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Priya Gulraj

Opinion & Analysis

Brexit on the tongue

For the past 10 years the word Brexit has featured heavily in our day-to-day lives, not just because it features heavily in the news but also the impact it would have on us personally. For years I’ve had to report on Brexit issues happening in Gibraltar and how it would affect Gibraltar, but now I’m...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Gibraltar’s second digital inflection point for businesses ready to think bigger

By Carl Hallam When my wife and I made the decision to leave the UK and move to Gibraltar with our two young boys, it was a leap. I joined a large UK operator, focusing on the UK market, and Gibraltar became the operational and regulatory base for a business targeting customers across Europe. Gibraltar...

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Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

Vallejo: Let me share with you a story on local history

This week Alice’s Table returns to City Mill Lane and the story of well known local history enthusiast Tito – Ernest Peso Vallejo Smith. He is the older brother of well known local musician double bassist Albert Vallejo who I also spoke to - born a few years apart at the Hotel Peso above the...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

When equality in law must become equality in practice

By Gemma Arias Vasquez, Minister for Health, Care and Business As this week draws to a close, I do so having returned from New York, where I attended the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. International Women’s Day is, of course, marked on one day each year, but in truth its...

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Richard Cartwright

Opinion & Analysis

RichardsRendezvous Our identity further enriched

It would be more than an understatement to say that, in recent times, we are failing to promote our identity and culture. Almost every day we hear of some Llanito book or piece of poetry being published for all to read and appreciate. Stage plays are being produced and Spanish – or Llanito – is...

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Rebecca Calderon

Opinion & Analysis

The Cauldron The Palomo Poets

Social media has a lot of good points. It is great for independent creatives to share their work and build an audience, gone are the days that people had to take out expensive adverts in magazines or publications (which may not have reached their target audience). One of my favourite Facebook pages is Gibraltar Writers...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

International Women’s Day: Reflect on progress, reaffirm our commitment

By Christian Santos, Minister for Equality, Employment, Culture and Tourism This year’s United Nations theme for International Women’s Day, “Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls,” could not be better timed. We are witnessing a worrying reality around the world where the rights of women and girls, which many assumed had...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

Will prices rise after April?

Behind the technical notices and tax rates, pricing is already under pressure. So, who will pay come April 10? By David Revagliatte A recent headline about rising cocoa prices caught my eye. Not because I eat vast quantities of chocolate (though I wouldn’t complain), but because I immediately wondered what that meant for the businesses...

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Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

Vallejo: Let me share with you a story of City Mill Lane

This week Alice’s Table will revolve around the area of City Mill Lane where two brothers were born a few years apart. I sat and chatted to them separately at Alice’s Table as they both contribute to this community in very different ways – but their stories begin in the town area and at around...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

A moment for honesty and clarity

By Marlene Hassan Nahon Throughout my career as a politician, I applied one fundamental principle to my politics. Honesty. An honest position, with all its complications and nuances, is always preferable to a simple but dishonest narrative, even if that position does not fully align with your interests. That is because honesty and nuance nurture...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

International Women’s Day: Redesigning the Foundations

By Atrish Sanchez As International Women’s Day approaches, we will rightly celebrate the progress women in Gibraltar have made. And we should. But celebration without honesty risks mistaking progress for completion. For many women, choice is still more constrained than we like to admit, particularly when the equity to sustain it is not there. My...

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Guest Contributor

Opinion & Analysis

The Treaty - Prize v Price 

By Sir Peter Caruana  I start with a summary of my view on the Treaty: I support the Treaty, but the UK must give us certain necessary reassurances and the Gibraltar Parliament should not definitively trigger ratification until we have them. I have no reason to doubt that the Treaty, which I have read and...

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Dominique Searle

Opinion & Analysis

The Correspondent: One foot in ‘another place’

So who might be Lord Calpe? Or better said, will there be a Lord Calpe? Politics may well be, as Sir Joshua Hassan often used to remind people, the art of the possible. But it is also often the art of setting out intangible rabbits to chase. This debate gets a resurgence, not just because...

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Alice Mascarenhas

Opinion & Analysis

The Theatre Royal still a part of our living memory, let us meet one of its ushers

The Theatre Royal – no longer with us - is a world away. Many years ago, it was a major part of the collective identity of life in Gibraltar. All social classes formed part of this collective. It will come as no surprise to many of my own personal interest in this area. The Theatre...