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Marie Benoit's Diary: So, Farewell then, dear Cynthia

Sunday, 7 February 2021, 10:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Marie Benoît

The sad news that Cynthia Caruana Turner was a victim of Covid-19 spread like wildfire last week. Yes, it had happened. 'Thou knowest not the hour, nor the place.' No truer words were written. No,...

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Sunday, 7 February 2021, 09:26 Last update: about 7 years ago

There are literally skeletons in the closet upstairs at the Main Guard on Misraħ San Ġorġ in Valletta. Two crouching painted skeletons prop up either end of a door frame leading to...

Stealing the conclave

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:56 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Sooner or later, it will have to happen. The conclave to choose a new pope. Novelists of all hues and colours have been trying to draw up a scenario for the next conclave for many years...

marie Benoit's Diary: A complete change of career in midlife

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:53 Last update: about 7 years ago Marie Benoît

"I was happily working for the past sixteen years as a self employed beautician, when out of the blue, we were hit by Covid 19.  Nobody had the slightest idea that the world was to face one of...

MAGG webinar on Covid-19 and older persons

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:51 Last update: about 7 years ago

Noel Borg, senior nursing manager of the CareMalta Group and non-executive director of Hila Homes, was a guest speaker at a webinar organised on 20 January by the Malta Association of Gerontology and...

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Malta (1952-54)

Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 09:47 Last update: about 7 years ago Anthony Zarb Dimech

The early 1950s saw the ascension of Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England and her first visit in that capacity to Malta on 3 May 1954.  The 1950s were marked by many of the world powers...

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