“The Prime Minister was clear: the party cannot continue to bend over backwards to appease him.”

Nationalist Party sources giving an insight into the Prime Minister’s decision to call MP Franco Debono’s bluff and forge ahead with the government’s parliamentary agenda.


“You presented me with a sword that will draw blood wherever it pierces.”

Madam Justice Abigail Lofaro on the legal battle brought before her where a five-year-old Eritrean was torn bet­ween her biological family who was being relocated to Switzerland and her Maltese carer.


“Accessibility is a life link for Gozitans.”

Justice Minister Chris Said highlight­ing the “tremendous” impact the pro­­­posed underwater tunnel bet­ween the two islands would have on Gozitans.


“There is the practice of disturbing an area earmarked for protection to then start filing piecemeal applications eating away at our land.”

Planning Authority chairman Austin Walker, during the Portomaso extension project, lamenting the general situation where projects start off with one footprint but spread into undeveloped land.


“A cabbage from Cospicua.”

An insult former police inspector Jeffrey Cilia hurled at Police Commissioner John Rizzo during a drunken rampage.


“I will continue fighting until there is no one on that waiting list.”

Sarah Borg, who had started a drive to find a kidney donor for the father of her son Chris Bartolo, on her mission to help those with renal failure.

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