How to stop Malta’s ride-hailing sector from potential money laundering risks By Hot Malta | 6 min read On any given Friday evening, the streets of Sliema and St Julian’s throb with a familiar rhythm: cars with green Uber and Bolt stickers jostle with dusty white taxis whose drivers still quote “€20 to Valletta” like…
# Marsa Stock Exchange Ends Summer on a High Note as Local Firms Shine The Marsa Stock Exchange wrapped up its final week before the village festa season with a flourish, posting its strongest September performance in five years as Maltese investors returned from their August siestas with pockets full of Luzzu-shaped gelato change and…
“One game outside Europe is one too many” – the phrase ricocheted around the MFA offices in Ta’ Qali last week when news broke that Malta’s senior national squad could be invited to a lucrative mini-tournament in Riyadh next winter. On paper, a Gulf stop-over sounds harmless: a fat appearance fee, winter sun, maybe a…
Fitch Retains Malta’s A+ Rating: Strong Economy, but Governance Shadows Still Linger Over the Rock Valletta’s honey-coloured bastions were bathed in early-summer sunshine yesterday as credit-rating agency Fitch handed Malta its annual report card—and once again stamped an A+ on the little archipelago. The decision keeps the country among the top-tier borrowers of the EU,…
At 50, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is ‘imperfectly’ good (and queer) as ever – and Malta is still doing the Time Warp St Julian’s’ Eden Cinemas is usually quiet on a Tuesday night, yet last week its lobby pulsed with glitter, feather boas and the unmistakable bassline of “Sweet Transvestite”. The occasion? A special…
Pay People €2.50 Every Time They Use the Bus? A Bold Plan to Get Malta Moving Again By Hot Malta | Published 09:45 CEST, 23 May 2024 Strolling past the crumbling limestone facades of Strait Street on a May morning, you can almost taste the diesel in the air: delivery vans double-parked outside cafés, ride-shares…
Trump’s ‘Department of War’ Rebrand Sends Ripples Through Valletta’s Café Bars By Luke Vella, Hot Malta Correspondent Valletta – At 10 a.m. on a humid Thursday, the chatter inside Caffè Cordina was not about the latest Pastizzi Festival, but about Donald Trump. The former U.S. president had just hailed the proposed re-naming of the Pentagon’s…
Pensioners awarded compensation over savings plan promises ———————————————————- Floriana’s law courts echoed with quiet cheers yesterday as 127 Maltese pensioners – many clutching rosaries and grandchildren’s hands – finally heard the words they had waited eight years for: “You are entitled to full restitution, plus moral damages.” The landmark judgment closes a painful chapter that…
PN to Elect New Leader Today: A Nation Watches as the Opposition Turns the Page Valletta’s morning cafés are buzzing louder than usual. By the time the church bells of St John’s Co-Cathedral strike ten, delegates of the Nationalist Party (PN) will be locked inside the old Phoenicia Hotel ballroom, deciding who gets to wake…
Letters to the editor – September 6, 2025 By Rebecca Zammit, Hot Malta The Saturday edition of Times of Malta lands on doorsteps a little later these days—post-coffee, post-kannoli, post-swim—but the letters page is still the first thing many Maltese turn to. By 09:30 the paper is spread across café tables from Valletta’s Strait Street…
Saturday, 6 September 2025 dawned with the first wisps of the Sirocco still clinging to the limestone walls, yet Valletta’s streets were already humming. Beneath fluttering bandiera Maltija hanging from wrought-iron balconies, Prime Minister Roberta Pace stepped onto the Palace balcony at 9.30 a.m. sharp—heralding a day of announcements that will ripple through every village…
In Pictures: Victory Day Celebrations Kick Off in Valletta The cannon boomed across Grand Harbour at sunrise, and Valletta’s honey-coloured bastions lit up in the warm glow of a thousand camera flashes. By 7 a.m., the Upper Barrakka Gardens were already humming with families waving Maltese flags, pensioners polishing miniature George Cross medals, and teenagers…
