22/02/2019 - 11:09
It was in 1997 when Gibraltar already envisaged a future status with the EU possible under some type of special arrangement. What a turn for the books! Having said this, if Spain had not vomited yet another lot of vile, the obvious answer would have been to give Gibraltar membership of the customs union and single market by special protocol; a bespoke arrangement like other EU microstates enjoy, such as Monaco, San Marino, the Vatican City and Andorra. Read more
20/02/2019 - 11:21
Caramba, que semana de sustos, como que a mi Johnny hasta se le ha caido el poco pelo que tenia.
My dear Cloti, take it easy, or don't you know that in the end we always win.
Ya lo se, Cynthia mia, we are blessed. Pero que dijera Santa Teresita que it was not an incursion when ships were even being ordered out of our British Forever Waters, eso fue el colmo. Read more
20/02/2019 - 11:04
Carmen Gomez Diary
Border force is a part of the Home Office responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea, and rail ports in the UK. Its fleet of patrol boats known as “cutters”, are used to control maritime traffic throughout UK waters. Although they operate mainly in UK waters, they have responded to deployments from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. Read more
18/02/2019 - 11:08
When surrounded by a swirling drift which impeded his continuation up the mountain, Captain Scott wrote in his diary, “I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far.” Read more
05/02/2019 - 11:05
I recently heard two very good arguments put forward by three women that were talking about the abortion issue in Gibraltar. An issue that was raised in 2018 and will no doubt become an election issue this year. Read more
04/02/2019 - 11:18
I am a child of a past era; but that does not mean that my values are out of zinc with today’s world, or less important. Nor am I making any comparisons in order that those values of today either appear to be wrong, or less worthy. I am simply stating my case; one which I feel should be taken into consideration and given some serious thought to. Read more
28/01/2019 - 11:22
In my early student days with the MOD, I ended up at the naval base and dockyard at Chatham, and among other activities, I spent a year in the main drawing office there which included a top security area where drawings were prepared for modifications to the submarine fleet.
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25/01/2019 - 11:27
Dare I say that in Brussels, despite the front set up by Junker and Tusk, the member states are huddling round the queen bee in her hive, more out of fear of the unknown than simple camaraderie. Read more
21/01/2019 - 10:44
It’s interesting how, when Spanish environmental groups like Agaden, Verdemar and Greenpeace, present a document to do with finding ways to mitigate, what they consider to be dire environmental situations affecting the Bay of Gibraltar, they always relate the lack of attention given to this, to disagreements between Spain, the UK and Gibraltar. Read more
14/01/2019 - 10:54
I heard over the festive season; as passers-by were briefly interviewed on TV as to whether they did their Christmas shopping in stores or on the Internet; one woman say that she had no time to go shopping, so she preferred to buy online and have it brought to her doorstep. Read more