Kyiv’s Dawn Raid Resonates in Malta’s Morning Cafés By [Hot Malta Staff] | 7-min read Valletta’s Grand Harbour was still yawning in amber light when push-notifications began to ripple across phones at outdoor tables: four dead, dozens wounded, Kyiv again under a “kamikaze” sky. By the time the first cappuccino foam settled, Maltese commuters had…
Valletta’s 17th-century palazzo corridors are humming with a very 21st-century sound: the click-clack of laptops closing on yet another micro-credential. From the gaming studios of St Julian’s to the village band clubs of Żejtun, Maltese workers are quietly enrolling in evening boot-camps, Saturday AI labs and TikTok-length language sprints. The island that once exported limestone…
The human connection in an AI-driven world: How Malta is keeping hearts wired while algorithms rise Valletta’s Republic Street at 7:30 a.m. still smells of kafe u ħobż biż-żejt, but if you glance at the outdoor tables, you’ll spot as many phone screens as faces. A new generation of Maltese baristas are pulling shots while…
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…
In pictures: Għar id-Dud Chalet, 1926 – when Sliema’s seaside swagger was born The year is 1926. Malta is still three decades away from independence, cars are a novelty on the island’s dusty roads, and King George V’s profile graces every farthing in your pocket. Yet along Sliema’s once-sleepy shoreline something daring has just opened:…
**Starmer’s Labour Meltdown: What Malta Can Learn as UK’s Red Wall Crumbles** *By Hot Malta Staff* Sliema’s pubs were still serving past midnight when the BBC’s exit poll flashed across screens: Labour bleeding seats, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK surging, and Sir Keir Starmer’s path to Downing Street narrowing to a knife-edge. For the Maltese traders…
**Curiosities: Why green for the greenscreen?** Walk past any film set in Malta these days and you’ll spot it – that unmistakable neon green fabric fluttering in the Mediterranean breeze. From the Valletta waterfront to the limestone quarries of Mellieħa, Malta’s booming film industry has painted the island in shades of emerald. But why green?…
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…
