Grants for walking commuters and business tax breaks among SME budget proposals —————————————————————————– Valletta’s morning rush hour is no longer just a blur of honking horns and exhaust fumes. As the 2025 Budget Bill edges closer to debate, a quietly revolutionary clause is doing the rounds in the capital’s cafés: up-front grants of up to…
How to stop Malta’s ride-hailing sector from potential money laundering risks By Hot Malta | 6 min read On any given Friday evening, the streets of Sliema and St Julian’s throb with a familiar rhythm: cars with green Uber and Bolt stickers jostle with dusty white taxis whose drivers still quote “€20 to Valletta” like…
# Marsa Stock Exchange Ends Summer on a High Note as Local Firms Shine The Marsa Stock Exchange wrapped up its final week before the village festa season with a flourish, posting its strongest September performance in five years as Maltese investors returned from their August siestas with pockets full of Luzzu-shaped gelato change and…
Fitch Retains Malta’s A+ Rating: Strong Economy, but Governance Shadows Still Linger Over the Rock Valletta’s honey-coloured bastions were bathed in early-summer sunshine yesterday as credit-rating agency Fitch handed Malta its annual report card—and once again stamped an A+ on the little archipelago. The decision keeps the country among the top-tier borrowers of the EU,…
MedservRegis rises to an eight-month high – and the whole island feels the lift By Hot Malta staff The bell that closes the Malta Stock Exchange on Castille Place had barely stopped ringing yesterday when word spread through Valletta’s cafés: MedservRegis, the Maltese oil-services group born from a 2020 merger, had closed at €0.89 –…
UK DEPUTY PM ANGELA RAYNER QUITS – WHAT IT MEANS FOR MALTA’S PROPERTY-DRIVEN ECONOMY Valletta woke up to news that felt closer to home than usual this morning. Angela Rayner, Britain’s charismatic Deputy Prime Minister, resigned overnight after weeks of scrutiny over a disputed capital-gains tax bill on the sale of her former council house….
Freeport terminal expansion will host ships larger than four football pitches – and Marsaxlokk village is watching nervously By the time the ferry from Ħaż-Żabbar docks at Marsaxlokk, the horizon over Delimara is already a moving wall of steel. The latest container giants – each longer than four football pitches laid end-to-end – glide past…
The Future Starts Tomorrow — and It Begins in a Sliema Side-Street By 11 p.m. tonight, the last ferry from Valletta will glide beneath the orange halo of the Grand Harbour cranes, their lights blinking like Morse code to anyone still awake on the bastions. Most passengers will scroll through their phones, half-watching Netflix, half-listening…
**Ian Borg Pushes for American Airline Deal to Boost Malta-US Ties** Foreign Minister Ian Borg has embarked on a diplomatic offensive to secure direct flights between Malta and the United States, a move that could reshape the islands’ transatlantic connections and open new doors for Maltese businesses, students, and families divided by oceans. Borg’s recent…
MSE Equity Price Index Snaps 5-Day Losing Streak: Sliema Traders Trade Tension for Pastizzi Cheers By 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, the usually hushed trading floor of the Malta Stock Exchange in Castille Square looked more like a village festa. Screens flickered green, phones rang like church bells, and someone had even smuggled in a tray…
From the honey-coloured streets of Valletta to the ever-expanding skyline of St Julian’s, Malta has always been a place where old stone and fresh concrete jostle for space. Yet in the past decade the building boom has left more than just cranes on the horizon; it has littered the islands with half-finished shells—ghosts of apartments,…
Malta sees biggest improvement in foreign investment ranking: A Mediterranean triumph that’s already reshaping village life Valletta – The latest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index, released this week by global consultancy Kearney, has delivered the sweetest of surprises to our sun-splattered archipelago: Malta leapt twelve places to 24th out of 25 ranked economies—the single…
