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Fuel Containers Seized

A number of fuel containers have been seized by RGP officers at two locations over the weekend.
In the first incident at 2200hrs on Friday evening, officers stopped two vehicles on Waterport Road, which contained 5 fuel containers filled with 44 litres of fuel. Read more

Three men arrested after kayak crossing

Three men have been arrested for immigration offences after entering British Gibraltar Territorial Waters in a kayak last night.
At about 2030hrs the RGP received a report that three suspected illegal immigrants were in an inflatable kayak. Read more

SUPERYACHT SIREN BUNKER CALL AT GIBRALTAR

YACHT SCENE by Joe Brugada

This 73.5 metre Custom Superyacht SIREN was last built by Nobiskrug, Hamburg shipyards and last refitted in 2013. It’s owned by David and Simon Reuben, Indian born - of Baghdadi parents, British billionaire businessmen are reported to be the second richest family in the UK. Read more

Gibraltar - COVID-19 Information Update

Monday 7th June 2021
Total tests done: 259,639
Test results pending: 38
Test results received: 259,601
Confirmed cases: 4300 (+0) Read more

SHOCK: Woman thought she was flying to Belfast and ended up in Gibraltar by mistake

'I flew to Gibraltar instead of Belfast by mistake'. That was the shock of an Irish woman passenger on an easyJet flight. An investigation is trying to find out how she was in the wrong flight to Gibraltar, as her intention was to fly to Belfast. Read more

The scene at the frontier on Friday

Passport checks lead to massive frontier queues

by PANORAMA reporter
The queue on Friday at the frontier was definitely not one to remember if you were stuck in it at any stage. According to traffic officers the queue started around 9:30 in the morning and apparently there was an inconsistency of passport checks at the frontier by the Spanish National Police, which inevitably had an effect on traffic flow. Read more

How white-collar politicians, by and large pertaining to a single sector, have become the dominant decision-makers

Gibraltar’s political evolution from the cradle of colonialism is furiously celebrated in the Llanito psyche as it sheds ageing scales of imperial rule and claws for its destiny. The Rock’s political landscape was once as permeable and in constant flux as its increasingly diverse society, hailed as survivors and admired for an ability to adapt amidst adversity. Read more

Review still under way before the next steps in determining Gibraltar’s fate, said EU spokesman

Taking all this into account: Spain showing signs of democratic fatigue

by CARMEN GOMEZ
Here again we have a country, Russia, that although having been bordering on the autocracy democracy spectrum, it now barely bothers disguising itself as democratic. Read more