Letters

Sceptical not scaremongering

Dear Sir,

Reading the letter from Emilio Reyes, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. If this is a response to my letters from a few months ago, why has it taken him or any of his colleagues so long to respond? Even if you don't have internet access in Gibraltar, Panorama is readily available in print. And he claims to be a member of the Representation in Westminster Group - isn't it supposed to be a Movement? Previously it was the Integration With Britain Movement, though it is not so much a case of old wine in new bottles, given that wine improves with age, so much as stale or mouldy bread in new wrapping, inedible however it looks on the outside.  Read more

This petition should not be ignored

Dear Sir,

I have been reading one or two scaremongering letters, which seem to say that a democratic petition signed by an electoral Gibraltarian majority should be ignored.

Gibraltarians are not fools, when they sign something they are fully aware of what it means for their future.

We all know we need to start determining our future, a secure one, for our future generations.  Read more

Gibraltar must help Australia NOW

Australia is suffering a never-ending forest fire. Over a million animals have died and hundreds of homes destroyed. People have also died and there is no sign of this curse subsiding.

Australia was the only country at the United Nations in 1965-1966 that spoke in favour of our decolonisation and against the Spanish insistence that we be handed over to Spain.  Read more

How letters sent to Gibraltar can end up in the hamlet of Aylesbury in England

Dear Sir,

I appreciated David Eveson's letter regarding the renovation of the Post Office premises, having seen some of it myself when I visited Gibraltar last year and was shown around by Frank Bado, who, sadly, has since died. Poignantly, his last email to me was to let me know that my article 'No postcode envy' had been published in Panorama, one in which he had a hand, as a valuable source of insider information on why the postcode project had stalled, in addition to telling me about when he was with the British Forces Post Office in Ascension and the Falkland Islands and helping the forces pack up in Hong Kong before the handover to China.  Read more

Improvements at Post Office

Dear Sir,

Our Royal Gibraltar Post Office often comes under complaints, whether incoming or outgoing mail the Postie is going to get it in the neck!

Have you noticed the beautification of the Post Office building? The Irish Town box section has had a makeover, not only has it been refurbished but large prints have been put on display along the corridor also all private Post Boxes have been painted.  Read more

Those cannons

Dear Sir,

Read with interest the article that appeared in the Panorama of the 11th of December 2019 reference to the 2 historical cannons that are placed on our historical fortress wall ,actually, Orange Bastion area next to the The American War Memorial.

I would like to say that those 2 cannons that have been mentioned in the article (in set photo) are not the Crimea War ones as it has been referred to.  Read more

Being British is a linguistic problem

Dear Sir,

Earlier this year, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee published its report 'Global Britain and the British Overseas Territories: Resetting the relationship', and one territory that was virtually absent from it was Gibraltar, the irony being that it was while visiting the Rock that I first read about it. Although the Deputy Chief Minister wrote to say that the Chief Minister was willing to give evidence to the Committee, as his predecessor did in 2008, he gave none, oral or written.  Read more

‘SELF-DEFENCE CLASSES FOR LADIES’

Dear Sir,

I have followed with great interest the hot issue of 'MUJERES MALTRATADA' and VIOLENCIA MACHISTA' in the press and Spanish Tv.

I can only applaud the efforts and initiatives instigated and implemented by Minister for Equality, The Hon. Samantha Sacramento to address this important subject in Gibraltar by changing and implementing new laws.  Read more