‘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…
**Valletta’s Streets to Become Open-Air Counselling Room in First-Ever Youth Mental Health Festival** A kaleidoscope of pop-up art installations, dawn-to-dusk sports sessions and silent disco therapy nights will take over the capital next month as Malta stages its first festival dedicated entirely to young minds. “Well-Being October”, unveiled yesterday by the parliamentary secretariat for youth…
**Watch: Von der Leyen gives her 2025 State of the Union speech – What it means for Malta** As Ursula von der Leyen took to the European Parliament podium on Wednesday morning to deliver her fifth State of the Union address, Maltese eyes were fixed on Brussels with more than casual curiosity. The Commission President’s…
**11-Year Sentence for Ex-Boyfriend’s Rape Sends Shockwaves Through Malta’s Relationship Culture** A 31-year-old Birkirkara man has been jailed for 11 years after being convicted of raping his former partner in her own apartment, a verdict that is rippling through Malta’s tight-knit communities and forcing a national conversation about consent, power and the shadow side of…
**Woman admits misappropriating €15,000, blames drugs as court hears of spiral from painkillers to €100-a-day habit** A 34-year-old mother-of-two from Żabbar broke down in Malta’s Criminal Court on Tuesday as she admitted to siphoning €15,000 from the Sliema travel agency where she worked, telling Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera that a “harmless” prescription for tramadol after…
