“I wish the Church could have contributed more.”

Archbishop Paul Cremona explaining the Church’s duty to financially support the anti-divorce campaign – it donated €180,000.

“Malta’s ability to absorb migrants in the long-term remains limited, whatever we say.”

Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici on how open centres had to help people move on at the earliest opportunity so as not be “get stuck” in the same place.

“We left without having our most important question answered.”

An Air Malta employee after a meeting with the company’s top management, intended to provide workers with answers, failed to say if they would still have a job.

“Two types of bite mark: the aggressive and the intimate.”

Forensic expert Mario Scerri revealing disturbing evidence in the case of the Russian woman found murdered in Xemxija where mother and daughter had numerous love bites belonging to each other on their bodies.

“Religio et Patria is an outdated, almost fascist slogan.”

Former government adviser Martin Scicluna urging the Nationalist Party to drop its emblem carrying this Latin phrase – religion and country – which PN leader Lawrence Gonzi proudly highlighted at the general council.

“Exaggerated animal cruelty.”

Magistrate Edwina Grima handing down her verdict in the case of Alfred Vella who admitted to having shot the dog Star with a homemade gun.