Monthly Archives: December 2016

Best wishes for 2017

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Farewell to a friend and mentor

Originally posted on Darrin Zammit Lupi's Blog:
A good friend passed away today.  Lino Arrigo Azzopardi, an Associated Press photographer here in Malta for many years, passed away aged 77 after a battle with cancer, a battle which destroyed…

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MY MENTOR & MASTER NEWS PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER DIES WITH OTHER 2016 GREATS

LINO ARRIGO AZZOPARDI WAS NOT JUST A NEWS PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY COLLEAGUE, HE WAS MY MASTER MENTOR SINCE THE FIRST DAY I GOT ASSIGNED BY MY HEADQUARTERS TO HANDLE & COORDINATE PRESS MEDIA RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MALTESE MILITARY AND THE NUMEROUS LOCAL AND FOREIGN PRESS ORGANISATIONS, AT THE HEIGHT OF THE MIGRATION CRISIS WHICH HAD STARTED IN 2002. Continue reading

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Christmas service accidentally prints words to Tupac’s ‘Hail Mary’ instead of carol

  Around 1,000 programmes containing explicit lyrics shared at one of the biggest Catholic Christmas services in Sri Lanka https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/christmas-carol-service-mixup-accidentally-publishes-rap-song-hail-mary-tupac-columbo-sri-lanka-a7494956.html%3Famp?client=safari

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Accountants and spies: The secret history of Deloitte’s espionage practice

The story of a Deloitte Intelligence team, which was a mixture of former government spies and accounting industry veterans. People who had jumped out of helicopters worked alongside people who rarely even jumped out of their office chairs. Read more … Continue reading

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Three productions shot in Malta premiered during Christmas period

Malta has served as a shooting location for such historical action/adventures and dramas as Gladiator, The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), and Troy over the past fifteen years, in addition to having been used in such recent globe-trotting thrillers as … Continue reading

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2016’s long roll of famous deaths

a selected list of famous figures who left us in 2016. Continue reading

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George Michael has died peacefully at home aged just 53 – Mirror Online

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MRIEHEL BYPASS RENAMED AFTER FAMOUS MALTESE REGIMENT

HERE IS SOME PLEASANT NEWS FOR THIS FESTIVE SEASON: From the Secretary of the 3/11 Regiment RMA (T) Association Dear all, I wish you and your families a Happy Christmas and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year. Now I have … Continue reading

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BEST WISHES FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON

I know that I haven’t dedicated much time and deserved attention to posting blog entries and updates with reviews or critiques of things and events catching and itching my eye and interest. Am bringing myself to some form of resolution … Continue reading

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