04/08/2020 - 09:37
Sir Philip Barton has been named as the top civil servant at the new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Read more
04/08/2020 - 09:34
Scientists from the Gibraltar National Museum have collaborated with Iberian colleagues from the universities of Lisbon, Sevilla, Huelva, Coimbra and Barcelona in research which has just been published online in the international journal Quaternary Science Reviews (https://www.science direct.com/science/article/pii/S027737912 0304704?dgcid= author). Read more
03/08/2020 - 12:54
Monday 3rd August
Total tests done: 21,783
Test results pending: 13
Test results received: 21,770
Confirmed cases: 188 Read more
03/08/2020 - 10:23
The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) is extremely grateful to the Peter J. Isola Foundation for its donation of a fantastic new General Electric (GE) Point-Of-Care ultrasound machine. Read more
31/07/2020 - 12:50
Friday 31st July 2020
Total tests done: 21,244
Test results pending: 9
Test results received: 21,235
Confirmed cases: 187 Read more
31/07/2020 - 10:15
WHAT IS GOING ON?
Following the controversy of the Line Wall Road ‘green’ project, where environmental matters were given priority, we now have the opposite happening with the Bassadone Motors in the south district, an area often regarded as a residential and sports zone.
Now, noise and other pollution will no doubt ensue with an industrial project, with cars, vehicles and even military units ostensibly making it a high pollution area. Read more
31/07/2020 - 10:14
Europa Road, one of our main traffic arteries, was blocked on a 24-hour basis every day by the builders on the old casino site taking half a stretch of roadway, with traffic lights and other paraphernalia creating, what at times could have been a traffic danger. Read more
31/07/2020 - 10:10
Unite yesterday staged walkout outside St Bernard's hospital following concern of their members about issues such as bullying, clinical governance and low morale. Read more
31/07/2020 - 10:10
People: Robyn Robles - Historical Fiction and Las Mujeres Libres
by KEVAN KENNEDY
With three works in progress, one section of which already on the road to being published in an anthology called ‘Between the Lines’. Robyn Robles is "finding that middle ground between educating people on history and politics; on basic human empathy - something that narrative helps. It’s a connection that you can make with fictional characters that people may not feel when they’re watching a documentary”.
Thus, historical fiction is an exercise in education and empathy, of connecting through fiction the lived experiences of our historical triumphs and tragedies. Read more
31/07/2020 - 09:53
SPECIAL REPORT
by PETER TABERNER
The Gibraltar government has decided that its time to move on from the original Business Employee Assistance Terms (BEAT) measures implemented as Covid-19 infections began to escalate.
Businesses will now have to adapt to a new set of rules as the BEAT conditions expired at the end of the second economic quarter, now we have BEAT 2.0.
All of the new policies have been drawn up by the Covid Emergency Liaison and Advisory Committee (CELAC), which comprises of the government businesses groups and unions including the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce and the Landlords’ Association. Read more