**Il-Malti is our identity, not English: Why our language matters more than ever** The elderly man at the Ħamrun bus stop switches effortlessly from Maltese to English mid-sentence, a linguistic dance that would confuse any tourist. “Mela, I’m telling you, the bus is late again,” he tells his companion, embodying Malta’s bilingual reality. Yet beneath…
**Boom Times: 2.2 Million Visitors Choose Malta, Injecting €2 Billion into Island Life** Valletta’s cruise-liner horns haven’t stopped blushing. From January to July, 2.2 million travellers stepped onto Maltese tarmac, gangways and ferry decks—enough to fill the Granaries in Floriana five times over—and left behind €2.02 billion in their sun-baked wake. The figures, released yesterday…
Gas cylinders clanged one last time on Friday as Malta’s €2.3 million annual state subsidy for door-to-door LPG delivery was axed five years early, ending a 70-year ritual that turned kerbside “buttuna” drops into a national soundtrack. From today, households must fetch their own 12 kg cylinders from authorised points or pay the full €26.50…
**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…
**Young Voices, Big Dreams: Gozo’s Next Generation Takes the Mic** *A new public-speaking course on Malta’s sister island is turning shy schoolchildren into confident storytellers—and giving Gozo’s dialect a proud new stage.* XAGĦRA, GOZO—On a breezy Thursday afternoon, the usually quiet parish hall in Xagħra echoes with applause. A 10-year-old wearing her brother’s oversized blazer…
Floriana’s Independence Arena was already humming at 07:30 this morning as Prime Minister Robert Abela stepped up to the microphone for the first of three surprise “Announcements – September 9, 2025” that will echo through every village square by nightfall. Flanked by the scarlet standards of the Malta Philharmonic Band and framed by the Triton…
From the balconies of Valletta’s Upper Barrakka Gardens, where French tourists often pose for selfies against the azure sweep of the Grand Harbour, news of Paris’s political earthquake landed with unexpected resonance. On Tuesday, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne was toppled by a no-confidence vote in the Assemblée Nationale—only the second time since 1962 that…
The Sweet Trap: How Maltese Babies Are Losing Their First Teeth to Night-Time Bottles By Hot Malta Staff | 6 min read Every evening, as the last ferry leaves Valletta’s Grand Harbour and the church bells of Mosta fall silent, thousands of Maltese parents settle their babies with what feels like an innocent comfort: a…
A Positive Signal with Emissions Reduction: Malta’s Quiet Revolution from Below Valletta’s skyline at dusk is no longer smudged by the familiar brown haze that used to hang over the Grand Harbour. On the first wind-still evening of June, the air above Fort St Elmo was clear enough to pick out the twinkling lights of…
**Malta climbs global FDI rankings – and the village festa might never be the same** For generations, the loudest engine on a Maltese summer night was the *kaxxa infernali* hauling fireworks to the village square. This week, a quieter hum stole the spotlight: the sound of foreign direct investment (FDI) surging through fibre-optic cables and…
New PN leader Alex Borg pledges to work ‘side by side’ with Adrian Delia The Pietà headquarters of the Nationalist Party (PN) echoed with applause on Saturday evening as Alex Borg, a 42-year-old lawyer from Rabat, took the stage as the freshly elected leader and immediately pledged to govern “shoulder to shoulder” with his former…
Malta sees biggest improvement in foreign investment ranking: A Mediterranean triumph that’s already reshaping village life Valletta – The latest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index, released this week by global consultancy Kearney, has delivered the sweetest of surprises to our sun-splattered archipelago: Malta leapt twelve places to 24th out of 25 ranked economies—the single…
