Robbie Williams entertains Malta all over again By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s Grand Harbour shimmered like a disco ball on Friday night, and it wasn’t just the June humidity. Thirty-thousand Maltese voices—spanning nannas who still own the 1997 cassette of “Angels” to seven-year-olds wearing LED rabbit ears—belted every word back at Robbie Williams as he…
# Fed Slashes Rates as Global Ripples Reach Maltese Shores: What the 2025 Cut Means for Malta’s Wallet, Work & Weekends Valletta – While Washington’s marble corridors echoed with talk of “labour-market rebalancing” on Wednesday night, the first U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut of 2025 was already pinging off the limestone walls of Strait Street….
# From Valletta to Copenhagen: How Denmark’s Missile Shopping Spree Hits Close to Home in Malta **Valletta** – When Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announced this week that Copenhagen will splash out on “long-range precision weapons” to counter a resurgent Russia, the news ping-paced across NATO’s southernmost frontier faster than a Knights-period cannonball. Malta,…
A Malta-backed hospital in Ghana is quietly changing thousands of lives ===================================================================== At 05:30 in Accra the equatorial sun is already punching through the haze, but the queue outside the “Malta House of Mercy” stretches calmly around the block. Mothers balance toddlers on hips, elderly men fan themselves with voter-ID cards, and a teenage girl…
Court experts deny having input in freezing orders issued in Vitals case ====================================================================== Valletta – In a twist that has Maltese cafés buzzing louder than the espresso machine at Café Cordina, the three court-appointed experts who combed through the Vitals Global Healthcare concession have formally denied recommending the €30 million freezing orders slapped on 13…
**Malta should prepare to boycott Eurovision over Israeli participation – Zahra** Malta’s Eurovision dream could be headed for an abrupt wake-up call. Independent candidate Mina Jack Zahra has urged the island to “seriously consider” boycotting next year’s song contest if Israel is allowed to compete while its military offensive in Gaza continues. The call, made…
# Cinema: All eyes turn to Asia’s biggest film festival – and Valletta is watching too While the last rays of a Maltese summer still glint off the limestone balconies of Strait Street, cinephiles from Seoul to Busan are rolling out a red carpet that stretches 9,000 kilometres east. The 28th Busan International Film Festival…
**Drug-driving law gives judiciary too little leeway, Edward Zammit Lewis warns** Former Justice Minister Edward Zammit Lewis has sounded the alarm over Malta’s zero-tolerance drug-driving laws, arguing that rigid mandatory sentencing strips judges of discretion and risks turning the courts into “assembly lines of punishment.” In a rare critique from within the Labour fold, the…
**Metsola Brings Maltese Sun to Kyiv: How a Small Island’s Top EU Official Is Re-Wiring Europe’s East** Valletta’s Roberta Metsola strode into Kyiv’s snow-dusted Maidan Square this week carrying more than the EU flag. Tucked in her red diplomatic folder was a little packet of ħobż biż-żejt, a gift from her mother, and a silver…
Valletta – The first nonstop flight between Malta and the United States lifted off from Luqa last week, and local travel insiders are already calling it more than a new route on the departure board. For an island that has spent centuries looking seaward for its fortunes, the 10-hour bridge to New York is being…
St Julian’s on a Friday night feels like a campus that has spilled out of its lecture halls. Cocktails slosh in plastic cups on the steps of Love Monument, Arabic mingles with Italian over shisha smoke, and a hen-party from Leeds negotiates the zebra crossing while a Maltese nanna watches from her doorway, plastic church…
**Inflation Bites: Maltese Families Feel the Squeeze as Prices Outpace EU Average** The aroma of fresh pastizzi wafting through Valletta’s morning air now comes with a side of sticker shock. What once cost 30 cents now demands 50, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to the Nationalist Party, which warns that Malta’s…
