"Cars are nice and Jonathan loved them... but people out there need to learn how to drive carefully."
The mother of Jonathan Seychell who died, along with his girlfriend and their three-year old daughter, in a traffic accident in Zejtun last Wednesday.

"They took all I had."
Egyptian businessman Essam Bolous, who was robbed at gunpoint by four hooded men in Gudja last Thursday.

"Migrants have a fundamental right to life and this needs to be safeguarded by everyone."
Archbishop Paul Cremona speaking in the wake of claims made last week by five rescued Eritrean asylum seekers that they witnessed the death of 73 people on their dinghy.

"This should be acceptable from the European point of view, considering that, in November 2008, the member states agreed to take 10,000 Iraqi refugees based in Third-World countries."
Home Affairs Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici talking about the 2,000 immigrants Malta is hoping to resettle in other member states through the EU-wide relocation programme.

"We asked to meet the minister but never got a meeting."
Malta Association of Public Health Medicine president Julian Mamo speaking on behalf of some 20 doctors who were interviewed more than a year ago following a call for applications for consultants, but are still waiting for an answer.