# MSE Wrap-Up: September Rally Fizzles as Maltese Investors Eye Year-End Dividends **Valletta** – The Malta Stock Exchange closed the week ended 26 September 2025 with the MSE Equity Total Return Index up 0.41 % at 10,047.32 – a whisper-thin gain that still felt like a small victory after August’s turbulence. Turnover totalled €4.9 million…
**Suspended Sentences Spark Debate After Brutal Workplace Assault in Malta** A Maltese court has handed down suspended sentences to three men who grievously injured their work colleague, sparking intense debate across the Mediterranean island nation about workplace violence, justice, and the effectiveness of the country’s legal system. The incident, which occurred at a construction site…
Malta-flagged tanker stuck off Sicily becomes lightning-rod for island’s role in global energy chess game By Julianne Cassar, Hot Malta investigative correspondent The pastel-painted quays of Valletta’s Grand Harbour were unusually tense this week as news broke that the “Eastern Eagle”, a 250-metre crude-oil tanker flying the Maltese flag, has been barred from transiting the…
# Netanyahu’s UN Walkout Echoes in Valletta: Maltese Diplomats Join Global Rebuke, Sparking Debate in a Nation That Knows Occupation First-Hand Valletta’s Grand Harbour was unusually quiet yesterday afternoon, but inside cafés along Strait Street the espresso machines hissed louder than the usual political gossip. The reason? Mobile phones buzzed with push alerts that Israeli…
EU weighs new €140 billion Ukraine loan using Russian assets – what it means for Malta Valletta’s Grand Harbour ferries were still unloading Monday morning commuters when news broke that Brussels is exploring a €140 billion loan to Kyiv, collateralised by frozen Russian central-bank assets. In cafés along the Valletta waterfront the reaction was instant:…
Prime Minister Robert Abela’s call for the European Union to maintain “the strongest possible pressure” on the Russian economy has struck a chord across Malta, from the boardrooms of Valletta’s financial-services firms to the kitchen tables of families still hosting Ukrainian refugees who fled Russian bombs in 2022. Speaking in Brussels on Thursday after an…
PN Puts ‘Children First’: €8,500 Sweetener Could Reverse Malta’s Shrinking Playgrounds By Hot Malta Newsroom Sliema mum-of-three Rebecca Camilleri burst out laughing when she heard the Nationalist Party’s latest pledge. “€8,500 a year? That’s basically my entire part-time salary,” she said, pushing a double-stroller along the Strand on Tuesday morning. “If Bernard Grech can deliver…
Trident Estates, the company that turned a derelict 18th-century hospital in Sliema into Malta’s most Instagrammed seafront façade, has posted a 12 % jump in half-year profit to €6.7 million – a figure that matters far beyond the balance sheet of a single developer. In a country where every square metre of limestone seems to…
University students huddled over laptops outside Valletta’s campus canteen are used to swapping memes, lecture notes and relationship gossip on Discord and WhatsApp. This week, however, the chat among the usual espressos and pastizzi crumbs has turned unusually political: a home-grown student coalition has launched Malta’s first national petition against the EU’s proposed “Chat Control”…
ITS Starts Academic Year with Record Number of Students: Malta’s Creative Powerhouse Hits New Heights The Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) threw open its doors this week to the largest student body in its 35-year history, cementing its role as the beating heart of Malta’s hospitality scene. With 1,420 fresh faces milling through the Qormi…
**Tony Blair Could Lead Gaza Transitional Authority – What Malta Thinks** Valletta’s cafés are buzzing again, but this time it isn’t about Eurovision odds or the latest power-cut schedule. Over tiny glasses of Kinnie and ricotta-filled pastizzi, Maltese politicos, taxi drivers and TikTok activists are all asking the same question: could Tony Blair really be…
Prime Minister Robert Abela’s declaration that Malta considers the return of Crimea and all occupied Ukrainian territory “non-negotiable” has rippled through Valletta’s cafés, university corridors and parish halls, placing the island’s foreign-policy stance at the centre of dinner-table talk far beyond the usual diplomatic circles. Speaking to the UN Security Council via video-link on Tuesday…
