Quotes of the week

"Don't you dare come to Msida. I'm serious... if you don't like it don't pass through Msida."

Vince Azzopardi, Msida band club president, warning people that the locality's arterial roads will be closed for the feast.

"Why does my family have to put up with... the inconvenience of closed arterial roads?"

An Msida resident complaining about traffic detours and that his house shook every time a petard went off to celebrate the feast of the town's patron saint.

"Liberalisation in a limited market will lead to disaster."

Victor Spiteri, Transport Federation chairman, on the government's decision to reform the transport sector.

"Trapping in Malta has to stop at the end of this year."

European Commission officials reacting to Ornis's recommendation to the government to allow trapping beyond the end of this year.

"Ulysses, come save Calypso for she is being raped."

The plea on a placard held by environmentalists protesting against a proposed tourism complex in Ramla l-Ħamra, Gozo.to the government's decision to increase the fuel surcharge.