**What Your Neck Size Reveals About Your Health: A Maltese Wake-Up Call** As Maltese men proudly button up their Sunday shirts and women fasten delicate necklaces passed down through generations, few realize that a simple measurement could reveal crucial health insights. Your neck size, that seemingly innocuous number, has become Malta’s latest health conversation starter—and…
**Pharmacies open today – September 14, 2025: Your Sunday lifeline across Malta and Gozo** It’s a sleepy Sunday morning in September, the kind where the sun already feels like a warm shawl across the limestone balconies of Valletta. Church bells have just finished their 8 a.m. cascade and the scent of freshly-baked ftira is drifting…
Budget Day announced: October 27 ================================= Valletta’s baroque balconies were still dripping with post-summer rain on Monday morning when Finance Minister Clyde Caruana stepped up to the lectern in Castille and uttered the three words every Maltese waiter, shop-owner and taxi driver had been waiting for: “Il-Budget huwa fis-27 ta’ Ottubru.” Budget Day is 27…
**“Am I failing the kids?” – The hidden cost of widowhood in Malta** By 7 a.m. the Sliema flat is already humming: kettle hissing, school shirts flapping on the balcony, and 42-year-old Miriam* sliding €2 into two separate envelopes labelled “milk money” while her 11-year-old twins still sleep. Three years after her husband David died…
€25,000 licence surrender scheme will start soon but ‘target younger generation’ ================================================================================ Valletta’s silent war on wheels has a new battle plan: a €25,000 cheque for anyone willing to hand back their taxi or mini-cab licence. Transport Minister Aaron Farrugia confirmed this week that the long-mooted buy-back will open “within weeks”, yet the small print…
**September 13, 2025: A Day of Quiet Reflection and Subtle Shifts in Malta** As the first cool breath of autumn swept across the Grand Harbour this morning, Malta awoke to a series of understated yet significant announcements that promise to ripple through the archipelago’s social fabric in the months ahead. While the rest of Europe…
Valletta’s Eurovision watch-parties have always been a kaleidoscope of Maltese flags, glitter cannons and pastizzi crumbs, but the 2026 edition could feel eerily empty if Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS makes good on its threat to boycott should Israel be allowed to compete. The announcement, made late Tuesday evening on the Netherlands’ flagship current-affairs show Nieuwsuur, has…
Valletta – “The greatest challenge of our time is not traffic or construction—it’s the empty cradle,” Finance Minister Clyde Caruana told parliament this week, waving a sheet of statistics that showed Malta’s total fertility rate has slipped to 1.05 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded on the islands and barely half the replacement level…
**Ireland threatens Eurovision boycott if Israel takes part** *Malta’s Eurovision community watches nervously as political storm clouds gather over 2024 contest* By [Author Name] | Hot Malta Valletta – While Malta’s Eurovision fans are still buzzing from The Busker’s feel-good trip to Liverpool, a fresh political storm is brewing that could split the contest down…
**From Knights’ Ledger to Neural Networks: How Artificial Intelligence is Quietly Re-wiring Malta’s Financial DNA** Walk past the limestone façade of the Malta Stock Exchange on any given Tuesday and you’ll still see brokers in pastel shirts sipping espresso, but behind the baroque balconies a silent algorithm may have just executed a €5 million bond…
An excellent source of protein: health, hype and hard truths Monday evening, 18:55. The last rays of sun bounce off the limestone walls of the Għarb parish square while a queue already snakes past the baroque church. At the front, 78-year-old Nanna Rita clutches a reusable bag emblazoned with “Gozo Pride” and waits patiently for…
# A Financial Flex Too Far: When Maltese Opulence Bites Back The Balzan villa was supposed to be the crown jewel—three floors of imported Carrara marble, a subterranean cinema that seats 20, and a rooftop infinity pool that spills toward the twinkling lights of Valletta. Instead, it has become a cautionary tale whispered over pastizzi…
