Nationalist Party’s Robert Arrigo dies at age 67

Oct 18 2022

Robert Arrigo has sadly passed away at the age of 67.

Friends, family and members of the Nationalist Party are mourning the loss of former Deputy Leader and MP, whose death was announced earlier today.

Multiple media platforms and local personalities took to social media to celebrate the life of the politician, former Sliema mayor and president of Sliema Wanderers.

Amongst others, current Nationalist Party Leader Bernard Grech and former leader and current MP Adrian Delia shared a few words of praise towards Arrigo, who gave many years of service towards the party.

RIP Robert Arrigo.

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Happy 44th birthday Lydia Abela – Who is Lydia?

Oct 18 2022

The wife of Prime Minister Robert Abela and mother to the adorable Giorgia Mae, Lydia Abela, is celebrating her 44th birthday today.

Born in 1978 to a ship engineer and a housewife from Bormla, Lydia is one of 5 siblings. Her sisters Darleen and Alison were highly involved in the local political sphere and were a big part of the Bormla local council history.

As for Lydia herself, she met her husband Robert whilst studying law at the University of Malta. Her mother Emmanuela had explained to ONE in an interview that the first time Robert met the family was when he delivered some law books to their house, using the excuse that Lydia couldn’t drive.

The two got married on the 19th of October 2008, just one day after Lydia’s 30th birthday. Their daughter Giorgia Mae was born four years later.

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Lydia herself graduated with a Masters in maritime law and began work at George Abela’s, Robert’s father, law firm.

Becoming Robert’s colleague, she entered the political scene in 2010 when the Labour Party appointed her executive secretary. Through her position she went on to advocate for various causes ranging from women’s rights to environmentalism and many others.

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Mural in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia erected at UOM

Oct 17 2022

In memory of the late journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated five years ago, the Kunsill Studenti Universitarji have unveiled a mural by Amy Aquilina, Alessia Cacciatore, & Rasha Belle Zammit Cutajar to commemorate the journalist on the university campus.

The mural will be commemorated by ‘all the current and future students, academics, staff and visitors as a symbol that the University’s ethos ties in with the Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press.’

Daphne was assassinated on the 16th of October 2017, after a bomb was detonated whilst she was driving her car in the vicinity of her Bidnija home.

For the fifth year anniversary since her assassination, crowds met near her Bidnija home and later in Valletta in a demonstration in honour of her work and journalistic contribution to rule of law on the island.

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5 snacks from our childhood which get us nostalgic AF

Oct 17 2022

Nostalgia is a powerful thing and if you really think about it, you probably wouldn’t be able to think of someone who doesn’t enjoy sitting back and thinking of the good old days.

Of all the childhood memories we hold closely to our heart, snacks and candy seem to be amongst to most vivid of images we can remember and, that being said, here are 5 snacks from our childhood which get us nostalgic AF.

Hay Hay

If you didn’t have one of these in your lunchbox as a kid, did your parents really love you? This classic chocolate biscuit is one of the most iconic snacks of the 2000s and if you don’t remember packing one of these in your satchel, you missed one this era’s best snacks.

Candy UFOs

Remember buying these at 5c each from Mużew? Well we do! The polarising sweet and sour satellite snacks would be in a large plastic tub by the hundreds and if no one stopped us, we would easily devour the entire tub on our own.

Pic-Nic Break

I mean, Nutella & GO is a classic but nothing really screams ‘the 2000s’ like the Pic-Nic Break chocolate cream sticks. The handy plastic cylinder would house a few crunchy breadstick-like snacks and a chocolate dipping sauce and if you had one of these, you were truly the life of the party.

Candy ‘cigarettes’

Speaking of forbidden fruit… one of the most controversial snacks of the 2000s, the candy ‘cigarettes were thin, chalky sticks of sugar packaged in a small matchbox-like. Eventually, some countries and states banned the sale of this candy while others eventually saw it phase out of the market.

Pop Rocks

Whether it was an innocent childhood prank between friends or just euphoric enjoyment of the sweet candy popping in our mouths, Pop Rocks were a forbidden fruit for some for the amount of sugar that comes with consuming the snack. Fortunately, we’d manage to sneak in a packet every now and then.

Which childhood snack was YOUR favourite?

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