12/08/2020 - 09:09
Promoting Gibraltar for birdwatching and bird migration
The Gibraltar Tourist Board is exhibiting at the first Virtual Birdfair which went live on August 5th and will run until August 23rd. Exhibitor “stands”, include organisations and charities normally present at the live event. Read more
11/08/2020 - 12:05
Tuesday 11th August 2020
Total tests done: 25,012
Test results pending: 3
Test results received: 25,009
Confirmed cases: 202 Read more
11/08/2020 - 09:07
GHA in post-Covid traumatic stress - So where’s the public inquiry?
Over four months ago, the public were first told by the government, that when the Covid health emergency was over they were committed in holding a public inquiry which would look at the way the COVID-19 pandemic was handled. Read more
11/08/2020 - 09:05
Vehicles used for hachis
A man and a woman have been arrested in Algeciras for storing four vehicles ready for the use of transporting hachis. Read more
11/08/2020 - 08:59
By KEVAN KENNEDY
Eight scientists, many of which are students, have been at the frontline of Covid-19 testing. Dr. Zoé Vincent-Mistiaen’s team (which only began as a small team including herself and Edward Cruz Cerveca) have kept up an extraordinary pace of work ensuring a ensure a high frequency output of 450 swabs per day – over 1% of the population. Read more
10/08/2020 - 12:26
Monday 10th August
Total tests done: 24,469
Test results pending: 3
Test results received: 24,466
Confirmed cases: 201 Read more
10/08/2020 - 08:47
The Government continues to plan for all eventualities as negotiations continue to define a future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union before the transitional period comes to an end on 31 December. In this context, the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia held a meeting of the Brexit Strategic Group late last week in order to provide added impetus to plans for no agreement between the parties. Read more
10/08/2020 - 08:45
The Information Commissioner of the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority has issued the Royal Gibraltar Police (the “RGP”), with a fine of £5,000 in consequence of the unlawful disclosure of personal data, relating to approximately 40 individuals, in breach of data protection legislation. Read more
10/08/2020 - 08:45
‘Constitutional Reform’ is one of those subjects that crops up from time to time. Normally causing a bit of a dust-storm and then quietly fizzles out into nothing, until its mentioned again in party manifestos. But mostly, to fill pages about something important, which over the past 10 years or so have come to nothing. Read more
10/08/2020 - 08:43
“The perfect thing about art is how imperfect it can be”
by KEVAN KENNEDY
Should one walk through the tunnel at Cooperage lane towards Chatham Counterguard, you will see Conor’s art. The mural there certainly turned “a very dull area into something bright”, enriching the usual concrete drab of Gibraltar’s city landscape. Read more