COMMENT
ALEXANDER, NOT SO GREAT…
Having made such positive efforts to win back a long eroded relationship between La Linea and Gibraltar it seems almost inexplicable – except perhaps a symptom of caving in to pressure against better judgement - that Alejandro Sanchez the Mayor should have chosen to take out the town’s frustrations on Gibraltar.
AIR, SPACE
After a week of the Tornado exercises, and a long political history, it is not surprising that the initial reasons given by rogue Seville air controllers taking industrial action were taken at face value.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
There’s a wee problem in Gibraltar. Year after year, decade after decade the official bathing season does not start until a few weeks after the public has voted with its feet and got to the beach.
NO HOLDS BARRED…
The opening of a prison seems a strange thing to get enthused about, but there is no doubt that the opening of HMP Windmill Hill is a major event in local social history.
The building is well planned and constructed and fulfils a longstanding need for this service to be upgraded for all concerned, the prisoners, the staff and Gibraltar itself.
After all the way in which people treat their prisoners is a hallmark of who they are as a society.
THE WEAKEST LINK
The collapse of the case Regina v Porro leaves a number of serious questions unanswered.
The RGP rightly moved swiftly, at the time of the incident, to ensure that their storage procedures are up to scratch and secure.
GUNS FIRING…
That the Chief Minister, himself an experienced lawyer, should signal to the profession, in what were rather gentle terms, that they should look towards having more modern compliance standards, can hardly come as a surprise in the context of recent events.
Only full investigation and the process of justice can now establish where any culpability may lie in the particular case of Marrache & Co. At this stage that is for the courts to decide.
THE OTHER SIDE OF JUSTICE
Whilst it has to be recognised that Gibraltar's courts are living through the inevitable chaos that comes from major works that will transform the service, there are serious issues within our society that require sensitivity and fluidity from our justice system.
Victims of any crime will sometimes feel that the process that follows that crime can be slow even when all involved do their best to expedite investigations and the necessary procedures to ensure a fair trial.