**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…
The journey of a strong soul: How Malta’s quiet resilience is rewriting the mental-health story By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s 7 a.m. cannon still hangs in the air when 34-year-old Kim Borg wheels her market-stall into Merchant Street. The wooden boards are painted the colour of ħobż biż-żejt tomatoes; on them she arranges hand-poured candles…
**Police and Priests Are Human Too: Malta’s Unrealistic Expectations of Its Authority Figures** In a nation where the parish priest still commands front-row respect at village festas and where a police constable’s whistle can clear a street faster than any traffic light, Maltese society clings to an old, unspoken contract: authority figures are supposed to…
Suicide: proactive prevention How Malta is swapping silence for solidarity By Laura Vella | 09 June 2024 The limestone walls of Valletta glow amber at sunset, but behind the honey-coloured facades many Maltese families carry a private shadow: suicide. For decades the subject was wrapped in a lace curtain of hushed whispers, Our-Lady-of-Sorrows novenas and…
Valletta – It’s 05:45 on a humid August morning and 27-year-old Mandy* is already cycling from her shared flat in Gżira to the ferry terminal, laptop in backpack, gig-economy insulated bag strapped to the handlebars. By 06:30 she is steaming lattes for early commuters at a café kiosk in Valletta. At 10:00 she switches aprons…
ChatGPT to Get Parental Controls After Teen’s Death – What Malta Needs to Know Valletta, Malta – The news that OpenAI will roll out stricter parental controls for ChatGPT, following the suicide of a 14-year-old in Florida, has landed on our islands with the force of a summer sirocco. In a nation where 92 %…
