I salute Richard Cachia Caruana as a man of great vision, courage and integrity. Malta will rue the day he was hounded from office – a day that will long live in infamy. He deserved far, far better than this.
There is a saying that in politics, while your opponents are in front of you, your enemies are behind you. So it was on this occasion. Those on the government benches who refused to back him acted with incredible stupidity. Terms like ‘vindictive’, ‘self-serving’ and (more to the point) ‘suicidal’ come to mind – but above all stupidity: plain and simple stupidity.