17/04/2020 - 09:45
The economic decline caused by the Covid health crisis is enormous and rapid. Probably, why experts agree that Europeans will pay a high Covid-19 price for living in open affluent democracies, where people move freely, have easy travel and enjoy independent decision-making. Governments in the European continent aren’t used to giving harsh orders, and citizens are not use to following them, that’s for sure! Read more
16/04/2020 - 09:20
Two important issues are now at the forefront of most Covid related questions, not only from the media and public perspective but also from businesses and like. These questions involve the end of the lockdown and the state of the economy. The same questions are also being asked in Gibraltar? Read more
15/04/2020 - 09:36
No gain without pain
Remember the days when in every broadcast on Spanish TV there was the inevitable section dedicated to the millions of tourists who were coming to their shores and how the occupancy of hotels were full etc etc? Read more
08/04/2020 - 09:23
The turn of events, regarding UK premier Boris Johnson health who remains in intensive care at St Thomas hospital in London, after his condition worsened. Should be a stark reminder to all of us ‘that the coronavirus will spare no one’ no matter who they are in life, including leading politicians! Read more
07/04/2020 - 10:12
After an absence of some eight or ten No 6 press briefings, the government on Sunday wheeled-out ‘Gibraltar’s very own (Coronavirus) Dr Death’ the Director of Public Health Dr Sohail Bhatti who did another excellent job, not so much in informing the community, but in ‘Grim-Creeper’ style creating great anxiety in the population, leaving, a large number of concerned and vulnerable people in total distress. And that’s no exaggeration! Read more
06/04/2020 - 09:51
‘Without testing there is no Data’
There exist, some enigma surrounding the important issue of testing for Covid-19. For weeks, in my Panorama reports I have been critical how testing programmes have been slow to really get going, even after being told the opposite, at daily Covid briefings from 6 Convent Place. Read more
03/04/2020 - 09:16
Musing on life as one tends to do particularly when faced with a panorama never before envisaged; it is easy to lose the thread somewhat, on account of the surreal circumstances we find ourselves in. At such a time it is quite normal to ask, “How on earth did we get here?” when looking not just at ourselves, but the world in general. I must admit that watching the news on Sky TV sometime back, I witnessed Chinese people walking about with face masks in their daily fog soup; just like in the pictures of the old Jack the Ripper movies; and one of them, on being asked how he felt about the intense contamination around them, simply mumbled “at least I have work.” In other words, this man had come to a point of no return. Read more
01/04/2020 - 10:15
Behind Covid-19, opportunity lurks for the business world
In the paroxysms of wars and pandemics, depressed markets offer opportunities which lurk for those who profit from them. Read more
30/03/2020 - 09:29
One minute I was looking at my parents and their friends, and wondering what it would be like to be as old as them; the next thing I knew, I was. Yet here we are, even more baffled by life than when we were small children, with our new found status; confined to barracks as soldiers in war time, and what’s worse, expecting to be on the front line! We find ourselves in this new found existence suddenly imposed on us for our good and that of our small nation; without the help of a vade mecum to guide us through our unchartered times. Read more
27/03/2020 - 10:34
I have previously written about how in the America’s, the arrival of Spanish conquistadores brought disease to many indigenous people who had no immunity to new infectious; and by exposing them to these they died in their thousands. Curiously, in my browsing recently through history, I came across a very similar scenario; except this time the happening was attributed to the English. Read more
