07/10/2019 - 10:04
ELECTION 2019
By Paul Balban, GSLP Liberal Candidate
A great deal of difficult work has been carried out following the launch of the Sustainable Traffic Transport and Parking Plan (STTPP). Trying to improve our quality of life has required a challenge to the core of who we are as a people.
We love our cars, that is a fact. We have one of the highest vehicle ownership rates in the world, that is also a fact. Yet we are slowly seeing changes in the way that we move. Bus use has increased significantly and more people are walking and cycling to work and to school. Read more
07/10/2019 - 10:03
ELECTION 2019
By TREVOR HAMMOND, GSD candidate
For too long now our basic quality of life, our fundamental needs have been subordinated to rushed development, to serving the interests of the few over the needs of the many. The current Government has entirely lost sight of the basic requirements of this community, in its need to tick boxes, it fails to plan strategically and instead does everything piecemeal and in a reactive way. Read more
04/10/2019 - 10:10
ELECTION 2019
By DAMON BOSSINO, GSD candidate
Openness and transparency. Words much vaunted by politicians. Words used by the GSLP/Liberals when they ushered in their supposed ‘New Dawn’ in 2011. They have failed to deliver. Their atrocious lack of openness is reflected in how our public finances are handled and in the award of public contracts. I wish to tackle both issues with you today. Read more
04/10/2019 - 10:09
ELECTION 2019
by Vijay Daryanani, GSLP Liberal candidate
I am absolutely delighted and honoured to be given this opportunity to stand for elections as a GSLP/Liberal candidate on October 17th.
During this election campaign, you will see that over the last eight years the GSLP/Liberal Government has been successful in making huge strides on many fronts. Read more
03/10/2019 - 09:58
ELECTION 2019
by GILBERT LICUDI, GSLP Liberal candidate
Gibraltar has seen a transformational change over the last eight years. It is a change which benefits all generations. It is also a change that will leave a legacy for generations to come. The evidence is around us for all to see. Read more
03/10/2019 - 09:57
ELECTION 2019
By ORLANDO YEATS, GSD candidate
There was a time in Gibraltar, during the period in office of the GSD, when it was normal to see information in the press about the estimated cost of official projects or the proposed investment in infrastructure by the Gibraltar Government. Questions were answered in parliament and in general terms the media had access to information and the possibility of printing stories which could be openly critical or unsympathetic of the administration’s management of public affairs. Read more
02/10/2019 - 09:29
ELECTION 2019
By JOELLE LADISLAUS, GSD candidate
I was raised in a humble family who instilled core values of hard work, determination, tenacity and fairness in me. They have always ensured that I have remained grounded and that I never forget where I come from. Read more
02/10/2019 - 09:26
ELECTION 2019
By JOHN CORTES, GSLP/Liberal Candidate
It’s so easy to forget. Eight years ago, we had highly polluting power stations, no sewage treatment plant anywhere on the horizon, no recycling of paper, cardboard or glass, monkeys all over the place, no large green areas in the city centre and some of our wildlife on the point of disappearing. And as far as Climate goes, the Government didn’t even want it mentioned. Read more
30/09/2019 - 09:16
On the inside sleeve off my book “Memories bound up with life” is written; “at this moment I have felt inspired to wander back, rediscovering in the past a present to remember.” it has reminded me that looking back is healthy, because in so doing there are comparisons to be made between days gone by and now; comparisons which help us to see how far we have come on our journey through life; in the life of our small nation. In so doing, understand what strides we have made, but also what precious things have been lost along the way; like a code of conduct we all lived by which in modern times has lost its appeal, sadly. However, what I have found in rediscovering the past, is something that time has neither erased, nor been affected by the passing of the years; i.e. the determination of the Gibraltarians to live their lives as British citizens and survive any onslaught from Spain. Read more
23/09/2019 - 09:45
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
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