“I often teased him that he must have been a difficult Cabinet colleague... he would smile and remind me George Borg Olivier used to call him his Leader of the Opposition.”

Mikela Fenech Pace, granddaughter of former President Ċensu Tabone who died last week, reminiscing about her “nannu’s” convictions.


“He was the most brilliant brain I’ve ever come across and his heart was blessed with a kindness I don’t think I’ve ever seen in anybody.”

Architect Richard England, des­cribing the traits of his childhood friend Fr Peter Serracino Inglott, who died from a rare degenerative brain disease.


“So far... the men involved do not appear to have known each other.”

Assistant Police Commissioner Pierre Calleja giving a press conference on the mystery shrouding the Marsascala murder that left one man dead and two wounded.


“I want to hit my father with a shoe and throw him out of the window.”

A five-year-old girl confiding in a social worker after enduring horrific systematic physical abuse from her adoptive father.


“We speak about the wounds not only to expose them but to heal them.”

Caritas director Mgr Victor Grech on his organisation’s mission and mandate to expose the reality of poverty and insisting that the minimum wage must rise.


“...To ensure this controversy will in no way tamper the council’s work.”

Sliema councillor Julian Galea ex­plaining why he resigned despite being re-elected after he was caught saying he had a phobia of Labourites.

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