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Arts & Leisure 46 When Thick is Genius 52 Designs on Fashion?

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Health & Well-being 55 Get Well Soon 58 Health Directory 59 Here’s Health 60 Childline’s Blue Week

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Interview 28 Elio Cruz: Playing with Words 72 A Rebel with a Good Cause

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About Gibraltar 44 64 The Governor’s Ghostly

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Is ‘Offshore’ Really That Bad? — and, if not, does the international finance industry in Gibraltar face a bright future?

I’ve come to the conclusion that, despite my bluster and non-stop talking, I am really quite sensitive deep down. After all, what is a chap to think when he is confronted by a steady stream of news stories — mainly but not exclusively in the British and Spanish printed media — berating the offshore finance industry and, by extension, all of us who work in the sector?

When a lady asked my partner at a dinner not so long ago what it was that I did for a living, the reply “offshore – companies, trusts and all that” was greeted, apparently, with derision. “Oh you mean dodgy, darling” was the instant response. “Charming”, I thought when the story was relayed to me some time afterwards. “Darling yourself!”

But the stories persist. Try and find a sympathetic note in any newspaper article on the subject and you’re likely to be looking for

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a long time. Just over a year ago, one of the UK’s leading papers screamed “The Monaco Problem” across its front page. Closer inspection revealed that the “problem” concerned certain people wealthy enough to have made their home in the enclave and — shock horror — now avoid paying UK income tax as a result.

The new incumbent’s in-tray will no doubt be swamped by the tsunami of new regulations that accompany the shift to global tax transparency

words | Ian Le Breton

One of them — in the spirit of Reservoir Dogs, let’s call him Mr Green — runs a high street retail empire employing many thousands the “story” continued.

But despite all the insinuation, the article did not say that any of these people had actually done anything wrong. Nor did it mention that its own publisher operates a total of 136 subsidiaries in nations identified as “international tax havens”. Pot, kettle?

It’s time to fight back. In reality, the only thing dodgy about me is my dress sense — and I admit that can be very dodgy. The reason I don’t do “dress down Fridays” is because I have no idea what a 50-year-old should dress down into! As one of my colleagues said when I was recently sporting a new leather jacket from Morocco: “Since when did you become fashionable?” Strangely, he still works at Sovereign.

It will therefore come as no surprise that I am

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stridently opposed to this “dodgy” term when it comes to offshore — or as many now prefer to call it “international” — finance centre business. Let me set out a few pointers as to why I think this, specifically relating to our centre here in Gibraltar although one could consider several other jurisdictions in the same light.

It may seem strange to begin my defence with an admission. As in many walks of life, from time to time rotten apples will appear in the barrel — and Gibraltar is no different. It is simply a fact of life. In my view rotten apples are best dealt with swiftly and transparently, not by trying to sweep them under the carpet.

And although the process can be painful and unpleasant, it is the way that such problems are resolved that sets one jurisdiction aside from another.

The finance centre here is regulated by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, led ably for the last ten years by Marcus Killick who stepped down in February. Any regrets he may have had at leaving a job after a decade surely being tempered by the shiny new OBE awarded him in the recent New Year Honours List. In thanking him for his long stewardship over the past decade and wishing him all the very best for the future, I also welcome warmly his successor, Samantha Barrass, who joins at a most interesting time for the industry.

As well as the vital role of regulating the local sector effectively, while enabling those firms and individuals to continue to make their substantial contribution to the local economy, the new incumbent’s in-tray will also no doubt be swamped by the tsunami of new regulations that accompany the shift to global tax transparency, the implications of the US FATCA rules and parallel legislation from Europe.

So if we accept then that we are all jolly serious people and that we — and the firms for whom we toil — are here to stay, it is essential that our local international finance industry sets out its stall properly. By this I mean it is important how we as an industry firstly identify and then more importantly promote ourselves to the outside world. It is only by getting this right that we can ensure our industry can re-

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alistically look forward to a sustainable future.

