Valletta cinephiles woke this week to news that the world’s oldest film festival, Venice, had just premiered a work that hits closer to home than any Mediterranean war drama in recent memory. “No Other Land”, an unprecedented co-production by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, opened the Orizzonti Extra sidebar to a ten-minute standing ovation—then left Maltese…
Google Dodges Chrome Break-Up: What a US Judge’s Ruling Means for Malta’s €1.5 Billion Digital Bet By Luke Caruana | Hot Malta Valletta’s cafés were buzzing yesterday with more than just talk of festa fireworks and summer rents. Entrepreneurs, lawyers and start-up founders huddled over cortados, dissecting a decision handed down 8,000 kilometres away in…
Comedy on Trial: How a British Joke Arrest Echoes Malta’s Own Battle for Satire By Hot Malta Newsroom A British comedy writer’s arrest for sharing a meme about the UK’s new Royal Navy recruits has ricocheted across Valletta’s café terraces and Gozitan village squares, igniting uneasy memories of Malta’s own brushes with censorship. Graham Linehan—the…
Domestic abuser back in court, charged with threatening mother of his children ================================================================================ A 38-year-old man from Żabbar, already convicted in 2021 for grievous bodily harm against his former partner, was hauled back before Magistrate Marse-Ann Farrugia on Wednesday after allegedly breaching a protection order just metres from the primary school their two children attend….
Couple trade accusations in Gozo holiday row that left both slightly injured By Hot Malta Newsroom Victoria, Gozo – What should have been a tranquil mid-week escape to Gozo’s honey-coloured villages turned into a very public spat on Wednesday afternoon, when a British-Maltese couple’s simmering tensions boiled over in front of the Citadel’s panoramic café…
A New Chapter for Malta’s Financial Guardians: MFSA Launches First-Ever “Journal of Financial Supervisors Academy” Valletta’s Grand Harbour shimmered under a late-spring sun this week as the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) unveiled Volume I of the Journal of Financial Supervisors Academy – a sleek, bilingual tome that locals are already calling “the little red…
Watch: Robert Abela eyes bringing SiGMA’s largest event back to Malta ——————————————————————– Prime Minister Robert Abela has set his sights on reclaiming one of the island’s most lucrative international gatherings, telling delegates at the SiGMA Asia summit in Manila that “Malta is ready to welcome the world’s biggest SiGMA show home again.” The comment, captured…
Sant’Antnin car park, park-and-ride set to be completed by mid-2026 By Hot Malta • 14 May 2024 The dusty expanse behind the old Sant’Antnin waste-to-energy plant in Marsascala is about to swap the clang of bulldozers for the soft thud of car doors. Transport Malta has confirmed that the long-heralded park-and-ride facility will open its…
“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…
