“Enemalta is still in a bad shape. This agreement will help address this and provide consumers with a cushion.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat hailing the deal to buy oil, fuel and gas at discounted rates from Libya.

“Every breath he takes is a lie.”

Mona Camilleri, widow of convicted drug trafficker Mario – known as l-Imnieħru – hurling abuse at her brother Jason Galea who is accused of killing her husband and 21-year-old son.

“Monstrous.”

San Ġwann residents describing a contentious four-storey apartment block in the narrow Żbibu lane that got the green light from the planning authority.

“Politics is anathema to my work.”

Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit insisting he will never let politics interfere in his work after he was described as a “Labour activist” by Opposition leader Simon Busuttil.

“An unashamedly homophobic law.”

Aditus Foundation and the Malta Gay Rights Movement lambasting the Embryo Protection Act for denying access to medical services purely on the basis on sexual orientation.

“His expertise is a gold mine.”

Planning Parliamentary Secretary Michael Farrugia sees nothing wrong in appointing the Malta Pyrotechnics Association’s legal representative, Michael Falzon, to chair a planning authority working group on fireworks factories.

“It was like diving in a toilet.”

Belgian diver Itzy Herrero, who lives in Qala, expressing disgust at finding the idyllic Mġarr ix-Xini bay filled with sewage and rubbish.