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AS SHOPS OPEN UP

Social explosion, learning experience, series of contrasts

SPECIAL REPORT by KEVAN KENNEDY

Last Wednesday and Thursday the PANORAMA walked up and down the Main Street and Irish Town, interviewing businesses of a wide variety in order to gauge their opinions on the recent relaxation of the Gibraltar lockdown. Read more

VOLUNTEERS IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE: How a culture of ‘us and them’ can be created

by JOE BISHOP, Emergency Management Consultant

Governments and organizations, especially during major emergencies and disasters, find that their response capacity has been exceeded and are unable to provide their services without the support of volunteers. Read more

The Covid gloves are off?

As Government controversially ‘Unlocks the Rock’

Azzopardi Breaks (Covid) Ranks

The first signs of a political Covid split has come to a highpoint as Gibraltar enters the very early stages of returning to normality, whatever that is at the moment?

Government has already started to slowly unveil its 6 point ‘Unlock the Rock’ plan. But it hasn’t taken long for opposition party leader Keith Azzopardi to break ranks with all the ongoing top-secret post Covid planning. Read more

Nothing much changes, not really

When I hear the often and well used phrase “women being empowered,” I sense that “machismo” has been around for so long and is so deep rooted, that I believe it has diluted the strengths that such a well meaning sentiment embodies. I speak of women journalists who, over the course of 200 years, have been under threat. The incidents are too numerous to go into; but many female journalists have not only faced long jail sentences because of their work, but been killed for their reporting; something which has seen a surge in recent years. Read more

As schools begin to open

by GILBERT LICUDI, Minister of Education

On 18th March, the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Education in the On UK announced that schools would close. By then, school attendance in Gibraltar was down to around 35%.

That week, the UK examination boards confirmed that GCSE and A level examinations for the summer 2020 would be cancelled. Read more

A LETTER OF GRATITUDE THAT LIFTS MORALE

It will be obvious to everyone that the last few weeks have put the Government’s Ministers and officials under unprecedented pressure. Almost everyone in the public sector has been working long hours, often on issues well outside everyone’s normal areas of expertise. So far, the outcomes have been largely positive and, as a result, the current situation is providing considerable job satisfaction for those involved in fighting the ongoing battle against Covid-19. Read more

IN PERSPECTIVE

650 cats to be fed

For today’s In Perspective, the PANORAMA we feature Save Gibraltar Street Cats’ (SGSC) Susan Wink Sampere to better understand the situation with Gibraltar’s fairly significant street-cat population, animal rights and abuses, and the Charity’s role as a whole. Read more