“I am the cleaner here.”

A woman at Construct Furniture when asked for the contact details of the proprietor’s son Fernando Agius, who featured in the Prime Minister’s New Year’s message – it turned out the couple did not benefit from Labour’s first-time buyers scheme, as claimed.


“Absence of rainfall will mean higher salt content in the water table.”

Farmers Central Cooperative president John Gauci warning that the dry spell meant farmers would be pumping more water from boreholes, in turn compromising the water table.


“She wanted to see the world.”

Daryl Cauchi lamenting the death of his adventurous girlfriend Johanna Boni who died after her motorcycle collided with a cement mixer in Naxxar.


“Whoever was behind the attack seemed aware of the gas cylinders.”

Investigation sources on their belief that the bomb placed outside the garage door of Sandro Ciliberti – who runs a Comino kiosk – could have had worse consequences. Four gas cylinders be­hind the door were dented by the blast.


“We’ll do whatever it takes to stop it.”

Merchants Street business community president Anthony Camilleri pledging to continue fighting the relocation of the monti further up the street, even though the court did not issue an injunction.


“We’re a Catholic family... It was a genuine plea. We just want our son back.”

Kate Holmes, mother of Daniel – jailed for 10 years for cannabis offences – retracting a claim that holy man Frenċ tal­-Għarb used the drug to heal people.


“So many bureaucratic processes.”

GRTU president Paul Abela defending the owners of Pama Shopping Village who opened without a trading licence.

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