29/03/2019 - 10:52
German Deutsche Welle Conflict Zone, the English Language news website, was interviewing the Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell, who stopped the interview at a point because he did not like the line of questioning. Read more
29/03/2019 - 10:51
EXCLUSIVE
Although at this stage exact details are limited, reliable Panorama sources have exclusively informed this newspaper there is currently an on-going high level and robust political challenge to Spanish claims ‘Gibraltar is a colony of the British Crown’ made in Brussels and Madrid. Read more
29/03/2019 - 10:49
The University of Gibraltar will once again stand in solidarity with the Mayor’s Office to mark this year’s ‘Earth Hour’ which takes place at 8:30pm on Saturday 30th March. Read more
29/03/2019 - 10:47
The Government has published regulations to amend the definition and effect of exit day in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2019, in order to make the necessary amendments following on from the extension sought by the UK. The Chief Minister has now signed the regulations into law. Read more
29/03/2019 - 10:45
Sir Joe Bossano has attended an award ceremony for the newest tranche of certificated Healthcare Assistants.
All candidates underwent a rigorous 6-month training programme where they spent several months in each of the training areas identified as the most valuable to impart the necessary skills and develop their competences to become the backbone of Gibraltar’s exceptional Healthcare. Read more
29/03/2019 - 10:45
In his usual style Mr Picardo is more obsessed with smokescreens to distract from the substance of the bad deals he has negotiated than with responding on the actual effect and detail of the agreements themselves.That's what GSD leader Keith Azopardi claims. Read more
28/03/2019 - 10:45
Referring to the news that four days ago, HM Government of Gibraltar banned the release of helium-filled balloons in Gibraltar, the Chief Minister and Minister John Cortes have jointly received praise from the Animal Interfaith Alliance, an international alliance of faith groups founded in Britain concerned about the welfare of animals. Read more
28/03/2019 - 10:44
A British Labour MEP of 20 years has told of an orchestrated attempt to hound him out of a key role in the European parliament on the basis of his nationality.
Claude Moraes claims to have had his position systematically attacked, with the encouragement of Spain, after blocking EU “no deal” legislation that proposed to describe Gibraltar as a colony in a footnote. Read more
28/03/2019 - 10:44
For years now the GSLP Government have allowed an unrelenting pace of development to enfold our community; from the tip of Europa Point to the frontier and all points in between have been subjected to an unremitting barrage of construction with the community having to suffer the associated noise and dust pollution, often at all hours of the day and without regard to those who have to live in the vicinity, says the GSD. Read more
28/03/2019 - 10:42
It is a bit rich for the Opposition to complain about the pace of development in Gibraltar when many of the construction projects currently underway were authorised by them when they were in office. Indeed, after the present administration was elected in 2011 we had to negotiate with developers to get them to reduce the scale, the height and the massing of projects which had been pre-agreed with the GSD. Read more