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GSD INCREASES TELEPHONE CHARGES

The policy of the GSD seems to be to raise all forms of individual costs of Gibraltar residents. Not content with raising water, electricity and now threatening to increase rents, they are now set to raise local telephone charges.

Whereas in Spain and UK telephone users are inundated with offers from competing telephone companies, the position here is that there is virtually a captive market for Gibtelecom of which the government is 50% owner.

GIB WIN AT UN

Joe Bossano has achieved an important change in the procedures of the UN Seminars which until now had produced reports heavily influenced by the Spanish and Argentinian participants. These were then published as the views of all participants. This has been a long standing complaint by both the Government and the Opposition at the UN.

MINISTER INDIFFERENT OVER RADIOLOGY CRISIS!

Patients sent to mammography tests by their GP have told the Opposition that the length of time they have been kept waiting for a test is totally unacceptable, particularly
since their GP had indicated there was a chance that they might be suffering from cancer.

FEETHAM'S SEX LAW

Do you think that Danny Feetham is a fit and proper person to decide, in the exercise of his personal judgement and not in his role as a Government Minister, what is a crime and what is not?

MISINFORMED OR LYING? - GSD Committee Member doesn't know whether he is coming or going

In the recent GBC/TV programme over traffic recorded in a cafeteria in Irish Town, an individual who is not very well known locally claimed he was a member of a GSD committee set up to look into traffic matters in Gibraltar. Having heard fierce criticism at the continued closure of Dudley Ward Tunnel he voluntarily told all those present that the tunnel would be open by the end of this year.

WE MUST SUPPORT THOSE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED US

Glyn Ford has a long association with Gibraltar. After his first visit to Gibraltar in the early eighties he wrote a piece in The Tribune on his return to UK defending the right of the people of Gibraltar to self-determination. When he got elected into the European Parliament in Strasbourg he joined Alf Lomas and the late Tom Megahy to campaign for our right to vote in the European Elections which was being denied to us by a Conservative Government in UK, the same Government that had excluded us from voting when the Parliament was first set up. As part of the all-party group of MEPS he raised many issues on our behalf and defended Gibraltar’s right to be heard within the Socialist Group in Parliament which is the biggest political group in the EU.

CARUANA'S EXCESSES NOT OK IN UK

One of Peter Caruana ’s weaknesses is that he likes to surround himself with luxuries, like the Egyptian Pharoes used to do, probably because it makes him feel grand, his self-importance now being the subject of comments by journalists in the UK who seem to have seen through him.

QUE NO SE METAN CON MI CALETA! By: Florentino El Caleteno

Nuestros vecinos se han puesto farruco con esto de las aguas. Que no se metan ni con migo ni con mi Caleta porque aquí llevamos cogiendo morcillones, conchas finas y pulpos en estas aguas desde que mi bisabuela vino de Génova en los tiempos del Cuple. Vamos, como para que ahora venga ningún chalao a decirme a mí, a mi familia y a mi Caleta que no tenemos aguas.