13/12/2019 - 10:27
Gibraltar’s Chief minister said some time back “ I think we’ve agreed enough of the substance of the practical arrangements between us, the UK, the EU and Spain, that we might seek to put in place some sort of safety net.” I believe the Government has by now achieved this, and no doubt our community is much relieved to hear it. We all need to feel secure, especially now with what has been going down. Read more
27/11/2019 - 10:32
Why the only human group left on the planet are humans
Recently there have been new studies published where it has been reported that complex disease transmission patterns could explain how modern humans were able to wipe out Neanderthals in Europe and Asia, in just a few thousand years; with research coming to the conclusion of why possibly humans, are the only human group left on the planet. One doesn’t have to look back as far as the ice age, to realize that said phenomenon also caused the devastation of entire tribes of people during the New World age; to the point of near extinction. Read more
25/11/2019 - 10:56
When the realization comes that we have been treading the same boards, on the same stage as we have done for years, and for some strange reason our audience has not changed one iota; one has, not to capitulate, but look at how we have done things in the past, and understand that we have to change the content of the script; not just for survival’s sake alone, but for our future wellbeing, and because we owe it to those who came before! Our stance at the UN has to be revived; it has to be seen with fresh eyes and fresh input; because our performances so far have fallen on deaf ears; or better said; on ears that will not listen. The audience has become stale and we as players need some new strategy that will not so much wake them up, but rock their foundations. Read more
18/11/2019 - 11:51
The ARMANDO LAGRANDE Column
The chief minister Fabian Picardo is as pleased as Punch because the Governor re-states the UK commitments to Gibraltar, such as Gibraltarians' right to self-determination.
Of course, we have heard it all before, or have we forgotten the Tony Blair era when the people of Gibraltar hailed the 1969 constitution as something that fully safeguarded the right to self-determination. Read more
13/11/2019 - 10:43
From Carmen Gomez Diary:
Last year Trevor Taylor, a professional Research Fellow in Defence Management, wrote on July 24th that haziness on future MOD funding is likely the reason for an update on the modernising defence programme, Read more
11/11/2019 - 10:56
“I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye.” The White Rabbit first says to Alice, in Alice through the Looking Glass, without even giving her a moment to introduce herself or the himself the chance to ask her if she needed anything. That’s society today. Rush, rush, rush; no time to stop. Most probably it’s the motto of the “target” brigade; people who wear tracking devices on their wrists; or their belts or even in their underwear, as one lady was seen to proudly produce from her bra. In an era of empowerment; a word that bothers me as I write it; such objectives can take over your life. Read more
08/11/2019 - 11:17
Sir Lyndsay Hoyle; Gibraltar’s great friend and defender; the new Speaker of the House of Commons; back in 2014, wrote to the Spanish ambassador to London, complaining about the treatment received by some British people on their way across the border; and the three line response to him at the time was; that this was what “we” should expect as long as “we” continued to pursue outdated colonial desires to occupy a piece of Spain illegally. Read more
04/11/2019 - 12:00
Blimey, quieren hacer un referendum on el abortion on St Joseph's Day, is this mixing someting like that with religion?
Querida Cynthia, that's how it may look, pero I am sure que es un despiste, and anyway los parliamentarians can change the date if they wish to.
Well, let's wait and see, porque esta el mundo full of suprises, Cloti dear. Read more
01/11/2019 - 11:05
Health and social care for older adults are essential parts of our welfare policy.
Our elders are an important entity they are the missing jigsaw puzzle piece of the ‘modern society’ and of the ‘family’ as they are the concrete moral, financial, emotional, skillful and experienced supporters in the modern world of secularisation. Read more
29/10/2019 - 11:12
Sunday was Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, and Gibraltar's Hindu community celebrated in style! Read more
