Malta Diary: What links “Calypso” to Jacques Cousteau … to Malta and Gozo?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: As a young boy many were the days I spent in front of our television, huddled in an armchair, enveloped...
Malta Diary No more flickering candles, shadows, ghosts or ghouls –laptops and play stations rule now
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: My late father was a great story-teller having acquired the knack from his boyhood...
Malta Diary “L-Imnarja”, clinging to old traditions – but for how long?
“For the world is achangin’” sang the legend Bob Dylan so many years ago and we sang the words and took them with a pinch of salt. Well,...
Malta Diary A long-standing romance in a marriage of convenience
I am ready to bet my last cent that every seafaring sailor throughout the ranks of the British Royal Navy between 1900 and 1960 at some time...
When Britain’s King George VI died in 1952 – Malta went into deep mourning Malta Diary
There are some things etched in childhood memory that one never forgets. When King George VI (Albert, Frederick, Arthur, George Windsor) died on 6th February 1952 I was...
Malta Diary Was Malta once the nerve-control centre of the lost continent Atlantis?
Being one of the world’s smallest countries, on a per square metre (or mile) comparison, the volume of historical studies written about Malta and Gozo indisputably far exceed...
Malta Diary From prostitution to restitution – where the light has changed from RED to GREEN
The Sliema suburb of Gzira (literally meaning Island, a name given it by virtue of an adjacent small island known as Manoel Island to which it is connected...