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
07/10/2019 - 10:03
‘The Future You Deserve’, slogan for the GSD’s 2019 Political Campaign ahead of the General Election appears on the party’s manifesto. Read more
07/10/2019 - 10:02
The fresh political party, founded just over two years ago, released their manifesto for their first General Election led by Marlene Hassan Nahon.
‘Believe in a better way’ is the slogan that is present in the 72 page manifesto. The structure of the manifesto consists of information of all the candidates and what their views of their allocated areas are, what they will introduce if elected into government and what they believe needs to be changed. Read more
07/10/2019 - 10:01
The Bayside School Cyber Club has been awarded ‘Best Educator’ at the 2019 Seriously Security Awards held in London.
The nomination was made by the chief examiner of a cyber security qualification who had witnessed the work done by the club and its partnership with the technology sector first hand. Over the past five years, students have been taught by industry experts, been on work experience within the sector, gained vocational qualifications and worked as interns at various companies. Read more
07/10/2019 - 09:59
Our editor Joe Garcia has long been campaigning in the pages of PANORAMA for Gibraltar to have a Naval and Military Museum and such an idea is now taken up by the GSLP/Liberals in their election manifesto.
They say that, if returned to government, they will establish a museum to commemorate Gibraltar's long and historic connections with the armed forces of the United Kingdom. Read more
07/10/2019 - 09:59
Two occupants beached their boat on the east side and rushed into Gibraltar; helicopter in the air; incursion of Gibraltar sovereignty; a sea chase. Read more
07/10/2019 - 09:58
Following a post-mortem, HM Coroner has authorised the release of the body concerning last week's incident at sea, to the family and arrangements are being made for its repatriation to Spain. Read more
04/10/2019 - 10:14
The GSLP Liberals yesterday released their chunky manifesto for this year’s general election at a press conference that was streamed on the GSLP’s social media outlets. The manifesto is now online and the printed version will follow. Read more
04/10/2019 - 10:13
The Cross Frontier Group met up with the Liberal Party yesterday morning with the intention of speaking with all four political parties in Gibraltar to get information about Brexit and the border.
The Group called a meeting months back, way before the announcement of the general election, to discuss the concerning factors of Brexit for business and employees in the local area, the problems that would arise as a result of a hard Brexit and to get an analysis of how the politics in the UK was going and how that would affect the Gibraltar economy and the economy in the Campo area. 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