the loudest bang came from Governor Edward Scicluna’s one-line statement on Thursday morning: “The European Central Bank will…
