Malta Diary Did Malta’s Neolithic inhabitants prefer to worship Astarte rather than Tanit? Were sacrifices of babies and children carried out?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Worship of the Goddess-Deity TANIT stretched back to Neolithic times and filtered down to the...
Malta Diary Malta once more riding on the crest of a Mediterranean tsunami – will it sink beneath the waves?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Not for the first time in its history, Malta is once more riding the waves...
Malta Diary Hip-Hop Hooray – and throw in some rock, some rap … and Malta is making its mark in the world of festivals and concerts
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Right ho – so yes, there is an age gap, a great age gap and I now stand (or...
Malta Diary “If not now – when?” “If not us – who?” Growing climate and oceans crisis causing Malta much concern
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The latest updates from UN agencies on climate change are far from good. Imminently, the...
Malta Diary Religion and fear of the devil and the “Evil Eye” were the hallmarks of The Inquisitor and his powerful position
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Heresy, witchcraft and devilish evil were preoccupations of the Church of Rome almost from...
Malta Diary Was Malta uninhabited for 150 years in the 9th and 10th Centuries? New discoveries may throw light on the matter
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: On 8th May earlier this year, my Malta Diary dealt with the saline qualities...
Malta Diary Keeping the marine biodiversity lifeline active – Malta in the forefront
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The threat of marine pollution together with environmental problems as a result of rapid climate...
Malta Diary Malta’s tourism growing and growing; Certificate of Excellence for a number of historic sites
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Malta’s first ventures into tourism back in the 1960s were based on its prehistoric sites and...
Malta Diary Fancy a loaf of bread that’s 2,120 years old? It may be a trifle hard – but it’s not stale!
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Malta must stand as the longest most colonised country in the world –...
Malta Diary Out with the old, in with the new – Maltese balconies have become fibreglass cages
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: I am sick and tired of hearing people of my elderly age group lamenting...
Malta Diary Who was Francesco “il Maltese’” – and why did he have three different names?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Although a celebrated artist in the world of baroque painting and having throughout a...
Malta Diary No swimming bugs from Malta and Gozo swim bays – certified to be 99% excellent
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Great Britain is on its way out of the European Union – and I...
Malta Diary Malta’s agriculture and fisheries sectors – rapidly heading to the end of the road?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: When Malta became independent and no longer a British Colony on 21st September, 1964,...
Malta Diary Malta and its walls and bastions – “For sheer concentration and majesty quite unmatched”
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Man and walls. They have worked together since the start of recorded history. Some walls...
Malta Diary Malta always on the go – an island that never sleeps?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: We as inhabitants are fully used to it. Should anybody plan to visit Malta...
Malta Diary The lure of the salt and the sea – Malta’s lengthy history in saline culture
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: “Sapore di sale, sapore di mare” is the much loved Italian song by popular...
Malta Diary How did they die and why were they interred there? The mystery of the bones in St Gregory’s Chapel
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: On 12th March, 1969, fifty years ago, work was being carried out on the...
Malta Diary Glory, Glory Hallelujah – they have agreed on something at long, long, last…
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Malta and Gozo have a Government and an Opposition – elected democratically. Malta and...
Malta Diary Easter, the most important event in the Christian calendar, but sadly also on the wane
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: As a close boyhood friend of the Jewish faith once rightly told me “if...
MALTA DIARY: Queen Elizabeth II – a life-long relationship with Malta; former residence to be restored and maybe become a museum
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: When Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was asked last year by a newspaper to name her...
MALTA DIARY: The legends and myths of Calypso’s Cave – was Greek hero Ulysses detained there as a captive lover?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The name Malta, previously known as Melita, derived from the Greek word “Melos” meaning honey...
MALTA DIARY: Bring on those lazy, hazy days of summer – and the quicker the better
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Do you still harbour doubts about the effects of climate change? A newspaper...
MALTA DIARY: The long and rocky road to the total freedom of the Maltese Islands 40 years ago – Part Two
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: With Dom Mintoff’s resignation as Prime Minister and hence the Government’s resignation in...
MALTA DIARY: The long and rocky road to the total freedom of the Maltese Islands 40 years ago – Part One
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The late Dominic Mintoff was born in Cospicua on 6th August, 2016, midway...
MALTA DIARY: Wind, rain and thunder … and the heavens were split asunder – Malta’s worst storm in decades
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The biblical Gospel of St Luke (who was a medical doctor in his time...
MALTA DIARY: They came, they saw and they conquered – the Romans in Malta
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: It is more than obvious that when Rome and the Romans conceived their...
MALTA DIARY: New finds at Għar Dalam – when hippos and dwarf elephants roamed over Malta and Gozo
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The mind has to stretch back millions upon millions of years, Europe and Africa...
MALTA DIARY: Brexit turmoil in the UK; Brexit concern in Malta; recollections of a boyhood spent under the Union Jack
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The inseparable links between Malta and Great Britain stretch back to the late...
MALTA DIARY: The EU Member States’ Rule of Law – Malta is small, so bully it!
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: May I request all readers to inform me and let me know which...
Malta Diary; Was Malta at the centre of Noah’s Flood?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: ——————– ——————– The article I best loved as my favourite in 2018? This...
MALTA DIARY: A digital existence in a digital world – Esplora a wonder of scientific exploration
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: I don’t actually much remember what I was, who I was or what questions...
MALTA DIARY: Has the spirit of Christmas been pawned and is now usurped by the lure of money?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: My only grandson Gabriel is five years old and well knows Christmas is...
MALTA DIARY: Time to legalise prostitution and end the sham?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: In 1968 Malta, together with the Republic of Ireland, was regarded as the...
Malta Diary MUŻA – a new addition for contemporary arts lovers and receiving high ratings and acclaim
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Malta’s capital city Valletta was alive and kicking from 1570 onwards, having been built...
Malta Diary Is the end of the world nigh? When and how will it end? Are things getting out of hand …
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: As a youngster in London where as a family we normally spent our Sunday afternoons...
Malta Diary; The ant sees off the elephant – in 1798 the Gozitans expelled Napoleon Bonaparte and the French and Gozo became ‘independent’!
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Napoleon met his Waterloo on 18th June, 1815 – but well before that he met...
MALTA DIARY: Go fly a kite – another tradition and pastime that is done and dusted?
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Some five and sixty years ago I was a seven-year-old boy. Some five and sixty...
Malta Diary Myths of love, devils, pirates, brigands and miracles – the stuff of Maltese legends
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Although in modern-day light national and local legends seem to be nothing more than stuff...
Malta Diary Knock, knock gradually giving way to ring, ring – and another part of history beginning to fade away
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Would you ever imagine in your wildest fantasy that door-knocking and door-knockers...
MALTA DIARY: Michelangelo Merisi – Caravaggio – a life of turmoil and trouble reflected in his art masterpieces
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: Some years ago I visited the famous ancient Roman ruins at Ephesus in...