Quotes of the week

“One of the Prime Minister’s most loyal MPs.”

Nationalist MP Franco Debono, who risked toppling his own government, describing himself at the start of his parliamentary debate. He added he was “never given due credit”.

“No links of any kind, including sexual, between the Zammit family and Nicholas Gera.”

Assistant Police Commissioner Pierre Calleja, in the first press conference since the New Year’s Day double killings in Sliema, insisting there was no connection between Duncan Zammit, his wife Claire, and Mr Gera.

“They did not need to leave it to the fourth week to state they did not know anything.”

Nicholas Gera’s mother Tanya, who remains in the dark over her son’s motive, insisting it was high time police held a press conference to quell the speculation.

“I never imagined there could be such hatred.”

Businesswoman Grace Borg explaining why she went back on her decision to contest the general election on the Labour Party ticket 24 hours after timesofmalta.com announced her candidature.

“The people have lost faith in too many councillors.”

Sliema PN councillor Julian Galea accepting that dissolution was the only way forward after numerous members became the subject of police investigations.

“In discussions... to mitigate the visual impact.”

A Planning Authority spokesman confirming it was in talks to identify solutions to the new eight-storey judicial building in Valletta that has been slamm­ed as a sacrilege to the Unesco- protected city and its skyline.