“A tragedy of enormous scale.”

UNHCR Europe director Vincent Cochetel urging the EU not to bury its head in the sand and to find an adequate replacement for Italy’s Mare Nostrum rescue mission after at least 300 migrants died in rough seas.


“These were loopholes everyone knew existed.”

Revenue Commissioner Marvin Gaerty believes governments are partly to blame for turning a blind eye as banks exploited legal loopholes to stash billions of dollars in Swiss accounts.


“Absolutely no relevance.”

Former ECHR judge Giovanni Bonello insisting Malta’s neutrality should not stop the country from taking a stand in the international fight against terrorism.


“It is like they disappear... they will either be home sleeping... or working off the books.”

Education Minister Evarist Bartolo on how each year more than 300 16-year-olds vanish from school or employment records.


“Ignore these messages, and if you’re interested in IT, choose it.”

Businesswoman Claudine Cassar urging girls to ignore the negative messages that discourage them from choosing “boys’ jobs”.


“A disaster.”

Traffic expert Hugh Arnett lambasting Transport Malta’s decision to transform the busy road from Tigné to Gżira into one lane to make way for a bus lane.


“I’m not interested in what the court has to say. It can say what it likes.”

Veteran Labour MP Joe Debono Grech, who benefitted from a procedural error in the election vote coun­ting, indifferent to the Constitutional Court’s order for the Elec­toral Commission to start the pro­cess to elect two new Nationalist MPs.

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