27/01/2020 - 11:19
The Bosom Buddies Cancer Trust, have managed to sell an enormous amount of Calendars once again this year. The team must be thanked for all the hard work entailed to produce the photos, find the outfits and venues, and mostly to make sure we had many events to attend from where to sell the Calendars. Read more
27/01/2020 - 11:14
The annual meeting of the International Research and Conservation Committee (IRCC) was held on Thursday at the Gibraltar National Museum. The meeting was chaired by Professor Minja Yang, former Deputy Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris. Other members present were Professor Geoff Bailey (University of York), Professor Mina Weisntein Evron (Haifa University) and Dr Juan Jose Negro (Estacion Biologica Doñana). Read more
27/01/2020 - 11:13
This year’s Youth Arts Jamboree, a cultural development programme dedicated to young people, is being launched by the Gibraltar Cultural Services.
The activities offered in the programme are all geared for children and young people aged between 2 and 25 years old. The Jamboree will be held from the 17th February to the 6th March 2020. Some events will continue out of this timeframe, including the Youth Open Day that has been scheduled for Sunday 17th May 2020. Read more
24/01/2020 - 10:56
The Minister for Justice and Equality has started the consultation process in relation to Parental Alienation which was announced last November in connection with International Men’s Day.
The process has commenced with the first meeting yesterday with Mr David Gallardo who was also representing the group Forgotten Fathers. Read more
24/01/2020 - 10:55
Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, has accused the Ministry of Defence of acting with bad faith during pay negotiations.
The MoD had tabled a pay offer of 11.5 per cent over three years to all civilian staff. While the offer initially appeared generous, the detail was problematic, as it would have resulted in low paid staff being worse off, due to proposed cuts in overtime payments and allowances. Read more
24/01/2020 - 10:55
The Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, has been visiting the Gibraltar Jewish Community in the last few days.
His visit coincides with the completion of a seven and a half year learning cycle of the Talmud, which has been completed by a number of members of the Community. Similar events have taken place in London, New York, Jerusalem and many other parts of the world. Read more
24/01/2020 - 10:48
*£5 MILLION PER ANNUM OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR RUNNING EXPENSES
*£8 MILLION FOR NEW BUILDING
*£3 MILLION FOR NEW EQUIPMENT
My probe into GBC, which has always been something of a secret society, began last Christmas!
It started when I asked the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, which has a broadcasting division, if we could be supplied with the latest GBC annual report, whereupon Broacasting Regulatory Manager Francis Trenado said: "Your request for GBC's annual report should be sent to GBC." Read more
24/01/2020 - 10:47
It’s been quite a muddled, questionable and in parts, unconvincing week in local Brexit politics.
Local leading figures, have not only turned heads, but confused people even more. Leading lights like the Chief Minister, the Governor, the Mayor of La Linea, our friend Sr Jose Margallo, the Deputy Chief Minister, not to be left out, even ‘10 Downing St’ also played its part. In what I can only describe as a seriously odd week of Brexit Politics! Read more
24/01/2020 - 10:47
The Gibraltar Tourist Board has released its new generic consumer and trade advertising campaign themed ‘Gibraltar - Time to be enlightened’.
The slogan forms part of a new identifying campaign logo, which evolves the previous cultural themes explored by the highly successful ‘Year of Culture’ campaign. Read more
24/01/2020 - 10:46
Gibraltar Tourist Board (GTB) is participating at the 40th edition of FITUR, the international tourism trade fair, in Madrid, Spain to January 26.
FITUR is one of the leading meeting points for the tourism industry globally. In 2019 10,487 exhibiting companies from 165countries/regions, 142,642 trade participants, 110,848 consumers and over 8,000 journalists took part. Read more
