Quotes of the week

"I'm still alive..."Norbert Schembri, who stabbed his former girlfriend 49 times, taunting his victim's family after he was sentenced to life in prison. "People living in Hal Far tents should not even stay there for a day..."UN working group...

"I'm still alive..."
Norbert Schembri, who stabbed his former girlfriend 49 times, taunting his victim's family after he was sentenced to life in prison.

"People living in Hal Far tents should not even stay there for a day..."
UN working group rapporteur Manuela Carmena lambasting the government's detention policy for illegal immigrants.

"I don't have a mint."
Social Policy Minister John Dalli blaming the Finance Ministry for not issuing the €30 million owed to medicine importers.

"Children are sleeping together in the same room so that if they die, at least they die together."
Maltese Palestinian Sanaa El-Nahhal on what she witnessed when she crossed into Gaza with humanitarian aid.

"An afterthought..."
Occupational Health and Safety Authority CEO Mark Gauci on unions' attitude to safety at work.

"We need to see progress."
European Commission official on Malta's failure to provide national cancer screening programmes.

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