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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