Trump’s Paracetamol Claim Sparks Concern Among Pregnant Women in Malta By Hot Malta Staff Valletta – It started with a single sentence on a Florida stage: “They even want you to take a paracetamol when you’re pregnant—nobody knows what that does to the baby.” Within minutes, the clip was racing through Maltese Facebook groups, WhatsApp…
**Vittoriosa Murder: Victim Identified Shooter as He Lay Bleeding, Shocking Malta’s Historic City** The quiet cobblestone streets of Vittoriosa, one of Malta’s iconic Three Cities, were shattered by violence last night as a brutal murder unfolded in the shadow of centuries-old fortifications. In a chilling twist that has sent shockwaves through the tight-knit community, the…
**Valletta Court Slaps Record €530,000 Fine on Former Gaming Executive in Dazzling Fraud Case** A 38-year-old Sliema woman has been ordered to cough up more than half a million euros to her former employer after a Valletta court found she had siphoned company funds into personal crypto wallets and luxury property investments in what magistrate…
**Who recognises the State of Palestine, who doesn’t, and why does it matter?** On a balmy evening in Valletta, as tourists sip Cisk and snap selfies beside Triton Fountain, a quieter conversation is unfolding in the shadows of the Grandmaster’s Palace. Inside a small book-lined office, three Maltese activists are folding A4 sheets into envelopes…
Watch: Objectors in uproar over Xlendi high-rise case deferral ================================================================ **“We’re being strung along while the valley dies,”** one Gozitan pensioner shouted from the back of the chambers on Thursday afternoon, seconds after the Planning Authority (PA) board voted to defer its decision on the 12-storey Xlendi hotel tower for a third time. Mobile phones…
**‘Is K helping?’: The WhatsApp that still echoes in every Maltese household** By now the screenshot is burned into the national retina: 4:59 a.m., 20 November 2019, Keith Schembri’s personal assistant sends a three-word ping to Yorgen Fenech—“Is K helping?”—ninety-three minutes before the Tumas magnate is dramatically intercepted on his yacht en-route to freedom. In…
Buskett, the island’s only semi-natural woodland, has always been where Maltese families escape the limestone glare—picnics under holm-oak shade, children chasing lizards, grandparents arguing over caper-pickle recipes. Yesterday, that gentle script was torn by barking and screams. A 62-year-old Siggiewi woman is recovering from bite wounds to her thigh and hand after two un-leashed Rottweilers…
Valletta’s iconic Grand Harbour will shimmer a little brighter this September as the historic Valletta Waterfront transforms into a harvest-hued playground for the inaugural Autumnfest, a three-day celebration promising to re-ignite the capital’s post-summer spirit. From 15-17 September the usually serene cruise-liner quay will burst with pop-up kitchens, folk troupes, street artists and local vintners,…
Valletta goldsmith Luke* still keeps the WhatsApp voice-note on his phone: a gravelly voice demanding €20,000 “for protection” and warning that his teenage daughter walks home past the old Opera House every afternoon. The message arrived on 12 August 2022, two weeks after he had refused to sell a €9,000 diamond cluster to a visitor…
As the last festa fireworks fade over Floriana and the August sea begins to cool, Maltese parents swap bucket-and-spade emojis for pencil-and-ruler ones. But beneath the flurry of back-to-school WhatsApp groups—bus routes, book lists, “Ħu l-uniformi tal-Ġunior?”—lurks a quieter current: children’s anxiety. This year, with inflation nudging €7 for a ħobż biż-żejt and classrooms still…
Knights College joins EURASHE: Maltese educators step onto the European stage By Hot Malta Staff Sliema’s seafront was still blinking itself awake last Monday when Knights College Malta fired off the announcement that has since ricocheted through every staff-room from Valletta to Victoria: the island’s youngest degree-granting institution has been accepted as full member of…
Microsoft’s decision to pull the plug on Windows 10 security updates in October 2025 has landed like a late-summer sirocco on the Maltese islands: hot, dusty, and impossible to ignore. From the family-run accounting office in Birkirkara to the gaming cafés of Paceville, an estimated 78 % of Malta’s 550 000 active PCs still run…
