**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…
Malta-flagged bicycles will soon be gliding through Sicilian olive groves and coastal hamlets as 34-year-old Sliema sports therapist Daniel Camilleri embarks on a solitary 1,000-kilometre loop of the neighbouring island, every pedal stroke dedicated to the father who taught him to ride. “Dad was the one who removed my stabilisers in Dingli, ran behind me…
“Pastizzi may be the death of us” – the WhatsApp voice note that ricocheted through Maltese group chats last week wasn’t warning about a new cholesterol study. It was the visceral reaction of a Marsa dockworker who had just watched the price of his two-bite breakfast jump from 40 to 60 cents. Within hours the…
**Poolside brawl injuries did not cause man’s death, medical expert tells court** A medical expert has testified that injuries sustained during a poolside brawl at a popular St Julian’s hotel did not cause the death of a 48-year-old man, shedding new light on a case that has gripped Malta’s summer party scene. The ruling, delivered…
Watch live: Von der Leyen gives her 2025 State of the Union speech – why every Maltese living-room is tuned in tonight By 8 p.m. the village band clubs have gone quiet, the festa fireworks are on pause, and even the usually boisterous ħobż-bi-żejt debate at the corner kazin has been suspended. Instead, televisions from…
