Quotes of the week

"To Philip from Doris."
The wording on the parcel bomb left behind the door of Philip Cini's home in Qormi before Christmas - it left the 60-year-old battling for his life. His wife Doris had warned him not to open it.

"Highest in Europe."
Chamber of Small and Medium Enterprise, GRTU, director general Vince Farrugia on the revised water and electricity rates.

"If the explosive had gone off... it would have been a national disaster."
Diving instructor Antonio Anastasi on the fishing bomb discovered on the popular Um El Faroud diving site.

"What's essential, people's lives or superfluous projects?"
A 44-year-old cancer victim, who needs €70,000 a year to survive, calling on government to pay for expensive drugs rather than blow money on inaugurating squares.

"Most of the tuna are dead or escaped out to sea."
Ta' Mattew Fish Farms owner Ray Bugeja on how gale force winds wrought havoc on a tuna farm causing a loss of €7.4 million.

"The hospital is not for black people, but only for Libyans."
A migrant's story, on how he was denied medical care, published in a report by the Jesuit Refugee Service.