28/02/2019 - 11:28
Dear Sir,
I read Sandra Haynes's letter about the cost of GBC with great interest, as the figure that she quotes, £4.7 million works out at £397 for each of Gibraltar's 11,812 households, more than double the cost of the UK licence fee, currently £150 a year, and even more than the Danish media licence, at £290 a year, which is payable by anyone with an internet-enabled device, although it is to be funded out of taxation instead from this year. Read more
27/02/2019 - 11:31
The ARMANDO LAGRANDE Column
Once upon a time there were complaints about nuclear submarines calling at Gibraltar, but such noises have ceased. One should ask why the said groups were so vociferous, and why they are no longer heard? Read more
27/02/2019 - 11:21
*Letter from economics minister Joe Bossano to Unite's General Secretary Len McCluskey, sent to us for favour of publication:
*Growing by annual average of £28 million
*Civil Service pay is 25% higher than UK
*Increasing gap between lowest and highest paid, and between public sector and private sector worker
Comrade Len,
In your GBC interview, you said that I was pushing austerity and that it didn’t make any sense. You are right it does not make any sense because I am not pushing austerity as you claim. You also say you are astonished at my comments so I thought I should explain to you what I am commenting on. Read more
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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