Aspire Conference explores green issues from sustainable development to ‘rewilding the human spirit’

Aspire Conference explores green issues from sustainable development to ‘rewilding the human spirit’

6th June 2025

Over the past year, Gibraltar’s Town Planning Department has dealt with over 560 applications with a combined construction value of nearly half a billion pounds. The data was revealed by the Minister with responsibility for Town Planning, Gemma Arias Vasquez, during an address to the Aspire Conference, held on the Sunborn on Friday. Ms Arias...

Joe Gingell calls on public to help piece together Gib’s evacuation history

6th June 2025

Every Friday for the next few months Joe Gingell will be calling out to the public through this newspaper to put names to the faces of evacuees. For over 12 years Mr Gingell has researched the evacuation era, gathered more than 2,000 images, and has tried to put names to the people in the photos....

After meeting Doughty, Cross Frontier Group again urges speedy resolution to treaty negotiation

5th June 2025

The Cross Frontier Group reaffirmed the urgent need for a resolution of negotiations on Gibraltar’s post-Brexit after meeting the UK’s Minister for Europe, Stephen Doughty, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London on Thursday. The meeting offered an opportunity for the group, which brings together unions and business organisations from both sides of...

Protest at No.6 as Unite seeks firm timeline on health worker pay parity

5th June 2025

Unite the Union protested outside No.6 Convent Place on Thursday evening over a parity claim submitted by its Allied Health Professionals. Unite’s AHP members in the GHA and Elderly Residential Services are seeking pay parity with comparable roles in the UK; mechanisms to address pay inequality when compared to other clinical roles in the GHA;...

La Línea edges closer to ‘leap into 21st century’ as new urban plan officially presented

7th June 2025

by Maria Jesus Corrales La Línea city council officially presented its new urban plan (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana or PGOU, in Spanish) yesterday, replacing the previous one that has guided the city’s development for more than 40 years. Studied and drafted for over six years, the PGOU will allow the council to designate and...

Gibraltar and OTs ‘a critical element’ as UK moves to 'war-fighting readiness'

2nd June 2025

Military bases in Gibraltar and other Overseas Territories “remain a critical element” in the defence of UK sovereign territory and interests, according to a long-awaited Strategic Defence Review published by the UK Government on Monday. In launching the review, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK will move to “war-fighting readiness” and that all...

UK to support ‘mutually-agreed solution’ to Western Sahara, 'respecting self-determination'

2nd June 2025

The UK Government will adopt a new UK policy position towards Western Sahara, supporting a “mutually-agreed solution” that respects the principle of self-determination. The policy was announced during a visit to Morocco by Foreign Secretary David Lammy, where a series of agreements were signed to boost trade and investment between the UK and Morocco, ahead...

UK to build up to 12 new attack submarines and invest £15bn in warheads

2nd June 2025

By Helen Corbett, PA Political Correspondent The UK will build up to 12 new nuclear-powered attack submarines and invest £15 billion in its warhead programme, the Prime Minister will announce today as the UK Government unveils its strategic defence review. Significant investment in the UK nuclear warhead programme this parliament and maintaining the existing stockpile...