“Very strange.”

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi questioning Labour’s proposal to separate the environment from Mepa’s planning process.


“Something is happening which is uniting the people. If we abandon the past, the blue and the red, we can have a government for all.”

Labour leader Joseph Muscat commenting on the electoral campaign so far.


“Don’t do this to me, I have five children.”

The last words uttered by Yvette Gajda, 38, before she died from 60 stab wounds. Her Hungarian partner Laszlo Nandor Marton is charged with her murder.


“I think it’s time for the stipend money to be invested in funding research.”

Faculty of engineering dean John Betts urging political parties to scrap their pledges to maintain students’ stipends and instead pump the money into research and lab equipment.


“If foreigners want to see birds they can go to special places.”

FKNK president Joe Perici Calascione calling on the new government to prevent foreigners from roaming the countryside as they pleased.


“I won’t get her back... but as it is, it’s as though the court is telling him to do it again.”

Charles Xerri, who lost his 18-year-old daughter Yana in a traffic accident in 2010, expressing surprise at the sentence handed down to the drunk driver – a €6,600 fine and his licence suspended for three years.


“No comment.”

Former Prime Minister Alfred Sant in typical fashion refusing to say anything about the short film he will be featuring in, called Sant, Sant.

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