Carmen Gómez is a columnist with Panorama.
She is an actress, known for Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974), Doctor Who (1963) and The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979).
07/05/2020 - 10:01
This is the question on many people’s lips around the world; a question which they may well want an answer to, from their respective Governments. For after listening to their proposed plans, many are not getting what the point of the plans actually is. For some Governments it can be an ultimate agenda, or the desired consequence of a planned series of events, often elaborate and unknown to outsiders. Read more
06/05/2020 - 09:28
Very good news
There are high hopes for a covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University Scientists. They have begun clinical trials which have shown promise in rhesus monkeys that after been given the vaccine, have remained healthy, despite a heavy exposure to the virus. Read more
04/05/2020 - 10:11
An extract from the summer of 1964, tells of how Joshua Hassan was preparing for the United Nations debate. “He organised and led the drafting by a committee composed of all the elected members of the Legislature, of a short, well-argued and telling pamphlet called “The future of Gibraltar,” which was sent to all the members of the committee of 24, together with an album of photographs of Gibraltar.” Read more
29/04/2020 - 09:34
Animals not in captivity
It’s is not only the environment that is welcoming the lack of traffic and the lack of activity out at sea. Schools of dolphins have been seen in nearby Spain enjoying the ocean at their ease. Read more
24/04/2020 - 09:05
As a daily routine to get the heart pumping and the knees in shape, having walked down our four flights of steps, I started the uphill climb perusing on those words uttered by so many supposedly knowledgeable people out there; people who have been telling the world that a highly contagious virus was going to descend upon us in the not too distant future. Two questions hammered in my head “How did they know?” and “why did no one pay attention to their warning?” Read more
22/04/2020 - 09:55
What it means to be one step ahead
When hopefully our present predicament is over, and we look back on this challenging chapter of our lives, we may well realize that compared to much more powerful and greater nations than us, Gibraltar has stood its ground well. We may be a small nation; but a discerning one and sagacious in struggles. Read more
20/04/2020 - 09:37
Whilst we were unawares, someone took the breaks off and sent us hurtling towards the unknown, with a virus hot on our heels; and no time to heed the request of the whiting to the snail to “walk a little faster,” because he had a porpoise treading on his tail. We were going too fast and we needed to slow down and get our breath back. Read more
15/04/2020 - 09:36
No gain without pain
Remember the days when in every broadcast on Spanish TV there was the inevitable section dedicated to the millions of tourists who were coming to their shores and how the occupancy of hotels were full etc etc? Read more
03/04/2020 - 09:16
Musing on life as one tends to do particularly when faced with a panorama never before envisaged; it is easy to lose the thread somewhat, on account of the surreal circumstances we find ourselves in. At such a time it is quite normal to ask, “How on earth did we get here?” when looking not just at ourselves, but the world in general. I must admit that watching the news on Sky TV sometime back, I witnessed Chinese people walking about with face masks in their daily fog soup; just like in the pictures of the old Jack the Ripper movies; and one of them, on being asked how he felt about the intense contamination around them, simply mumbled “at least I have work.” In other words, this man had come to a point of no return. Read more
01/04/2020 - 10:15
Behind Covid-19, opportunity lurks for the business world
In the paroxysms of wars and pandemics, depressed markets offer opportunities which lurk for those who profit from them. Read more