Gibraltar made all of us grow

Dear Sir,

Thank you Gibraltar and thank you all Gibraltarians who made the NatWest International Island Games a week of sport, competition and friendship we will never forget. You opened your home and your hearts and made us all feel special and as a part of you. You are a small nation with a gigantic heart.  Read more

Tanker issue way over our heads

There’s no way of whitewashing, downplaying or making the current security situation any less intimidating, then what I believe, is the current situation, where the Gibraltar public have often, not just now, been misled where ‘Security Threat Levels’ are concerned. Particularly in the last two weeks or since the Grace 1 Iranian tanker came into our lives. Read more

The EU is no more ethical than an Old Boys Network

The EU; an organisation which we had held in high regard and notions of upstanding Europeans, with the highest set of values and principles; much to our chagrin, we have found out that it’s no more ethical than an Old Boys Network! As the French politician Djordre Kuzmanic puts it “those who believe in Democracy should aim at tearing the EU down, not reforming it!”  Read more

Why don’t they accept our money?

Dear Sir,

RE PANORAMA REPORT: GIBRALTAR COINS ARE NOT LEGAL OUTSIDE GIBRALTAR

I write to you regarding the above matter.  Read more

Victoria Keys to terrible stench

Having a walk around the site of the proposed new development to he called VICTORIA KEYS, I noticed a terrible stench in the atmosphere of rotten fish. On exploring further, I noticed that a number of huge pontoons full of dead mussels attached to their underside have been left for months on end to rot in the sun.  Read more

A Tale of Two Enclaves

by KEN WESTMORELAND

Whenever people in the UK, racked with colonial guilt, complain about British sovereignty over Gibraltar, those better informed will point out that Spain has sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, and that Morocco objects to that as well. Unfortunately, there seems to be a belief among Guardian and Independent readers that it’s only colonialism when the British do it.  Read more

It might all get very sticky

Having seen recently on the news, the disdain and lack of respect with which the EU leaders treated the Prime Minister Theresa May at the G Summit, their behaviour towards us in the recent past does not surprise me anymore. Their loutish manner at the photo call was a disgrace; so much for their European standing. It was most definitely a brush off in the worst possible taste that I have witnessed in years. It denoted an air of bullishness come brusqueness, born out of a deep dislike for a woman who, after all, tried so hard to appease them.  Read more

The British Government must address our concerns

Ours is a story that is lasting far too long. To take a Shakespearian phrase from Hamlet; it has become “weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. I’m referring to of course, that which is entwined with Spain’s absurd and outdated demands for sovereignty. The harsh reality is that if we don’t this time around, capture the UK Government’s complete attention, I feel we are going to reach a point where we never will.  Read more

COMPANY STATEMENT RESPONDING TO GSD STATEMENT REGARDING STREET CLEANING AND CONTRACT:

We are aware that Politics will be Politics and that this year will be an election year. It is well known that politicians will raise their own view on public matters. However we take exception to references made to Britannia by the GSD.  Read more

Take cover, el sporting world is coming to our Gibraltar

Blimey, con el sporting ministron de Linares, he thinks que sportsmen from the whole wide world will be coming to Gibraltar to make use of our new equipment, as if the world did not have what we are going to have now.  Read more

Hong Kong and Gibraltar similarities...

What is happening in Hong Kong at present is very telling is it not? Ceded to Britain by China in 1842; this once small “strategic” territory was under British rule. Then, after 156 years it reverted to Chinese sovereignty on the first of July 1997. This action taken, I have to add, was not at all popular with its citizens who never wished to be part of Mainland China and tried their best to fight against it.  Read more

No closure and no change

“The new world of Spain”; “The new Spaniards”; how many articles in magazines or journals have we come across with similar titles? All carrying stories which are appealing and interesting, because Spain, is after all, one of the oldest nation-states in Europe whose history is enveloped in countless conquests; whose deep rooted traditions have been the subject of passionate relates; whose bloody Spanish Civil War ignited such interest, that for the first time in the history of the world, its propaganda played a greater part than even the fight itself.  Read more

It's like selling the Crown Jewels

Dear Sir,

I was listening to the Budget on T.V. that the GSLP and Liberal are going to sell the other 50% of some of the new buildings that they have built to a private equity company. When the young Gibraltarians that bought their first properties, they bought thinking that the other half was going to be owned by the Gibraltar Government. But now appears that the Government will be selling the other 50% off, this can’t be right. How can a Government sell their assets which are really supposed to be looked after and cherished by the Government?  Read more

Commiserations, Your Excellency

Dear Sir,

On Friday 14th June GBC Newswatch at 19.30 hrs, repeated of course at 23.00 hrs, during their coverage of Her Majesty’s traditional Birthday parade at Casemates ‘demoted’ His Excellency LT GENERAL Edward Davis CB CBE to LIEUTENANT Edward Davis.  Read more

No room for Action for Housing

Dear Sir,

Due to the non-availability of meeting rooms at the John Mackintosh Hall on account of urgent use for other events including the Island Games, Action for Housing will not be meeting at their usual venue until Monday 29th July 2019. 

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No room for Action for Housing

Dear Sir,

Due to the non-availability of meeting rooms at the John Mackintosh Hall on account of urgent use for other events including the Island Games, Action for Housing will not be meeting at their usual venue until Monday 29th July 2019. 

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To whom it may concern

Dear Sir,

Just a thank you note to the GHA for the well run hospital under its responsibility.

I have been for a month a patient at the wards John and Capt. Murchison and I must say that both professionals and future qualified nursing personnel, have a very pleasant attitude towards the sometimes “difficult” patient.  Read more

We must not forget our roots; we must not forget theirs

Franco’s signature continues to be written all over the country he ruled. By ensuring that the wounds left by the Civil War remain open so long, he appears to have inoculated his fellow Spaniards with the very intolerance he came to symbolize. Many of us wonder how this former dictatorship can be judged to have become a democracy. The thing is that democratisation in Spain is not set in stone as in other civilized and modern countries, but can be undone. Their democracy, like freedom and equality, is very much a matter of degree.  Read more