**Nine Months Behind Bars for Umbrella-Wielding Attacker Who Ambushed PA Officers** A Marsa man who turned a humble Maltese umbrella into a weapon against two Planning Authority enforcement officers has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment, in a case that has sent ripples through Malta’s tight-knit community of building-permit enforcers and reignited debate over the…
**PN MP Sounds Alarm Over Deportation of Long-Time Ethiopian Residents After 15-18 Years in Malta** In a case that has sent shockwaves through Malta’s tight-knit migrant communities, Nationalist Party MP and home affairs spokesperson Beppe Fenech Adami has condemned the deportation of three Ethiopian nationals who had lived, worked, and built lives in Malta for…
# Artist dangles 12 metres above Marsa traffic to turn ‘ugly’ wall into vertical picnic Marsa’s newest lunch spot is strictly BYO-basket, requires a harness and sits a dizzying four storeys above Triq Aldo Moro. On Saturday afternoon, passers-by rubbed their eyes as local artist and certified climber Becky Warrington unfolded a chequered blanket, produced…
**Three Irregular Migrants Deported from Malta, Ministry Says** In the early hours of Tuesday morning, three irregular migrants were escorted onto a military-chartered aircraft at Malta International Airport, marking the island’s first deportation of 2024. The Ministry for Home Affairs, Security, Reforms & Equality confirmed the removal in a two-line statement that gave no detail…
# Big Tom finally finds his mojo: How Malta’s most stubborn donkey became the island’s unlikeliest celebrity **By [Hot Malta Staff] | Tuesday, 11 June 2025** Marsa’s Sunday market used to be famous for two things: knock-off Ray-Bans and the unmistakable sound of Big Tom’s theatrical braying. For seven years the oversized donkey—part tourist photo-prop,…
Two Men Seriously Injured in Separate Traffic Accidents, Re-igniting Malta’s Road-Safety Debate by Hot Malta Newsroom Malta’s narrow limestone arteries turned treacherous again this week when two men—one a 27-year-old courier from Żabbar, the other a 63-year-old grandfather on his way to the Valletta market—were left fighting for their lives in separate crashes only seven…
**Man Seriously Injured After Crashing Into Pole in Early Morning Marsa Incident** A 34-year-old man from Żabbar is fighting for his life after his vehicle collided with a utility pole on the Marsa-Ħamrun bypass in the early hours of Tuesday morning, marking yet another serious traffic incident on one of Malta’s most notorious stretches of…
‘All hell broke loose’: Marsa resident recounts crash that damaged his home By Hot Malta Staff | 09 June 2025, 07:30 CEST MARSALFORN LANE, MALTA – At 02:17 last Sunday, Joseph “Ġoxx” Micallef was drifting off to the metallic hum of late-night drag-racers on Triq il-Marsa when the unmistakable crunch of twisting steel replaced the…
**Watch: The moment car crashes into Marsa building** In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the usually quiet streets of Marsa were jolted awake by a thunderous crash that would soon become the talk of the town. A speeding vehicle lost control on Triq il-Marsa, slamming directly into the façade of a historic townhouse near…
Affordable housing scheme ‘represents hope’ – YMCA ————————————————— By Luke Zahra | Hot Malta On the narrow, sun-baked streets of Marsa’s Dock One estate, where drying laundry flaps from every balcony and children chase footballs across cracked pavements, a modest block of flats is about to become the unlikely stage for Malta’s newest social experiment….
“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…
