Here’s How My Wife and I Solve Money Disagreements – A Maltese Couple’s Playbook By Karl Vella Sliema, Malta – “Uwejja, not another ħobż biż-żejt argument!” laughs Marija, 34, as she recalls the night she and her husband Luke almost came to blows over whether to bulk-buy discounted bread at the local Tower Supermarket. It…
Who Really Runs Malta: Developers, Politicians or the PA? It’s a question that bubbles up every time a new tower cranes its neck above Valletta’s skyline or when a pristine valley in Rabat suddenly sprouts a concrete scar: who actually calls the shots on this rock we call home—developers, politicians, or the Planning Authority (PA)?…
Malta Consul Races to Casablanca: Lifeline Thrown to Maltese Prisoner in Dire Straits When the phone rang at 3:27 a.m. last Tuesday in the consular section of Malta’s Rabat headquarters, duty officer Maria Zammit recognised the Moroccan country code instantly. On the line was a frantic Maltese woman whose brother, 42-year-old welder and father-of-three Luke…
France Slaps Google & Shein with Mega-Fines: What Malta’s Cookie Pop-up Chaos Could Mean for Us By now every Maltese smartphone addict has done the dance: you open a new site, a Technicolor banner erupts—“We value your privacy!”—and before you can tap “Accept All,” your thumb has already sold your digital soul. Yesterday, France decided…
Sicily Highway Horror Claims Two Maltese Lives: Doris & Manuel Buhagiar Remembered The tight-knit village of Żurrieq woke yesterday to the kind of news that stops conversations mid-sentence: Doris and Manuel Buhagiar, a couple celebrated for their infectious laughter and devotion to family, were killed on Sunday evening in a head-on collision on the A20…
Maltese fishermen have always joked that the sea owns half our calendar—feast days, football finals, even weddings get planned around wind patterns and moon tides. Yesterday afternoon that old adage proved itself in the most dramatic way when a Marsascala trawler, the “Santa Katarina”, began taking on water five nautical miles south-east of St Thomas…
Watch: PM hints at financial compensation for family of Mirabelle Falzon Valletta – In a brief but loaded aside caught on camera during Tuesday’s parliamentary adjournment, Prime Minister Robert Abela appeared to open the door to “a measure of reparation” for the relatives of Mirabelle Falzon, the 20-year-old Gozitan woman whose 1980 disappearance remains one…
Malta Becomes the Mediterranean’s New Boardroom as 100+ Global Power Players Dock in Valletta By a Hot Malta Correspondent The cannon fired from Upper Barrakka at noon yesterday did more than mark the hour. It welcomed the largest single-day convergence of international business leaders the island has seen since the Knights of Malta hosted Europe’s…
HSBC Bank Malta hits 18-month low: what it means for your Sunday kafè plans By a Hot Malta correspondent The red-and-white HSBC lion that guards the bank’s flagship Qormi branch looked a touch less regal this week. Shares of HSBC Bank Malta closed on Wednesday at €0.73, their lowest level since December 2022, wiping roughly…
“YOU’RE JUST A FOREIGNER” – CAB DRIVER RECOUNTS THREATS FROM MALTESE PASSENGER ————————————————————————– It started like any other Friday night outside St Julian’s Bay. At 1:47 a.m., 34-year-old Nigerian-born driver *Emeka* flicked on his green taxi light and waited for the passenger who had just pinged the app. Within minutes, a man in a red…
ID card renewals outsourced to local councils to ‘ease the process’ Valletta – In a move that will bring government bureaucracy to village squares and parish steps, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri has announced that national ID card renewals will soon be handled directly by local councils. The pilot project, launching next month across ten…
Valletta cinephiles woke this week to news that the world’s oldest film festival, Venice, had just premiered a work that hits closer to home than any Mediterranean war drama in recent memory. “No Other Land”, an unprecedented co-production by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, opened the Orizzonti Extra sidebar to a ten-minute standing ovation—then left Maltese…