Regular readers will know that from time to time I set out services and products that our industry promotes and develops here in Gibraltar. The overriding principle is that everything we do must be fully compliant and transparent. That is not to say that clients cannot expect complete confidentiality when organising their financial affairs. That is right and proper and has been a part of the “bond”

It is important how we as an industry firstly identify and then more importantly promote ourselves to the outside world. It is only by getting this right that we can ensure our industry can realistically look forward to a sustainable future between clients and their advisers since time immemorial. But this is not the same thing as secrecy at all.

In this case, I practice what I preach. In my day job, if for whatever reason I am not totally happy that the proposed structure on the table in front of me — whether it involves a company or trust, a pension plan or perhaps the registration of a super yacht or executive jet — is going to pass all the tests to ensure compliance and transparency, I will proffer the following advice to potential clients or their adviser.

“Of course,” I say, “You are entitled to 100% confidentiality when coming in to my office to discuss your affairs but you must understand that both you and I may have a legal duty to report certain elements of a transaction or structure to the relevant authorities. And even if there is no legal duty to report, we would want to be certain that the structure would

be fully compliant if it had to be reported in future.” It is interesting to note the reaction on some peoples’ faces.

So why do I have such confidence in the future of our industry locally? There are several reasons. In these monthly columns, I have discussed a number of potential situations where the use of one or more “offshore” companies, trusts or similar structures might assist in realising practical objectives — whether they be tax advantages, asset protection or facilitating cross border business.

Take Gibraltar companies as just one example. These can be used to provide enhanced asset protection both in very straightforward arrangements or as part of a wider, more complex structure that may involve several other jurisdictions as well. Other companies may appear to offer similar advantages but Gibraltar’s reputation for good regulation and corporate governance, coupled with a wide choice of experienced multi-lingual professionals and a solid legal system, may be sufficient reason to prefer this jurisdiction over its competitors.

Combine these with the benign corporate tax regime, the absence of VAT and Gibraltar’s membership of the EU and you have what is, in my humble view, a highly compelling package.

Gibraltar certainly punches above its weight in the international market as our sector proves time and time again.

So in order to answer the critics in the British and Spanish press, we should ask a few telling questions. Does Gibraltar have the legislation in place and more importantly the will to impose regulation and is it used effectively to ensure the industry remains compliant? Yes. Do we have the product range to service an increasingly sophisticated and international market place? Absolutely. Do we employ experienced, multi-lingual staff who can attend to clients’ needs? Without a doubt. Has Gibraltar proved that she can adapt to changing demands from bodies like the OECD and IMF or international partners like the EU or the USA? Once again, a resounding yes.

So to the final big question. Does Gibraltar’s international finance industry have a bright future? Despite — or maybe partly because of — the challenges we have faced and met in recent years, those firms who have adapted and kept pace with the changing international scene are, I think, in an excellent place. Despite the negative press articles we should be proud of what we have achieved and, unless they’re referring to my dress sense, we should not miss an opportunity to re-educate anyone who calls us “dodgy”. n

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Hassans’ record number of partner promotions Hassans International Law Firm is delighted to announce that a record number of senior associates have been promoted to partnership with effect from the 1st July 2013.

Managing Partner, Javier Chincotta stated, “These promotions take our total number of partners to 36. The quality and depth of experience that each one brings to the table is significant in driving forward the future of the firm”.

The new partners are: Emma Azopardi-Lejeune, a Cardiff University graduate, called to the Bar in England & Wales in 2005. Emma recently successfully completed a diploma in Family Business Advising and is currently undertaking a course in International Estate and Succession Planning.

Emma specialises in corporate and commercial law and has assisted numerous private clients in relocating and structuring their affairs in Gibraltar. She has also been involved in corporate restructures, business set ups in Gibraltar (in particular gaming operations), acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions.

