Quotes of the week

"Full of factual mistakes..."
Former Labour leader Alfred Sant on the electoral post-mortem report, which he feels sheds no light on the party's defeat.

"...Answers to challenges cannot be the failed solutions of the past."
Labour leader Joseph Muscat reacting to Alfred Sant's remarks.

"Whoever committed this crime did so in a premeditated way."
Police Commissioner John Rizzo revealing that November's hit-and-run incident, which killed a 42-year-old Gozitan, was being treated as murder.

"It's like an organised robbery."
The daughter of Magic Kiosk owner Joe Pace on the government's decision to dismantle Sliema's controversial landmark.

"We are raping the value of L-Istrina... I felt like I sold my soul."
Gordon Pace, event organiser on behalf of Razzett tal-Hbiberija on how the programme's format defeated the spirit of charity.

"If I die, I will die... There is nothing I can do to stop it."
Sanaa El-Nahhal, a Maltese-Arab woman, on her trip to take medicine and food supplies to her family stuck in war-torn Gaza.