"Around the middle of January 2020, when we first heard about this new virus which had caused millions of people to go in isolation, and which was claiming victims in China, most of us ignored and...

One of the best natural healing medicines that comes free of charge is humour, joy and laughter. In a fast-moving world, where our minds are caught up with so much distraction, preoccupations and...

This is the third book in the author's latest trilogy. Fortunately, as against the first two, there are no problematic political overtones. The main actor is still the same - retired police...

Geography is not my strong point. My husband always blamed my lack of sense of direction for the reason I landed in Mauritius. A friend invited me to go to dinner with her one evening a month or...

Giovanni Bosco, son of Margherita' Occhiena and Francesco Bosco, born in Castelnuovo d'Asti on 16 August 1815 and died in Torino on 31 January 1988 at the age of 73. I think that only a few people had...

The book is set in vintage Alfred Massa territory - a plain lower middle class family living, from the details one gleans, in the southeast area of Malta. A perfectly normal family but one where the...

Maltese authors Charles Casha, Joseph Debono, Rita Saliba and Trevor Zahra recently received the Nazzareno Vassallo Award 2021 organised by CareMalta as part of the Vassallo Group's 75th anniversary....

Electronic Music Malta (EMM), Malta's home of contemporary electronic music, is organising this year's edition of Circuits Festival, which will be held between 23 October and 9 December. The...

The Tayar Foundation for Jewish Heritage in Malta has launched a campaign to restore and maintain Malta's three Jewish cemeteries. The cemetery found in Kalkara has quite a history having been...

"When COVID struck, I could not travel and I could not write. So I translated instead. Our yearly holiday abroad has always been the highlight of my family's life. Before COVID, our "next holiday" was...