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Insight to the silent world

Dear Sir,

On Saturday 1st February a Deaf Gibraltarian lady, Maite Facio-Beanland, stood in front of a predominantly hearing audience and gave us an insight to the Silent World of a Deaf person. It was a courageous and sincere expose of the life of many deaf people in the world which was succinctly delivered through a BSL interpreter and we the Brugada family warmly congratulate her for the uninhibited and relaxed style in which she delivered it. Well done Maite.  Read more

Airport Runway: Getting lax with our security

Recently, we were crossing the runway on our way back from shopping at a local supermarket, when we saw a couple of young Spanish men walking nonchalantly further and further into the airfield, away from the paths demarcated for both pedestrians and bicycles.  Read more

Sceptical not scaremongering

Dear Sir,

Reading the letter from Emilio Reyes, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. If this is a response to my letters from a few months ago, why has it taken him or any of his colleagues so long to respond? Even if you don't have internet access in Gibraltar, Panorama is readily available in print. And he claims to be a member of the Representation in Westminster Group - isn't it supposed to be a Movement? Previously it was the Integration With Britain Movement, though it is not so much a case of old wine in new bottles, given that wine improves with age, so much as stale or mouldy bread in new wrapping, inedible however it looks on the outside.  Read more

This petition should not be ignored

Dear Sir,

I have been reading one or two scaremongering letters, which seem to say that a democratic petition signed by an electoral Gibraltarian majority should be ignored.

Gibraltarians are not fools, when they sign something they are fully aware of what it means for their future.

We all know we need to start determining our future, a secure one, for our future generations.  Read more

Is anyone listening?

There will be times when you may have wondered if anyone out there is listening; if anyone is taking things in; because even when in the company of others, this appears not to be the case. How many times have you found yourself in someone’s company, say having coffee, and when you are about to respond to the question “so tell me, how have you been?” someone else approaches the table and addresses the person sat opposite you.  Read more

We must stop dragging our out of date baggage behind us

Now that the foreign affairs committee of the Moroccan parliament have passed two laws to “re-actualize” the limits of its territorial waters; aimed to assert its sovereignty over its entire maritime coasts; perhaps its time for us to once again urge the UK Government to do likewise. Read more

It’s for Great Britain to find a solution

Not wishing to dwell too much on the subject, nevertheless the issue needs our attention because it causes unrest in our midst, and like a cancer, can spread through a country where at present there is great dissatisfaction with its lot. I speak of the party Vox; a party whose leaders are concerned with flattering the prejudices of the mob, and their own. Some time back, the Spanish people were more or less content with their circumstances, because they were resigned to a restricted and artificial range of emotions, taking things as they found them.  Read more

Gibraltar must help Australia NOW

Australia is suffering a never-ending forest fire. Over a million animals have died and hundreds of homes destroyed. People have also died and there is no sign of this curse subsiding.

Australia was the only country at the United Nations in 1965-1966 that spoke in favour of our decolonisation and against the Spanish insistence that we be handed over to Spain.  Read more