SOLIPSISTIC PARDI
23-09-2021
NATIONAL DAY REFLECTIONS BY STRAIT TALKER
Strait Talker September 23, 2021
Gibraltar recently celebrated another National Day where us Gibraltarians proudly don our red and white colours and reiterate our right to self-determination. It is a joyous occasion, cel ...
ROYAL AIR FORCE - FREEDOM OF THE CITY
Staff September 23, 2021
His Worship the Mayor, Mr Christian Santos conferred the Freedom of The City of Gibraltar upon the Royal Air Force. The conferment was moved by the Chief Minister, and was unanimously approved at t ...
GOVERNORS OF GIBRALTAR
Manolo Galliano September 23, 2021
GENERAL SIR GEORGE DON George Don was born in Edinburgh on 30th April 1756; he was the second son of John Don, wine merchant, and his wife Ann Seton. On 26th December 1770, at the age of ...
GIBRALTAR PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY - ANNUAL COMPETITIVE EXHIBITION
Staff September 23, 2021
The Annual Competitive Exhibition of the Gibraltar Photographic Society was officially opened on Monday by the Minister for Culture Prof John Cortes in the presence of His Excellency the Governor V ...
GIBRALTAR COVID-19 VACCINATION BOOSTER PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED
Staff September 23, 2021
Shortly after the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) announced last week that a single booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is recommended to be given, to everyone aged 50 an ...
DEMENTIA AWARENESS
Staff September 23, 2021
September is Dementia Awareness month! GHA teams from Elderly Residential Services (ERS), Bella Vista, GHA doctors joined colleagues from the Care Agency to support the Gibraltar ...
EUROPE'S MEDITERRANEAN LEADERS PLEDGE CLIMATE COOPERATION
Staff September 23, 2021
Last Friday, the leaders of Europe's Mediterranean countries pledged to expand cooperation against climate change, at a meeting in Athens, held in the aftermath of massive wildfires that ravage ...
SOLIPSISTIC PARDI
John Clear September 23, 2021
We could have chosen a different title, perhaps, one that means the same - “Pardi the man that bats for himself and not for his team!” Because the team is intended as simply a personal ...
OPPORTUNISTIC OPPOSITION POLITICISING THE PANDEMIC BY STRAIT TALKER
Strait Talker September 23, 2021
The GSD’s press release on the vaccination of 12–15-year-olds is nothing short of disgraceful. It is the sort of rhetoric we have become all too familiar with when we scroll through our ...
UK FASTEST GDP
Questor September 23, 2021
The UK economy has grown at the fastest rate in the developed world in the second quarter of 2021 seen as a huge victory for Brexiteers, with the EU growth in the same period1.9%. The dat ...
PRIME MINISTER’S QUESTIONS, A USEFUL VEHICLE OR A WASTE OF TIME?
Michael Hogg September 23, 2021
Last Wednesday I watched Prime Minister’s Questions on television. This event occurs once a week in the House of Commons, enabling Members of Parliament to directly put a question, on any sub ...
CONTRA VIENTO Y MAREA
El Tio September 23, 2021
El público de a pie tiene que poder descifrar lo que está pasando delante de nuestras narices. Esto quedó claro en el debate de los presupuestos generales por parte d ...
EL CRONISTA
El Cronista September 23, 2021
¿Qué es la Verdad? (Serie IV, Parte VIII) Pues bien, El Consejo General del Poder Judicial sigue sin renovarse y ya han pasado más de mil días. En un ...
THE TREES AT THE TRAFALGAR CEMETERY
Staff September 23, 2021
Apart from its as a historical value as a heritage site, the Trafalgar Cemetery has an extensive collection of trees. There are no fewer than 83 species of tree growing within the Cemeter ...
HOT DAYS INCREASE
Joe Smith September 23, 2021
A global analysis has found that the number of extremely hot days every year, when the temperature reaches 50˚C, has doubled since the 1980s. They also now happen in more areas of the wo ...
