School camp organisers lumped with bill five times higher than agreed price Żebbuġ primary school’s annual “Kamp tan-Natura” was supposed to end with toasted marshmallows and teary farewells last Friday. Instead, 47 eight-year-olds watched their teachers argue with Gozo campsite managers while a credit-card machine beeped “declined” in the background. The bill had ballooned from…
**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…
‘Not trained for this’: Inside Malta’s classrooms where teachers feel lost supporting children with autism Ms Lara Briffa, a Year 4 teacher at a government primary school in Żabbar, still remembers the first time eight-year-old Luke* had a meltdown in class. “He started screaming, flapping his hands and knocking over chairs. Twenty-eight other kids stared…
From the honey-coloured limestone of Valletta classrooms to the sun-washed courtyards of Gozo’s primary schools, a quiet revolution is taking place. Over one hundred Maltese educators have just completed the first island-wide “Classroom Peace” training programme, an initiative that blends Mediterranean values of community and respect with cutting-edge emotional-intelligence techniques. The result? Calmer corridors, kinder…
As the first Thursday of September dawns, the Maltese islands stir with the soft rustle of new beginnings. September 4, 2025 is not just another date on the civic calendar; it is the unofficial curtain-raiser to the season that locals call “l-awguri ġodda” – the fresh wishes. From the ferry decks of Gozo to the…
Google Dodges Chrome Break-Up: What a US Judge’s Ruling Means for Malta’s €1.5 Billion Digital Bet By Luke Caruana | Hot Malta Valletta’s cafés were buzzing yesterday with more than just talk of festa fireworks and summer rents. Entrepreneurs, lawyers and start-up founders huddled over cortados, dissecting a decision handed down 8,000 kilometres away in…
A New Chapter for Malta’s Financial Guardians: MFSA Launches First-Ever “Journal of Financial Supervisors Academy” Valletta’s Grand Harbour shimmered under a late-spring sun this week as the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) unveiled Volume I of the Journal of Financial Supervisors Academy – a sleek, bilingual tome that locals are already calling “the little red…
Science by sea: new luzzu route connects Sliema and Valletta to Esplora By Hot Malta Correspondent At 8:30 on a brisk April morning, the first passengers clambered onto a freshly painted luzzu moored below the Sliema Ferries kiosk. Instead of the usual jaunt to Comino, the boat’s bright red, blue and yellow bow pointed south-east,…
