“He wanted me to listen to one of his songs… I later learnt it was Space Oddity.”
Gynaecologist Donald Felice reminiscing about his student days strumming the guitar with a lesser-known David Bowie, who was on the island for the Malta International Song Festival in 1969. The legendary artist died of cancer at the age of 69.
“When prices go up we will find ourselves in a bust scenario again.”
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat defending the government’s hedging policy as a model that assured stability in fuel prices as oil prices went below $30 a barrel.
“I will not be a mediator but a facilitator.”
Former president George Abela, who has been asked to co-chair an Air Malta committee, insisting he would not be involved in the airline’s commercial negotiations but was merely acting as a conduit between the unions and management.
“It has beautified the area.”
National Security Minister Carmelo Abela unfazed by criticism that the army’s new concrete sea base was blocking a stretch of the Floriana bastions from view.
“At least the Prime Minister didn’t go into any children’s bedrooms.”
Office of the Prime Minister employee Glenn Bedingfield taking a priest-child-abuse dig at the Archbishop who remarked about the Prime Minister’s New Year’s Day message, hoping the staged kitchen scene would be “real next time”.
“It’s legitimate to question whether the government intends to reopen trapping and spring hunting seasons… in view of these changes.”
Birdlife Malta chief executive Mark Sultana questioning the government decision to give hunters a five-year licensing window despite facing European Court of Human Rights procedures.
“This sense of panic does not and never did reflect reality.”
Integra director Maria Pisani on the rife xenophobia – L-Orizzont journalist Victor Vella received an anonymous letter warning him to take his “clandestine” children back to Mogadishu – despite dwindling migrant arrivals.