His small business is characteristic of his talent and provides services in the advertising, printing and public relations field. Ray also edits Malta's first bi-monthly glossy travel magazine, THE GLOBE TROTTER, which has nation-wide distribution through the leading English newspaper, THE SUNDAY TIMES.

His poetry, essays, and short stories have been published by over 70 different small press publishers, locally and in Sicily, the UK, Scotland, Ireland, France, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Argentina. His first collection of poems, WITHIN THE EDGES OF IMMORTALITY was published in 1992, followed by POIGNANT VOICES, a second collection, launched by 1st Books online publishers, USA in 1999. BROKEN INNOCENCE was his latest collection published in the UK by Forward Press, under their imprint, Slim Volumes last year. His latest successful publication activity has seen his contribution of several short ghost stories to THE INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF HAUNTED PLACES, being published by Penguin Books in Putnam in the USA.

He is member of various literary organisations, including the Canadian Poetry Association, the Society of American Poets; the National Authors' Registry, the Poetry Society, the Capricorn International Authors' Guild and the Freelance Press Services in the UK. He was appointed Fellow of the International biographical Association in Cambridge, UK in 1992. Between 1995-97 he was also the Malta delegate for the European Union Association for the Promotion of Poetry (EAPP) in Brussels, Belgium. Later, he was also appointed representative of Poeziecentrum in Ghent, Belgium in 1997. He is also the Malta representative for HAUNTED SCOTLAND.