Stephen Young writes:
I was acquainted with Joe Caruana, known to his friends as ‘il-Currie’, in the late 1970s through family connections. I was immediately impressed by his stunning good looks, statuesque physique and charm.
Soon after, in 1979, Joe joined Air Malta as a trainee clerk, initially at the traffic services. But when he could not get used to night duties, he asked to be transferred to day work. Knowing that he was top of his class at the Air Malta trainee course, we managed to ‘poach’ him to work at the then administration department and he was assigned to work under me. Joe was quick on the uptake and a pleasure to work with. The only problem was that he attracted people like bees to honey, and I was always telling him off, not to detain people next to him.