Michael Nahon, a Westminster University graduate, admitted to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1999. Michael is also

called to the Gibraltar Bar. Michael has developed a niche practice in privacy law, regularly advising multinational corporations as well as the local gaming and banking sectors on their Gibraltar data protection obligations. Michael also contributes to data protection publications such as DLA’s Data Protection Laws of the World Handbook and PDP Journals. Aside from data protection, he also advises on intellectual property, corporate and commercial

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These promotions take our total number of partners to 36. The quality and depth of experience that each one brings to the table is significant in driving forward the future of the firm

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law matters and carries out private client work.

Anthony Provasoli, a graduate from Nottingham Trent University, was called to the Bar in England & Wales and the Gibraltar Bar in 2005. Anthony specialises in corporate, commercial and financial services matters.

His work also includes advising on matters of sports law and telecommunications regulation.

Maxi Torres, a Kingston graduate, was called to the Bar in England & Wales in 2005.

He advises private client and corporate and commercial matters in particular corporate restructures and acquisitions. He regularly advises on the establishment of offshore structures and operations corporate, specialising in restructuring, sales, acquisitions and cross-border transactions.

Gemma Vasquez (née Arias), a graduate from Oriel College, Oxford University, who qualified as a solicitor in Slaughter and May. Gemma specialises in corporate restructuring and has recently worked advising the Government of Gibraltar in revising the Companies

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Maxi Torres, Emma Azopardi-Lejeune, Antony Provasoli, Gemma Vasquez and Michael Nahon

Act, which is looking to come into force in 2014.

Senior Partner, James Levy CBE QC, commented: “I am delighted that Emma, Michael, Anthony, Maxi and Gemma have joined the Partner-

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ship and I am sure they will continue to prove to be tremendous assets to the firm. This record number of promotions, in recent years, to partnership from our internal ranks shows the quality of lawyers and staff that we attract. It

also demonstrates the firm’s commitment and expertise both from a product and geographic perspective which has continuously allowed us to offer the best quality of service to all our clients, locally and worldwide”. n

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Green Light Ahead: Mind The Speed Limit!

In early February 2014 Societe Generale Private Banking Hambros Gibraltar hosted a breakfast investment seminar at the Wessex Lounge, Gibraltar International Airport to give a “Macro Economic Overview and Outlook” for 2014.

Based on the theme “Green Light Ahead, Mind the Speed Limit”, Eric Verleyen, Chief Investment Officer of Societe Generale Private Banking Hambros and Claudia Panseri, Equity Strategist of Societe Generale Private Banking, presented the economic and investment outlook for 2014 and explained their strategies for clients’ investment portfolios over the year ahead.

The speakers looked ahead to 2014 indicating that it will be a year of further economic “normalisation”, which should remain supportive for cyclical and risky assets, especially in advanced economies. The call for better economic prospects in 2014 remains unchanged, and confidence is now higher.

They said there is clearly better visibility, with fewer identified uncertainties. For example, geopolitical tensions have greatly eased, Eurozone sovereign stress has waned and the US fiscal dispute is over.

They explained that whilst interest rate rises are nearer, they are not expected this year in Europe, UK or the US. Whilst some “tapering” (reduction in bond buying) by the Federal Reserve (FED) is expected shortly liquidity will remain very good and after a short period of adjustment markets are expected to remain supported by growth and strong corporate

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earnings.

However, they confirmed that they cannot help tempering optimism for 2014 with some reminders of caution as improved visibility on what is known should not to be confused with lower risks overall. The world is, of course, full of uncertainties and surprises. n

Geopolitical tensions have greatly eased, Eurozone sovereign stress has waned and the US fiscal dispute is over

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KPMG 2014 eGaming Summit Gibraltar KPMG has confirmed that the fourth in its eGaming Summit series in Gibraltar will take place on 3rd April 2014 on board Ocean Village’s latest addition, the Sunborn.

