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Small place, big stakes

By Kaelan Joyce For the past few decades Gibraltar has enjoyed the benefits of living in a thriving economic bubble, blissfully oblivious to the realities of the wider world, but as society rapidly evolves and transforms into an increasingly complex and sophisticated interconnected digital ecosystem, we can no longer afford to do so. In my...

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Dominique Searle

Opinion & Analysis

Propaganda-free day

Evangelizing politicians often get lost in their own blurb. Embracing the cliches that, as exceptions, may prove the rule, but don’t form reliable or absolute guidelines in themselves. My enemy’s enemy is my friend and so forth. Older members of the community may have experienced the phenomenon whereby change often comes in sudden spurts rather...

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Richard Cartwright

Opinion & Analysis

RICHARD’S RENDEZVOUS Are we doing alright?

Well yes, I think so, it’s been now almost a hundred offerings of this type of article in our daily (Monday to Friday now), Gibraltar Chronicle. So we kick off on a brand new year and looking back, flicking through some of those past editions of this column, it’s a little difficult to pick out...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Pelagos data centre must meet Gibraltar’s economic, environmental and EU-alignment priorities

By Nick Calamaro The £1.8 billion Pelagos Data Centre project represents the single largest foreign investment in Gibraltar's history. The government deserves credit for actively seeking to diversify our economy beyond traditional sectors and into high-growth areas. But by focusing on potential revenue for Gibraltar alone, and by refusing to share more details about the...

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Rebecca Calderon

Opinion & Analysis

The Cauldron: Let it go

When Fabian Picardo MP said he would serve a maximum of three terms if ever he was elected Chief Minister, the public breathed a collective sigh of relief. At the time Gibraltar was in the grip of Peter Caruana torpor and were fed up with the same old faces getting the same old favours and...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Working together for Gibraltar’s future

By John Isola In the nine and half years since the EU referendum, barring the two-year period of the pandemic, Gibraltar’s economy has continued to grow, create jobs and generate revenues for Government. Many local companies selling physical goods took longer to recover from the lockdown than those in the pure service business but overall,...

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Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

GEMA: Where heritage, art and culture live side by side and looking at another decade of achievement

Many years ago, I produced and presented a television series on GBC called ‘I was There’ where I chatted to people who had been witness to some of the most important happenings in the Rock’s history – the 1967 Referendum, the marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono – just to mention two. Events and...

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Priya Gulraj

Opinion & Analysis

ChaiWithPriya The battle between the arts and my phone

“What are you reading right now?” is an inevitable question when I meet with some of my closest friends on a regular basis. All of us will pull out our phones, Kindles or books from our handbag and exchange titles and let the others read the blurbs on the back of the book to keep...

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Dominique Searle

Opinion & Analysis

Your Correspondent K.C., que no! Down the rabbit hole

I’ve just finished my latest bedside read, great five-pages-and-snooze stuff, in a small edition to avoid being assaulted by the tome as I doze. It was Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass*. Suddenly, Alice’s stories seem more coherent than many of the events that have been floating past us on our screens...

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Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

Gibraltar 100 years ago: Local services, statistics and more

I was going to do something very different this week and chat about music, and present to you one of our most active musicians of the moment. But then several of you stopped me on the Main Street and mentioned how much you had enjoyed last week’s column as we stepped into 2026 and asked...

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Richard Cartwright

Opinion & Analysis

Richard’s Rendezvous Live bands, Comparsas y Los Camellos

With the advent of a brand new year – 2026, I’m reminded of how things have changed in terms of `out of the home celebrations,’ during Christmas and the New Year. We always had `live’ bands made up of four, five or even six individuals performing at the very popular yuletide venues of the Calpe,...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Reflections on media, business and change

by Denise Matthews Back in 1995, I was named Young Communicator of the Year by the Gibraltar Chronicle, long before hashtags, likes or algorithms shaped how stories travelled. Thirty years on, it would be remiss of me not to reflect on what local media has meant to my career, and to Gibraltar’s business community more...

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Rebecca Calderon

Opinion & Analysis

The Cauldron Father Charlie’s Living Legacy

In early November 2025, I received a VIP invitation. I have never been sent a VIP invitation in my life, nor have I ever paid to enter a VIP area for anything. When I saw what it was for, the Episcopal Ordination of Monsignor Charles Azzopardi, I was both flattered and excited. I am not...

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Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

Another year of stories to tell, some of which will take us back to the past

Here we go again. Another New Year – 2026. How many New Year resolutions have you signed up for this year? Here at Alice’s Table, we have two; to continue our stories and to keep you both informed and entertained. And now with the festive season over it is once again down to serious business....