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Gibraltar Must Step Up Its Covid-19 Testing

‘Without testing there is no Data’

There exist, some enigma surrounding the important issue of testing for Covid-19. For weeks, in my Panorama reports I have been critical how testing programmes have been slow to really get going, even after being told the opposite, at daily Covid briefings from 6 Convent Place. Read more

How on earth did we get here?

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

Help for the vulnerable

Dear Sir,

I am emailing from the Animals in Need Foundation. I saw that the Panorama was being distributed to the senior citizen's blocks and i was wondering if it would be possible to include a notice about our organisation as we are able to help vulnerable people with dog walking or temporary fostering if preferable. Read more

CARMEN GOMEZ DIARY

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

Living with memories of yesterday’s pleasures and a fear of tomorrow’s dangers

One minute I was looking at my parents and their friends, and wondering what it would be like to be as old as them; the next thing I knew, I was. Yet here we are, even more baffled by life than when we were small children, with our new found status; confined to barracks as soldiers in war time, and what’s worse, expecting to be on the front line! We find ourselves in this new found existence suddenly imposed on us for our good and that of our small nation; without the help of a vade mecum to guide us through our unchartered times. Read more

Amidst the sour disorder

I have previously written about how in the America’s, the arrival of Spanish conquistadores brought disease to many indigenous people who had no immunity to new infectious; and by exposing them to these they died in their thousands. Curiously, in my browsing recently through history, I came across a very similar scenario; except this time the happening was attributed to the English.  Read more

The warnings not heeded about the virus

CARMEN GOMEZ DIARY

Amongst the many cards and cuttings I keep; a habit I inherited from my Father who was forever being told off by mother when she was trying to dust around them; I came across a newspaper cutting of the photo of an eight year old boy; Martin Richard from Boston; who back in April 15th 2013, was killed by a bomb, as he waited for his father at a marathon finish line. For some reason I kept the cutting of his little face with his toothless smile; unawares that a year before, he had also held up a poster he’d made in school with the words “No more hurting people,” and below it, the word “Peace.” Ironical isn’t it and so tragic.  Read more

WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL OUR CHILDREN INHERIT?

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