“Whoever wants to contribute should be given the chance to do so.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat defending his decision to give disgraced Gozo Channel chairman Joseph Grech a second chance by engaging him as an adviser to the ferry company.


“They were either well briefed or had been observing us closely.”

A white taxi driver mulling over the botched hold-up on the airport grounds when masked robbers tried to steal €60,000 – taxi drivers’ earnings – from Louis Sammut, 64. His driver was shot at.


“Many towns and villages have been ruined because successive governments have allowed basic rules... to be broken with impunity.”

Philosopher and aesthetics lecturer Joe Friggieri lamenting decades of disregard for basic architecture rules of size and proportion.


“Not built according to the approved designs.”

Planning Parliamentary Secretary Michael Farrugia revealing that the eyesore built in Rudolph Street, Sliema, marring the streetscape of a row of townhouses, was not in line with the approved permit.


“A pastoral urgency.”

Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna insisting that hatred against irregular immigrants was a worrying phenomenon the Church had to address.


“When he died last year, even his adversaries felt his loss.”

Sculptor Noel Galea Bason explaining why he chose to depict former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff in a calm, reflective pose – his design won.


“The Maltese mentality often sees trees as inconveniences.”

Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar coordinator Astrid Vella lamenting society’s attitude to trees after a number were blatantly butchered a boys’ school in Ħamrun.

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