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Let’s change our tactics at the UN

We ought to change our UN tactics, adopting a new tune - but it would be wrong to blame the present CM because it is something that goes back a long time - and I am sure Mr Picardo may agree with me when he reads my proposal.

The purpose of the exercise is to remove Gibraltar from the list of colonies, but for as long as the UN keeps saying that we are a colony, it is the Spanish contention that wins the day for them - even if we do not like it.  Read more

Tuna season is here again - but it is being asked if any action will be taken only against Gibraltar anglers?

The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Climate Change (DEHCC) says it would like to inform all anglers that the open season for Bluefin tuna in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW) commenced on Sunday 16th June and ends on the 14th October 2019 or until the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) is reached. Anglers are reminded that a Class K licence is required to fish for Bluefin tuna and there will be a total allowable catch of 15.5 tonnes after which the season will close.  Read more

Why Spain cannot be trusted: It appears to be extending an olive branch when in fact it is offering a poisoned apple

*Speech delivered at the UN decolonisation committee

by Dennis Matthews on behalf of the SDGG

Madame Chair, the Gibraltar that was ceded in perpetuity by Spain to Great Britain over 300 years ago under the Treaty of Utrecht does not exist. I repeat, it does not exist.  Read more

Momentous 240th anniversary of THE GREAT SIEGE

This month is the momentous 240th anniversary of the start of the Great Siege on 21st June 1779. It was Gibraltar’s 14th siege and turned out to be the longest ever siege in British history. Two months earlier, France had persuaded Spain to sign a treaty, in which they agreed to help the American rebels against Britain in the American Revolution. In addition, France promised to help Spain capture Gibraltar and Minorca. The American Revolution therefore crossed the Atlantic.  Read more

International Court Rules: Continued display of authority only way to confirm nation’s claim to sovereignty!

Panorama Warned of Dangerous Sovereignty Situation Had Been Created

This newspaper reported last week, describing a very disturbing sovereignty related situation that had developed. Where the most senior enforcement agency the Royal Gibraltar Police had adopted a ‘dangerously selective operational enforcement policy’ generally it seems for now, in the area of policing illegal fishing in BGTW.  Read more

All Right Now: 90 Years of the Rule of the Road Ordinance

by KEN WESTMORELAND

Sunday marked the ninetieth anniversary of an important change in Gibraltar, a decision made and implemented all in less than twenty-four hours. This was the coming into force of the Rule of the Road Ordinance of 1929, passed only the day before by the Governor, Sir Alexander Godley, declaring that traffic would change to driving on the right at five o’clock that morning.  Read more

GIBRALTAR SHINES IN BRITISH GROUP

The Elite Espoir Group - (Nyah Galia, Lauren Garcia, Thea Cawthorn, Lili Murphy & Chanel Trinidad) travelled all the way to Stoke-On-Trent to compete at the Espoir Elite Group League.  Read more

VIGIL TO OUR LADY OF EUROPE

Well over 250 persons attended the Vigil at the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe which was organised by the Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar for a ‘Greater Love for the Splendour of Human Life from Conception.’ There was a screen placed outside the Shrine for those who did not fit inside so that they were able to follow the proceedings.  Read more