“Having an honest government will benefit everyone except the corrupt.”
Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil in a fiery speech closing the PN’s general council.
“At first I thought it was something to do with the festa. But then we saw the whole of the canopy over the balcony collapse on the tables below.”
Peter Tolan, who was having dinner at the Barracuda restaurant, St Julian’s, describing when the restaurant’s balcony collapsed onto the restaurant below.
“Let’s face it, Sliema is practically ruined. Now, with these mega projects, it’s going to be a nightmare.”
Sliema resident Toni Buhagiar commenting on the two mega projects proposed for the Tigné area, a 40-floor hotel at Fort Cambridge and Townsquare.
“Apart from heading the most corrupt government in history, [Joseph] Muscat is now trying to buy votes for those who are manifestly not entitled to them.”
Nationalist Party deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami on a number of foreigners who bought Maltese citizenship and were given the right to vote despite not being residents in Malta.
“These people are not at risk of poverty. They are living in poverty.”
Caritas director Leonid McKay, on the plight of families with dependent children living on one minimum wage, during the launch of the NGO’s study entitled ‘A Minimum Essential Budget for a Decent Living’.
“We can’t have one skyscraper there, another one somewhere else. If we do, the whole traffic system, the whole infrastructure, the whole economic system, even, will collapse.”
Prominent architect Richard England on the lack of a master plan when it comes to mega projects such as the proposed developments in Tigné, Sliema.
“This stinks. It stinks of a pre-electoral deal and cannot be ignored. It must be investigated immediately.”
Shadow Justice Minister Jason Azzopardi commenting on media reports that Nexia BT auditors had set up an offshore structure for Cheng Chen, a representative of Shanghai Electric, which had purchased Enemalta for €320 million.