Letters

Cordial meeting on Community Care issues

Dear Sir,

A group of 150 local men have come together, calling themselves The Community Care Concerns Group.

This group has been formed in response to the sudden and unexpected changes that have been made and implemented by the Board of Directors of Community Care.  Read more

Crucial to have direct and strong relations with Morocco

Dear Sir,

The Gibraltar Morocco Business Association (the “GMBA”), together with its sister company, the Gibraltar Morocco Business Exchange (the “GMBE”) are dedicated to the fostering of frontline and new, as well as strong and permanent, links between Gibraltar and Morocco. This is not only as a contingency measure to the Brexit reality which affects Gibraltar dramatically, but also simply to create effective commercial relations between Gibraltar and its fast economically growing neighbour that is Morocco. This it does with the support of the Gibraltar Government.  Read more

Gibraltar Cheshire Home

Dear Sir,

The Gibraltar Cheshire Home Support Group volunteers raised £1,100 from the flag day held last Friday 13th March.

The proceeds will go towards assisting the current “major refurbishment programme that will give the old “main building” a much needed facelift and carry out essential structural as well as renewal work to the building’s façade, windwos and some of the interior ceilings and sanitary facilities.  Read more

The airport

Dear Sir,

It has always been stated by our chief minister, Mr. Picardo, that we will never give Spain ONE INCH of our land. Today, reading an article in the Olivepress.es dated March 4th - 17th. that our chief minister has been discussing SHARED USE of our airport.Surely this is conceding Gibraltar territory to Spain.  Read more

Abortion is curently permissible if a woman's life is at risk

Dear Sir,

On 19th March, we will be asked to remove unborn children’s right to life in Gibraltar. We are being asked to make abortion widely available and even to make abortion up to birth legal.

This referendum is not about hard cases. Abortion is currently permissible if a woman’s life is at risk. This referendum is about a much more extreme abortion regime which will welcome in abortion on demand.  Read more

In hospital I was told I could not be told in which ward my father had been taken to after an accident, as this would be a breach of data protection...

Dear Sir,

Shortly before midnight on the 12th December last year my elderly father aged 90 had a serious fall which resulted in my mother having to call the ambulance and my father was taken to A & E. MI was called and went to the hospital. I remained there with my parents until I left at about 3 am. Prior to my leaving it had been decided to keep my father in and they were sorting out which ward he was to be taken to. I left because I had an appointment myself at 9.45 at the hospital. Read more

This is what our Government needs to pursue

Dear Sir,

The Representation in Westminster Movement would like to welcome and congratulate the recently formed Devolved Integration Movement. In particular we commend them for pursuing our own long-term goal to maintain our close links with Britain and to form an integral part of the British family (however different our interpretations may be of the words 'devolved' and 'integration'). Read more

Abortion on demand is a Holocaust

Dear Sir,

On 27th January 2020. we commemorated in Gibraltar the International Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75th liberation anniversary from the Nazi death camp in
Auschwitz. 6 million Jews were murdered in 4 years. Speaking from London, according to a GBC report, the Chief Minister said "... we must not turn away from the horrors of Auschwitz ... we need to ensure we don't fall into the trap of allowing it to happen again'1. We all agree. Read more