Valletta’s morning sun is already bouncing off limestone façades when Claire Busuttil, Head of People at a gaming start-up in St Julian’s, opens her laptop. Instead of sifting through paper CVs, she’s watching an AI dashboard flag which of her 120 employees are most likely to resign in the next six months. The algorithm cross-references…
**Why Maltese companies can’t afford to ignore employee engagement any longer** Walk into any Valletta office at 4.30 p.m. and you’ll hear the same refrain: “Narak ghada, ey?” Laptops snap shut, the lift fills with the scent of Hugo Boss and pastizzi, and by 5 p.m. the city’s wine bars are already humming. It’s a…
**Why HR is the key to organisational transformation** *By Hot Malta Staff Writer* Valletta – Walk into any Maltese SME on Strait Street or a back-office in Birkirkara and you’ll hear the same gripe: “We can’t find people.” Yet walk into another firm down the road and you’ll find burnt-out employees updating their LinkedIn at…
How to build a future-ready organisation – Maltese style By Hot Malta staff Valletta – While the rest of Europe debates “digital transformation” in glass-walled conference centres, Maltese business leaders are hashing it out over ħobż biż-żejt in sunny courtyards. The question on everyone’s lips is the same: how do we build organisations that can…
Porcelain isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you picture Valletta on a humid Friday night, but step into Malta Society of Arts (MSA) this month and you’ll find Nico Conti turning the 17th-century Palazzo de la Salle into a hushed shrine of translucent plates, fractured teacups and Maltese lace shadows fired onto…
Knights, nurses, and now…netizens? The International Academy of St Lazarus—an 800-year-old order that once ran Malta’s leper hospital outside Mdina—has thrown open its velvet-lined doors to “corresponding members” for the first time in its long history, inviting islanders (and anyone with a Maltese connection) to join without buying a title, wearing a cape, or even…
**Community Session on Human Rights in Xewkija: Gozo’s Village Square Becomes Classroom for Democracy** The parish hall behind Xewkija’s rotunda church filled faster than a summer festa firework sells out on Sunday. Pensioners arrived leaning on carved walking sticks, teenagers clutched mobile phones like rosaries, and a baker still dusted with flour slipped in at…
**Cycle of Hope: LifeCycle Challenge Sponsors Kidney Patients on Sacred Journey to Lourdes** In a powerful display of Maltese solidarity, the annual LifeCycle Challenge has expanded its mission beyond raising funds for renal research to directly sponsoring kidney patients on their pilgrimage to Lourdes, transforming what was once an impossible dream into reality for Malta’s…
‘APS is no longer a secondary option’: How Malta’s oldest bank reclaimed centre stage Valletta’s Republic Street hums with the familiar rhythms of cappuccino steam and shop-door bells, but step inside the APS Centre and the soundtrack changes. Young couples huddle over mortgage spreadsheets on tablets, retirees tap contactless to top-up their BOV-powered Apple Pay,…
The Convenience Shop rebrands as MyConvenience and MySupermarket – a very Maltese evolution Sliema’s Tower Road woke up yesterday to a splash of neon green where the familiar red-and-white “The Convenience Shop” sign had stood for 17 years. By the time the 7 a.m. church bells rang, staff were already peeling off old vinyl and…
**TargetMI: Behind the Scenes of Malta’s Life-Saving Heart Attack Research** In a nondescript laboratory tucked within the University of Malta’s biomedical complex, Dr. Stephanie Bezzina adjusts her microscope with the precision of someone who knows that every second counts. The molecular biologist isn’t just conducting routine research – she’s part of TargetMI, a groundbreaking Maltese…
Sunday morning in Żejtun, and the bronze-skinned fisherman who sells lampuki at the parish steps is not just “the guy with the fish”. To 82-year-old Marija, who still pins her lace pattern to the balcony, he is Ġorġ—“Tal-Ajkla’s boy who lost his father at sea”. The Gospel read moments earlier, Luke’s Emmaus story, is still…
