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22nd October 2024
I’ve been away for the weekend to Rehoboth Beach, in Delaware. It’s about a two-hour drive from Washington DC. I think the only point of reference I have for it is that it looks a bit like the coast on the way up to Málaga, but without all the English pubs. The seafront, however, is...
21st October 2024
By Robert Vasquez The lack of a Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, to have oversight of public finances and any mismanagement of those, has been highlighted by the GSD opposition again. All territories with British connection - Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Saint Helena and the Turks and Caicos Islands...
19th October 2024
This week Alice’s Table returns to the guides and directories. The many of you who give mention to the interesting details found in these historically charged columns in which I try to uncover some forgotten elements from our past has once again led me to opening more pages. So here we are again. This time...
18th October 2024
Just how rapidly AI is advancing was thrown into stark relief by one Gibraltar bank this week as its chief outlined how his efficiency levels are now “off the charts,” using ChatGPT. Gibraltar-born CEO of Bitcoin-enabled Xapo Bank Seamus Rocca, who recently launched a Bitcoin hedge fund in excess of $200m with the Hilbert Group,...
16th October 2024
The cooler weather, shorter days and longer nights mean one thing, and that is that cosy season is here to stay. But most importantly, it’s the time of the year when I invariably start rewatching some of my comfort TV shows again. These are old TV series that I may have first watched as a...
14th October 2024
By Geraldine Canepa What is the Menopause? Menopause; a word most women come to dread. It is commonly associated with the end of a woman’s reproductive years, in fact a woman is only considered to be in the menopause after a whole year without a period. Younger women can also go through the menopause when...
12th October 2024
Exclusive preview of his work at London’s National Portrait Gallery It may come as a surprise to many when internationally acclaimed Gibraltarian artist Christian Hook confesses, he is not interested in painting - “it is not the path that keeps me going,” he reveals. But that is what he does, I hear you say. Yes,...
9th October 2024
By Richard Cartwright From pin, name or button badges, antiques – including vintage automobiles – to what you might least think is a collectable ... and it’s all happening right here on this little Rock of ours with so many individuals just quietly getting on with it. The collections are amazing. That’s why it often...
8th October 2024
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, delivered his annual address to the Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee) of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Monday. His speech was as follows: Madam Chair, Every year we hear the Spanish representative tell you the same thing. They talk about resolutions of the General...
8th October 2024
By Eric Rowbottom The Paralympics are done and dusted. I hope you all got the chance to watch elite athletes, at the peak of their performances, compete in the different sports and categories. So what did we learn? Hopefully, you realised that everyone can achieve greatness when you set your mind to it, you train...
5th October 2024
Last week we began a conversation about the music which influenced Gibraltar’s young musicians who were already part of the music scene in their early to mid-teens. They did not read a note of music and the music they played they learned with their musical ear picking up the chords and harmonies from the records...
4th October 2024
By Simon Warburton GFSB Wellness A series of wellness events has been unveiled by the Gibraltar Federation of Small Businesses (GFSB) with the first iteration having taken place on September 19. Sponsored by Infinity Group, the initiative aims to support the health and well-being of small business employees and employers in Gibraltar. Well-being at Work...
2nd October 2024
Sometimes it is that juicy catch-up with a good friend, sometimes it can be a comfort meal shared with my family, or sometimes it can be time spent in solitude, at peace and perfectly content. Over the past 10 years I have been practising gratitude and actively looked for those “glimmers” or those moments of...
1st October 2024
By Robert Vasquez GSLP/Liberal Minister Nigel Feetham’s new projected property tax law is flawed in two primary ways. It gives some an unmerited tax break. It sends shivers through the finance centre and betting sector over the possible introduction of a capital gains tax. Yet the main beneficiaries, property developers, are allowed huge tax and...