Baltic and Nordic visitors have long favoured Malta as a winter-sun study destination and, increasingly, as a remote-work base. Walk down Sliema’s Tower Road on any January afternoon and you’ll hear as much Estonian, Finnish and Swedish as Maltese or English. Yet the same tech-savvy guests who happily open Revolut accounts and Bolt food orders…
Blue Lagoon rehabilitation plan consultation to be launched in coming weeks Comino’s postcard-perfect but overcrowded Blue Lagoon is finally getting a long-overdue lifeline. Environment Minister Miriam Dalli confirmed this week that a public consultation on a “comprehensive rehabilitation plan” will open within the next three weeks, kicking off what could be the most radical rethink…
**From Knights’ Ledger to Neural Networks: How Artificial Intelligence is Quietly Re-wiring Malta’s Financial DNA** Walk past the limestone façade of the Malta Stock Exchange on any given Tuesday and you’ll still see brokers in pastel shirts sipping espresso, but behind the baroque balconies a silent algorithm may have just executed a €5 million bond…
Alex Borg sworn in as Opposition leader: “I will be the people’s megaphone” Valletta – In a crisp noon ceremony inside the austere Parliament chamber, Alex Borg placed his right hand on the Maltese Constitution, repeated the oath of office, and instantly became the youngest-ever Leader of the Opposition in Malta’s post-independence history. The 36-year-old…
‘In love with all good music’ – the phrase sounds like a throw-away Instagram caption until you spend a Friday night in Strait Street and realise it is Valletta’s unofficial motto. From the brassy blast of a local fanfare marching into the City Gate to the sub-bass thump of a Gozo farmhouse rave, Malta’s love…
Valletta’s cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso steam when phones lit up with the headline: Israel had reportedly struck a Hamas office in the heart of Qatar. Within minutes, WhatsApp groups bridging Sliema tech workers and Marsa dockyard traders were swapping voice notes in Maltese, English, and Arabic—an island chorus trying to make sense…
Valletta’s narrow back-streets have always been a refuge for teenagers who fall through the cracks: kids escaping violent homes, failed care homes, or the increasing numbers of sub-Saharan migrants who wash up on Malta’s southern shore with nothing but a phone and a prayer. But on Monday afternoon the façade of “safe small-island living” cracked…
Survivors’ Clean Slate: Malta Backs EU Push to Erase Cancer Debt History After Five Years Valletta – When Miriam* applied for a small bank loan to open her souvenir kiosk in Sliema last year, she ticked the “previous medical conditions” box without thinking. Two weeks later the letter arrived: higher interest, shorter term, extra insurance….
**MEIA Report Pulls Back the Curtain on Malta’s ‘Passion Economy’: Artists Earn €4 an Hour—If They’re Paid at All** Valletta’s open-air theatres are glowing again, Birgu’s candle-lit festivals are back on the calendar, and cruise-ship passengers spill into Strait Street every evening to snap photos of buskers in lacey *għonnella* costumes. From the outside, Malta’s…
**Valletta Drama: Statuette Attack Sparks Debate on Domestic Violence Against Men in Malta** A heated domestic dispute in Malta’s capital has taken an unexpected turn after a 34-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly hurling a ceramic statuette at her partner and vandalising two of his cars in a late-night rampage that has reignited conversations about…
**Polish Skies, Maltese Minds: How Russian Drones Over Poland Echo in Valletta’s Cafés** Valletta’s Republic Street was buzzing with more than the usual Friday-night chatter last weekend. Between clinking Ċisk bottles and heated debates over pastizzi crumbs, the talk wasn’t only about the latest festa fireworks or whether Malta will ever get a metro. Instead,…
# From Sliema to Copenhagen: How Novo Nordisk’s 9,000 Job Cuts Could Ripple Through Malta’s Tiny But Mighty Pharma Scene **By [Author Name] | Hot Malta** *Thursday, 09:17* It started as a whisper in the pharmacy corridors of Mater Dei and ended up on the breakfast tables of TikTok-obsessed twenty-somethings who swear the jab keeps…
