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29th April 2025
As the warmer weather approaches, much like any shopping addict, I’m spending hours and hours scrolling through my favourite websites and social media pages. I’m picturing how I’ll wear and style each outfit, judging whether I’ll add them to my cart only because of the price. But while I am looking to expand my wardrobe...
29th April 2025
The town of Jonesville sits in the western point of Virginia, almost to where the state meets with Kentucky and Tennessee. In fact, just a short drive away, you can go up the Tri-State Peak mountain and stand on all three states at the same time. My husband grew up there, and since we met...
25th April 2025
I often say every one of us has a story to tell. I believe that after almost six and a half years since Alice’s Table began I have proven this. The stories of where we have come from are incredibly fascinating – our connections from a common past we share both rich and revealing of...
22nd April 2025
Even though it may be a case of getting to the church on time – as the song goes – speeding on the roads is against the law, as we all know but so often ignore, especially bikers (but not all of them), who simply must go as fast as they can, in most cases,...
21st April 2025
By Selwyn Figueras On 1 February this year, I had the privilege to speak at Gibtalks about the impact and dangers of smartphones and social media for children. What follows, given the context of the publication of draft legislation to ban smartphones from school a few weeks ago, is a shortened version of what I...
17th April 2025
On a July morning, tucked into a police media report an entry detailed how a local business had lost in excess of £1m to a telephone fraud. Within seconds of reading, I dialled the RGP media officer. We spoke briefly about the stunning loss, how a press release would likely be issued, and on my...
15th April 2025
Earlier this week, I went out for dinner with a group of former school friends who I hadn’t spent time with since my Westside days. These are the friends who I saw on a daily basis, then came home and we’d call each other and carry on talking. These are also the friends whose phone...
14th April 2025
Since I moved to Washington DC, I’ve been watching The West Wing for the first time, making my way nightly through all seven seasons. It passed me by when it originally aired back in the early 2000s. I don’t think I was very political in my teens, and I don’t remember anyone else my age...
13th April 2025
By Robert Vasquez GBC has made public conflict in 1994/5 between the GSLP Government, under then Chief Minister Joseph Bossano (now Sir) [Sir Joe], and the UK. It follows a review of documents revealed now by the UK. The clue is that clashes were due to the UK’s desire to ‘influence’ issues in Gibraltar relying...
11th April 2025
We are dipping into the Gibraltar Directory series this week. Actually, we are re-opening the pages to 1927. Alice’s Table looks back on history… and last time the section on ORDERS seemed to amuse a good number of you. So, let us revisit these rather interesting notes which are colourful and at times unbelievable… but...
8th April 2025
Yes, I’m going back to the ‘50s and ‘60s when there were scores of bars on the Rock – you know, drinking places, especially beer. In those days, some may say, military personnel were an overwhelming feature in Gibraltar. There were, at some early stage of that time, two battalions (not just one as in...
1st April 2025
After an hour at a careers panel fielding questions from comprehensive-aged students, I walked off the small stage into a green room. A handful of exam-aged students were there to gain a further understanding of journalism and try their chances for an opportunity to do some work experience. A fleeting conversation with a teenager had...
1st April 2025
There is nothing more comforting and ‘Llanito’ than consuming a chicken korma with rice and mopping up the rest of the sauce with a piece of naan. I have been teased mercilessly by my friends for ordering this in the past, and every time I will defend myself for ordering a chicken korma and rice....
31st March 2025
A few years ago, I wrote a column about the decision to include traffic lights in Gibraltar with an inclusive message around Pride. There had been a backlash around the very idea of LGBT people within the community being represented in any visible way. I explained what it meant, after so many years of being...