**Malta Marks September 16 with Pride, Promise and a Pinch of Pagentry** *by our newsroom | Tuesday, 16 September 2025* Valletta’s Grand Harbour cannon boomed at noon today, heralding a raft of national announcements that blended heritage, hard cash and high hopes for the future. While the rest of Europe treated Tuesday as routine, Malta…
Valletta’s evening air was thick with more than August humidity on Monday. As Parliament’s bells tolled six, a hush fell over the small crowd huddled outside the Israeli Embassy in Floriana. Candles flickered against posters that read “Għajnuna għal Gaza” – Help for Gaza – in Maltese, English and Arabic. By sunrise the vigil had…
What’s on in Malta and Gozo this week: September 15 to 21, 2025 By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s limestone façades are already warming under the generous September sun when the first brass-band chords ricochet through Strait Street at 07:30 on Monday morning. It’s not a rehearsal—it’s the traditional “Marċ tal-Bieraħ”, a 150-year-old custom that marks…
Valletta’s narrow baroque streets echoed to a different beat last Saturday morning. Instead of the usual shuffle of cruise-shate maps and selfie sticks, children from the St Dominic community centre handed out free lemon-infused water to passers-by while pensioners in straw hats guided “micro-tours” of hidden courtyards normally bolted behind brass knockers. The pop-up initiative,…
Two gleaming, nine-metre electric buses slid silently onto Republic Street this morning, their turquoise-and-yellow livery catching the early spring sun like a pair of oversized ħarīsa sweets. In a country where the morning commute is still soundtracked by the diesel growl of 30-year-old Bedfords, the unveiling felt less like a press event and more like…
# Silk and Water: How Jiangnan’s Ancient Grace is Being Unpacked in Malta This Weekend Valletta’s Mediterranean Conference Centre will feel more like the banks of the Grand Canal of Suzhou this weekend when the China Cultural Centre hosts “Jiangnan Days”, a two-day deep-dive into the canal-threaded region that gave the world silk, ink-wash painting…
Letters to the editor – September 15, 2025 By Hot Malta Staff Valletta’s 17th-century printing press at the National Library is humming again, but this time it’s not stamping out parish notices for knights. Every Monday morning volunteers feed a stack of A4 sheets into the antique machine and produce 2,000 copies of “Ittra Maltija”,…
Alexander Demarco, the softly-spoken lawyer who has spent the last seven years whispering monetary policy into the Prime Minister’s ear, is odds-on to become the next Governor of the Central Bank of Malta when Governor Edward Scicluna’s non-renewable term expires in June. The whispers started in Valletta’s coffee houses, migrated to the law courts of…
Valletta-born 19-year-old Elisa Zammit always knew the polished floorboards of London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire were meant for her feet; she just never imagined the money would appear fast enough. Last week, the rising contemporary dancer became the first Maltese recipient of the €30,000 “Mediterranean Arts Bridge” scholarship, a new fund set up by the Malta…
**Watch: HSBC Malta deal sealed in two weeks – CrediaBank shareholder** In a whirlwind fortnight that has left Malta’s financial community breathless, HSBC Malta’s fate was sealed faster than most locals can finish a festa season. According to a CrediaBank shareholder who spoke exclusively to *Hot Malta*, the deal that will see the Spanish lender…
‘Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti’: new waves on the shore —————————————————- Valletta’s Grand Harbour shimmered under a late-spring haze last Saturday, but the real sparkle was inside the Banca Giuratale hall where Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti (FPM) unveiled its 2024–2027 strategy. For the first time in its 34-year history, the custodian of Malta’s tangible and intangible heritage is…
Pre-budget reflections: fixing the basics, building the future By Hot Malta staff Valletta’s baroque balconies are glowing amber in the late-October sunset, but inside the Auberge de Castille the mood is spreadsheet-grey. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has spent the week “listening” to unions, hunters, hoteliers and TikTok-ing teens who want cheaper bus fares. In cafés…
