Di-ve is five

www.di-ve.com is celebrating it's fifth birthday today. The popular internet news channel has often placed highly in independent market research and from the beginning was "determined to maximise on the strengths that the internet brings to journalism, those of allowing true multi-media presentations". The editor Paul Cachia today writes an assessment of the first five years:

In our first addition -- click here to see first articles -- apart from messages from Robin Cook on Malta's accession to the EU and a message from the President of Malta, we also launched the Joe Grima Live Show -- a 1 hour live streaming talk show in which Joe Grima aired his views over the Internet once a week, making a comeback after going through a very dark period in his life which we all know about . Today Joe Grima is well past those times, and back to his very busy self; however he still finds time to contribute with his inimitable pen through a weekly article. Thank you Joe Grima. Joe Grima's article on di-ve's 5th birthday.

The first www.di-ve.com journalist was still a University student when he was recruited. He put together the first version of di-ve and did a one man job to get us going. Today Kurt Sansone is a well known journalist with a local newspaper, as well as occasionally trying his luck at local council elections. Thank you Kurt Sansone. -- Read comment by Kurt Sansone.

President Emeritus Ugo Mifsud Bonnici about di-ve