“There was no reasonable suspicion that Norman Vella had committed a crime.”

Magistrate Marseanne Farrugia as she ruled that the immigration official and former TV presenter should have his phone and tablet returned, after they were confiscated by the police following a report that he had taken photographs of two Government communications coordinators in a restricted airport zone.


“This is the lowest of the lowest court.”

Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit on a magistrate’s decision in the Norman Vella case.


“We’re giving you the world, don’t muck it up.”

MHRA president Tony Zahra addressing ITS students on Tuesday.


“We have to see whether our relationship can continue.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat does little to dampen speculation that Arriva may be ready to pull the plug on its Malta operation.


“Every prime minister in Europe has admitted to smoking a joint at one time or another”.

Legal aid lawyer Joseph Ellis in his courtroom plea for leniency for his two Sicilian clients who were facing up to 10 years in jail for sharing a spliff in Paceville.


“This isn’t over. It may seem like it now but it’s not.”

Marzena Holmes, the wife of Daniel Holmes, after her husband’s 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence for cannabis offences was confirmed by the court of appeal.


“A new ‘class’ of citizen will be created by this ill-conceived scheme.”

Opposition leader Simon Busuttil voices concern over the Government’s plan to sell Maltese citizenship, which the Nationalist Party has strongly opposed.

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