"The decision does not mean spring hunting has been banned forever."
Lino Farrugia, secretary of the hunters' federation, reacts to the judgment taken by the European Court of Justice last Thursday that Malta breached EU laws between 2004 and 2007.

"As bad as a mosquito bite."
Vince Farrugia, director general of the Chamber of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises reacts to the sentences given to the first seven men who admitted to defrauding the VAT department.

"As a dominating majority in Malta, Catholics [have] a moral responsibility to take care of minority brothers and sisters from different faith backgrounds."
President of Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed welcomes the Maltese church's plans to teach schoolchildren about other faiths during religion lessons.

"You have done something very stupid and now your name will be in all the papers."
Magistrate Miriam Hayman addresses 58-year-old Rokku Mifsud, in court after he confessed to committing a lewd act as he sat in his van and watched a woman walk down the street.

"Our son was very lucky to have got away with bruises. But we are worried someone else's child might suffer a worse fate."
Roseann and Renald Caruana, whose 15-year-old son, Ryan, survived a storey-high drop into a Mellieha construction site.