Quotes of The Week
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Quotes of the week
"It is not true there is poverty in Africa." Nationalist MEP candidate Frank Portelli on his belief that African leaders are spending money on armaments rather than education. "A canine concentration camp." Noah's Ark animal sanctuary spokesman...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Italy cannot expect to solve its immigration problems by dumping them on Malta." Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici on the stand-off between Malta and Italy over where a boat of illegal migrants rescued near Lampedusa should be...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Quotes of the week
"I had prepared my handbag and a warm pair of pyjama trousers by the door just in case another quake hits." Miriam Xuereb, who was living in L'Aquila, Italy, when the earthquake that claimed nearly 300 lives occured, on her fear that more lay in...
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Quotes of the week
"What society are we building... when, blinded by prejudice, we depict as enemies or threats to national security people who need protection?" Gozo Bishop Mario Grech in a homily to mark the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, in which he criticised the...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Burden sharing is obviously not working."European Commission vice-president Gunther Verheugen on the principle adopted by the EU to share the problem of illegal immigration. "Surely bad publicity... but removing the weeds is always...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Malta should establish how many immigrants it can host... Numbers have to be sustainable." Labour leader Joseph Muscat in his advice to the government to tackle illegal immigration when he presented his action plan in Parliament. "What do I do if...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Appalling and inhuman." Médecins Sans Frontières coordinator Giuseppe de Mola saying MSF is withdrawing its service because of poor sanitary and inadequate facilities inside the detention centres. "Grossly misleading and unrealistic." Home Affairs...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Forced to choose between having a child and keeping their work."Malta Confederation of Women's Organisations chairman Anna Borg on how the disparities between women and men were causing a democratic deficit. "If I decided not to stand on the PN...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Send them back."Nationalist MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando's proposal on the illegal immigration problem. "This philosophy goes against Malta's international obligations."UNHCR representative Neil Falzon on the quick-fix solution, voiced by many, to...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Quotes of the week
"To ensure safety." Malta Transport Authority spokesman defending the decision to install new speed cameras on 10 major roads. "A speed of 60 km/hr is childish." Traffic expert Hugh Arnett on the new speed cameras, which he feels are cash traps and...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Quotes of the week
"It is sad when decisions are not allowed to be taken by professionals." St John's Co-Cathedral Foundation member Richard Cachia Caruana reacting to the decision to stop the underground museum project. "A U-turn which shows courage and...
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Quotes of the week
"It is just a shocking play aimed at an adult audience."Part of the judicial protest filed against the Board of Classifiers by the producers of the play Stitching. "He was killed for just three bags of mail."Prosecutor Aaron Bugeja on bank...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Government has not yet decided..." A Health Ministry spokesman on whether or not to introduce cervical and colorectal cancer screening programmes. "Substantial downsizing." STMicroelectronics chief financial officer Carlo Ferro confirming there...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Quotes of the week
"I'm still alive..."Norbert Schembri, who stabbed his former girlfriend 49 times, taunting his victim's family after he was sentenced to life in prison. "People living in Hal Far tents should not even stay there for a day..."UN working group...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Quotes of the week
"There is only one President and that is Eddie Fenech Adami." President-in-waiting George Abela asking journalists to refrain from asking for interviews until his nomination is approved by Parliament. "Shrouded by a thick veil of unaccountable...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Full of factual mistakes..."Former Labour leader Alfred Sant on the electoral post-mortem report, which he feels sheds no light on the party's defeat. "...Answers to challenges cannot be the failed solutions of the past."Labour leader Joseph...
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Quotes of the week
"Human life cannot be experimented with." Gozo Bishop Mario Grech on the recent debate on in vitro fertilisation. "The law of the jungle is unacceptable" Labour social affairs spokesman Michael Farrugia on the need to regulate artificial...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Quotes of the week
"A staff party turned into a Western-style shooting..." Mqabba Nationalist Party club barman Antoine Farrugia on how gunman Carmel Saliba returned in his vehicle and shot at the club's door. "It's a Christmas present." A woman reacting to the news...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Quotes of the week
"Christmas is an encounter with a newborn baby, wailing in a wretched grotto."Pope Benedict XVI on how Christmas should be as joyful an event as the birth of a child. "The vote is detached from the current economic climate."Malta Business Bureau...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Quotes of the week
"Let's not jump the gun..." Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi reminding journalists that Ireland's ratification of the Lisbon Treaty is not a foregone conclusion. "The directives were not discussed at council level before being issued." Malta Union of...