‘Stejjer Stretti Jirxoxtaw’
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 11:10
Last update: about 6 years ago
As part of the Valletta Cultural Agency's 2021 cultural programme, The Strada Stretta Concept is collaborating with local għannejja for a performance dedicated to the re-telling of infamous...
Vassallo Group chairman visits CareMalta homes
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 11:09
Last update: about 6 years ago
Entrepreneur Nazzareno Vassallo recently visited all homes run by CareMalta as part of an initiative to celebrate active ageing and the month dedicated to older persons. Natalie Briffa Farrugia...
How ‘Taralalla’ came to be
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 11:06
Last update: about 6 years ago
When I was first commissioned to write a play for Spazju Kreattiv last year, I took it as an opportunity to learn and dive into the world of theatre which was still so very new to me. I couldn't just...
Diary by CHARLENE FARRUGIA: Overcoming the pademic’s obstacles
Sunday, 24 October 2021, 10:00
Last update: about 6 years ago
"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...
‘Dr Brombos’: Pre-Second World War humour magazine
Friday, 22 October 2021, 11:26
Last update: about 6 years ago
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...
Death, Alzheimer’s and gays
Friday, 22 October 2021, 09:05
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
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...
Marie Benoit's Diary: Good food in Mgarr
Sunday, 17 October 2021, 10:50
Last update: about 6 years ago
Marie Benoît
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...
Don Bosco, the prisons in Torino and his educational vision
Saturday, 16 October 2021, 12:25
Last update: about 6 years ago
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...
Things that happen to ‘normal’ family
Saturday, 16 October 2021, 12:23
Last update: about 6 years ago
Noel Grima
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...
Four authors win Nazzareno Vassallo Award 2021
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 16:36
Last update: about 6 years ago
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....