"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 Ministry on MSF's charge that health problems that immigrants faced were down to Malta's detention policy.

"Close them down."

Parliament's Social Affairs Committee's advice to the government on illegal gaming arcades mushrooming across the island.

"He was not just a boy we hosted, but our son."

Grace Pace, on Maxim Vorobyev, the 16-year-old Russian orphan she fostered, whose body was dragged from Valletta harbour 10 days after he was reported missing.

"Spring hunting in Malta is finished."

A European Commission official warning the government not to give in to pressure from the hunting lobby as otherwise Brussels would have no option but to ask the European Court of Justice to take action against Malta.

"It is very normal for patients to wait in the pantry."

Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses president Paul Pace complaining about what patients at Mater Dei Hospital were facing before being transferred to the operating theatre.