Finnish phone ban brings focus, and chatter, back to school – could Malta ever hang up? Valletta’s grand-parents still talk about the day the first Nokia brick landed in their children’s blazer pockets: suddenly, break-time hopscotch was replaced by snake hunts on grey screens. Fast-forward to 2024 and Finland – the very birthplace of that…
**See, Hear and Speak Out: How Malta’s Communities Are Turning Up the Volume on Justice** Valletta’s Republic Street at noon is a symphony of honking horns, clattering coffee cups and vendors hawking pastizzi. Yet beneath the everyday racket, a quieter chorus is swelling—one that invites every Maltese citizen to *see* injustice, *hear* the vulnerable and…
**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…
Fixed-line phones gathering dust in Maltese homes as nation goes mobile-only, survey shows By [Author Name] | Hot Malta Walk into any Maltese household on a Sunday and the scene is almost cinematic: steaming plate of timpana on the table, television blaring ONE Radio, nonna fanning herself with the free magazine that came with the…
The story of Saint Carlo Acutis, God’s Gen Z influencer By Hot Malta staff | 14 min read Valletta’s 400-year-old parish church of St Dominic was unusually packed last Tuesday evening—not for a wedding or festa, but for a live-streamed Mass in honour of a 15-year-old boy who never set foot on the island. Teenagers…
Apple Unveils iPhone 17 Air Amid AI Race and Tariff Pressures – What It Means for Malta’s Tech-Hungry Islanders By Hot Malta Newsroom Sliema’s Tower Road was still yawning itself awake at 06:00 CET when Apple’s pre-recorded keynote flickered onto the giant LED screen outside the iCentre outlet. By 06:03, a queue of slippers-and-coffee Maltese…
Economic force: Why Malta has become a global hub for the gaming industry By Hot Malta Staff | 9 min read Walk along Sliema’s seafront at 17:30 on a weekday and you’ll spot the giveaway: clusters of twenty-somethings in branded hoodies debating RTP algorithms over ħobż biż-żejt, their MacBooks glowing amber in the sunset. Since…
It’s-a-him, Malta: 40 years of Mario and the island that never stopped jumping Valletta’s evening air was thick with nostalgia last Friday as the capital’s biggest gaming café, Glitch, projected a pixel-perfect speed-run of Super Mario Bros. on the façade of the old Embassy Theatre. Passers-by—grandparents clutching pastizzi, teenagers in Fortnite hoodies, tourists fresh off…
“Ħelow? Ħelow? Mela, qed tismeni?” The only reply is the hollow buzz of an unanswered call. Across Malta, from the narrow limestone alleys of Valletta to the sea-sprayed balconies of Marsaxlokk, parents are discovering the same phenomenon: their teenagers have simply stopped picking up the phone. It’s 19:35 on a humid June evening and Marisa…
The Data Act: a new era for Europe’s data economy – what it means for a Maltese family running a pastizzeria from their kitchen in Żabbar, a Gozitan start-up gamifying village history, and every tourist tapping free Wi-Fi outside the Tritons fountain. Picture Marija Psaila, 29, juggling a tray of ricotta pastizzi in her grandmother’s…
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…
Catholic teen set to become first millennial saint: How Carlo Acutis is already inspiring Maltese youth The pews of the Oratory of St Francis in Birkirkara were unusually packed last Sunday—not for a wedding or First Communion, but for a special Mass celebrated by Maltese teenagers who had just returned from a week-long pilgrimage to…
