“Politically, these may now be dead men walking.”

Pro-divorce campaigner and former government adviser Martin Scicluna on how the “sizeable rump” of Cabinet ministers and Nationalist MPs flouted the will of the people by voting against the divorce Bill in the second reading.


“I swore on her grave... I would bring her murderers to justice.”

Charlie Galea, the brother of the Gozitan warden who was stabbed to death 10 years ago, reacting to the claim by convicted murderer Ġanni Attard that his human rights were breached when he had no access to a lawyer during police questioning.


“Somebody has to say that any blow could have killed me.”

GRTU director general Vince Farrugia in an SMS to his son and lawyer last year saying that if any witnesses testified in a “soft” manner they would make them and the police look like fools in the attempted murder case against Sandro Chetcuti.


“Notorious ineptitude of policing...”

Lawyer and father of four, Anthony Farrugia, slamming the lack of police presence in Paceville after his son was attacked by a gang after he intervened to return a bag the thugs had snatched from a tourist.


“We’re either going to do something or else act like children and take industrial action.”

Emergency Nurses Union president John Zammit complaining about the overcrowding at Mater Dei Hospital that keeps getting worse.


‘Maltese ‘Phantom’ MEP Gets Impatient.’

Headline of Brussels news­paper The European Voice, mocking the latest outburst by Lab­our MEP-in-waiting Joseph Cus­chieri for his wrong priorities.

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