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Europe starts at the Pyrenees

Dear Sir,

Over the last few years, we have not ceased to hear the following statement from the Spanish authorities: "Catalan sovereignty wants to build new States and borders at a time when integration processes in supranational structures, such as the European Union in particular, are a sign of time".  Read more

Not two, but three players attempt checkmate

As Gibraltar moves closer to the new sewage plant being in action.

Spanish divers taking water samples from the sea in Palma say there are so many fecal remains it actually smells. “But it’s okay” someone says “the fish eat this”. So now we have reduced the fish diet to fecal remains and plastics. Because in Spain they are used to discarding their residues into their rivers and surrounding waters, and the regional municipalities are not for spending money clearing or purifying its rivers, they are now paying a hefty price for it. Due to recent heavy rainfalls many regions in Spain have sadly suffered not only the loss of lives; including that of hundreds of livestock; but of properties all through a lack of maintenance of their rivers.  Read more

Rambling by people who were completely out of their depth

Dear Sir,

Watching the Representation in Westminster Movement's interview on GBC Viewpoint was one of the most painfully embarrassing things I have seen since its members were prancing around outside 10 Downing Street delivering their much vaunted petition earlier this year, an event which, mercifully, went unnoticed in the UK media. It was mostly incoherent and inarticulate rambling by people who were completely out of their depth, dripping with sentimentality and reeking of misplaced entitlement, or what the Chief Minister recently called the 'a mi me pertenece' culture.  Read more

Election Call No Surprise

It was anticipated for weeks, many thought the 2019 election announcement was imminent, it was!

The election date has been set for Thursday 17 October, as stated, it did not surprise many people. Though I do believe, it may have taken one or two opposition party members on the hop or even off balance if echoes are correct!  Read more

OUR INDOMITABLE FAITH IN OURSELVES WILL PREVAIL

This, ladies and Gentlemen is what is remembered today in Spain under the heading “Gibraltar, the great shame of the false Spanish democracy”; concerning that fateful 8th of June of 1969 when Franco decreed the closure of the “Verja.” Not words of woe for their then 5,ooo families who would find themselves out of work and out of pocket; soon to lose homes they could not pay for; destitute; La Linea turning into a ghost town. Nothing like that expressed in said text; just talk of the thorn in the heart and dignity of Spain and words of repulsion towards their own; I quote “although there are many cowardly Spaniards who strive to say that Gibraltar must continue being British because there are thousands of Spaniards working on the Rock.”  Read more

Government Regeneration of Road to The Lines

Dear Sir,

With reference to the above recently published in the local media I would like to request the circulation of the following on behalf of our group:

We, at Action for Housing, note with much interest the Government’s recent public announcement on the “Regeneration of Road to the Lines” that will apparently yield 100 studio flats. The Government has described these as being for “low cost rental”.  Read more

We must never forget the inhumanity suffered from Spain - and ensure new generations don’t either

Promises may come and go; but in the bitter sweet message delivered by our Chief Minister on stage at Europa Point on Monday evening; before the commencement of one of the most beautiful and magical of nights Gibraltar has had the pleasure of experiencing of late; i.e. the Andrea Bocelli concert; I felt we should all of us, want to make the promise of never forgetting what the evening of such exquisite artistry was marking, which was our fifty years since the closure of the frontier.  Read more

Carmen Gomez Diary

Loss of women’s free voice

The freedom of speech that Pope Benedict and Pope Francis had so often advocated, has had to be abandoned in the matter of a magazine which was launched in 2012 called “Women, Church, World,” which comes in a monthly supplement in the Vatican daily paper.  Read more