"What has happened over the past year... has been truly extraordinary."

Bank of Valletta chairman Roderick Chalmers on the impact of the global financial crisis, which saw the bank's pre-tax profits drop by 60 per cent.

"Giant proportions..."

The Resources Ministry on the possibility of striking huge oil reserves, when drilling starts in two years' time.

"Let us unite in a national, non-political protest."

Labour leader Joseph Muscat calling for street protests against the new water and electricity tariffs.

"It would have been a miracle had we achieved the national average in Cospicua (primary)."

St Margaret College principal Sandro Spiteri is not surprised all Cospicua pupils failed the last Junior Lyceum exam.

"A stumbling block."

Archbishop Paul Cremona on how Catholics' sense of nostalgia about how the Church used to operate was hindering the path to new evangelisation.