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PSOE Victory Nothing to Celebrate About...

We all analyse things, news and life differently. In fact, ‘public citizens’ perception to news can shape their political and often economic behaviour, making the origins of those perceptions an important question on how they actually formed such an opinion.  Read more

We cannot be bought, we cannot be intimidated and we will never surrender, Bossano tells UN seminar

IN FULL address by Sir Joe Bossano to the UN decolonisation seminar held in Grenada:

I want to deal with the views expressed by Spain in seminars or in New York in support of their sovereignty claim and also with the failure of C24 to address the rights of our People under the Charter and the Decolonization Resolutions.  Read more

WHAT A SCANDAL: What is essentially an office block on top of a listed building

THIS IS WHAT JOE GARCIA WROTE A YEAR AGO:

The Chief Minister, self-appointed fan of GBC, was jumping with joy when announcing that he had decided to erect an office block on top of a listed building - but he is still in time to stop the sacrilege.  Read more

And now pensions in the private sector

It's one Bill after another, the Government yesterday published a Bill for an Act that will ensure that private sector workers are entitled to have a choice, by law, on whether they wish to make a contribution to a pension plan.

The Bill provides that, should an employee choose to participate in a pension plan, the law will require the employer to contribute towards that employee’s pension plan.  Read more

£8 million luxury building for GBC: WHAT NEXT?

by KEN WESTMORELAND

It’s easy to knock GBC, not simply because of its content, but increasingly its cost, but while it may cost a lot per capita, or per household, there is still a need for local news and current affairs programming, on TV as well as radio. A town of 35 000 people in the UK or Spain can manage without them, but a self-governing territory like Gibraltar cannot.  Read more

NEEDED: A Healthy Opposition as much as Good Governance

At the moment there is much political blindness out there and not all for the right reasons, which is disturbing. In fact, I had a taste of it last week when I penned the report about Spanish workers had taken over directing local traffic, this upset two senior party members of one party.  Read more