**Engineers must be central to Vision 2050, Chamber warns amid talent crisis** Malta’s ambitious Vision 2050 strategy risks stalling before it even leaves the drawing board unless the island urgently reverses its growing shortage of engineers, the Malta Chamber of Commerce has warned. In a stark briefing delivered to MPs last week, the Chamber painted…
It started as a whisper in the coffee shops of Valletta – “Il-borża qed titla’!” – and by the time the church bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral struck noon on Friday, the Malta Stock Exchange’s Equity Price Index had chalked up its fourth straight session of gains, adding 1.34 % and closing at 3,748.41 points….
Rotor blades sliced the early-morning haze above Valletta’s Grand Harbour yesterday as Malta’s only home-grown helicopter operator, IslandRotors, unveiled plans to double its fleet and launch the islands’ first scheduled ‘hop-on’ aerial shuttle. Locals sipping kafè fit-tazza at the Upper Barrakka Gardens watched two sleek H145s swoop in formation over the Saluting Battery, a manoeuvre…
**Carlo Gavazzi Workers Secure Future as UHM Clinches Landmark Deal** In a decisive turn of events that has rippled across Malta’s tight-knit manufacturing community, employees at Carlo Gavazzi’s local operations have breathed a collective sigh of relief after the Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin (UHM) sealed a financial agreement that safeguards jobs, wages, and long-standing benefits. The…
Valletta’s iGaming corridors have a new name on everyone’s lips: FIRST.com. The UK-licensed sportsbook, which soft-launched in February and went full-throttle for the Champions League final, is already being sized up by St Julian’s analysts as the fastest British brand to hit seven-figure active users since the 2020 lockdown boom. But what has Malta buzzing…
**What’s next for MedTech? Malta’s tiny island thinks big** Strolling down Valletta’s Republic Street on a humid July evening, it’s easy to forget that 500 metres away, inside a deceptively quiet 17th-century palazzo, a team of engineers is 3-D-printing titanium jawbones that will be flown to North African hospitals before sunrise. The contrast—baroque balconies overhead,…
Move Malta’s Airport? Geologists Float an Offshore Island Plan That Could Redraw the Map Valletta – For a nation whose airport runway ends metres from the sea, the idea of shifting the whole operation to a man-made island sounds like science-fiction. Yet a panel of local and Italian geologists told Parliament’s Environment Committee yesterday that…
# Malta’s Place in a Turbulent World: How Global Shocks Ripple Through Our Tiny Island Valletta’s morning traffic still hums along Republic Street, café terraces are full of tourists sipping €3 cappuccinos, and the 8 a.m. Gozo Channel ferry leaves Ċirkewwa on the dot. From a distance, Malta looks unchanged. Yet behind the pastel façades,…
**MFSA Review Finds Gaps in Payment Accounts Offered by Financial Institutions** In a small island nation where cash is still king at village festas and where your local barber greets you by name, the way we pay for things carries more cultural weight than most tourists realise. That’s why the Malta Financial Services Authority’s latest…
Minimal tremors on the Malta Stock Exchange feel like a summer breeze in Valletta’s Upper Barrakka Gardens: pleasant, barely noticeable, yet whispering of bigger weather somewhere else. While global headlines scream about tech sell-offs and crypto crashes, the local equity board blinked in near-stillness this week—MSE index up 0.07 %, turnover a modest €240,000, no…
Baltic and Nordic visitors have long favoured Malta as a winter-sun study destination and, increasingly, as a remote-work base. Walk down Sliema’s Tower Road on any January afternoon and you’ll hear as much Estonian, Finnish and Swedish as Maltese or English. Yet the same tech-savvy guests who happily open Revolut accounts and Bolt food orders…
**From Knights’ Ledger to Neural Networks: How Artificial Intelligence is Quietly Re-wiring Malta’s Financial DNA** Walk past the limestone façade of the Malta Stock Exchange on any given Tuesday and you’ll still see brokers in pastel shirts sipping espresso, but behind the baroque balconies a silent algorithm may have just executed a €5 million bond…