Spanning both Gibraltar and the Isle of Man, this year the KPMG eGaming Summit series celebrates its fourth anniversary and its increasingly popular position in the online gaming industry calendar.

Gibraltar’s 2013 summit drew over 170 delegates from as far afield as Germany, the US, and Italy, and saw a selection of speakers, including local government ministers, regulatory and legal experts, operators and infrastructure specialists, broach such issues as the UK’s proposed point of consumption tax, the 4th Europe-

Gibraltar’s 2013 summit drew over 170 delegates from as far afield as Germany, the US, and Italy an Money Laundering Directive and EU policy on cross-border gambling issues.

Although the full speaker lineup is not yet finalised, KPMG is pleased to confirm that it will be hosting three panel sessions which will respectively tackle the key issues for gaming operators, payments providers, and legislators and regulators — the latter

provided by global law firm and Summit sponsors, DLA Piper. In keeping with the successes of previous events, this year’s Summit will also feature local industry and global updates, as well as a series of presentations and breakouts on the latest hot topics in eGaming.

Commenting on the announcement, Managing Director and summit organiser, Micky Swindale said: “Each year the KPMG eGaming Summits grow in popularity and scale, and 2014 is no exception. When we first set out to create a collaborative forum to discuss the latest eGaming issues, we never imagined that its renown would grow so quickly”. KPMG’s Head of eGaming, Archie Watt, continued; “Indeed it is now apparent that the Summit series has come at an important juncture for the industry, one in which sharing information is vital to protecting its reputation for customer care, regulatory and legislative reinforcement, and technological advancement. KPMG are committed to remaining at the forefront of this movement and we look forward to welcoming all of our delegates to the Sunborn this April.” n For more information on the KPMG eGaming Summit Gibraltar series, visit www.kpmg.gi/egamingsummit. To request an invitation, email abbykimber@kpmg.gi.

Russell Kelly (KPMG’s Director of Audit & Advisory), Micky Swindale (Managing Director of KPMG Gibraltar) and Archie Watt (Head of eGaming, KPMG Gibraltar)

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Dignity at Work

words | Leah Carnegie, The HR Dept

Q: I read recently that a Bill for Dignity at Work

has been submitted, what does this mean?

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Gibraltar is committed to creating an environment of positive working relationships. To preserve and protect such an environment, all organisation will have policies and procedures that set out standards of conduct that must be observed and enable staff to raise concerns, to be provided with a response and for those concerns to be addressed in an appropriate forum and to obtain an appropriate remedy.

Gibraltar believes that every employee has the right to be treated with equality, dignity and respect in the workplace and is committed to providing a supportive working environment to foster such a work culture.

By addressing unacceptable behaviour and promoting positive behaviour this procedure fully underpins the vision and values of all trades within Gibraltar.

The purpose of the dignity at work policy is to ensure a culture of working relationships in which everyone is treated with dignity and respect, where harassment is known to be unacceptable and individuals have the confidence to deal with and challenge harassment or bullying without fear of ridicule or reprisals.

Definitions Harassment is unwanted conduct in working relationships affecting the dignity of employees. It is actions or comments that are viewed as demeaning and unacceptable to the recipient or that create a hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for a member of staff.

Harassment includes any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, for example, unwelcome sexual advances, touching, standing too close and the display of offensive materials.

Bullying can be defined as persistent, offensive, abusive, intimidating or malicious behaviour, abuse of power or sanctions which makes the recipient feel threatened, humiliated or vulnerable and which undermines self-confidence.

Examples include shouting in public, persistent or unfair criticism, ostracising people, threats and instilling fear, inappropriate use of email, spreading malicious rumours, constantly undervaluing effort, withholding information, removing areas of responsibility and imposing inappropriate tasks.

Unacceptable behaviour can take many forms and can range from physical attack to more subtle conduct. It can include actions, jokes or suggestions that might create a

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workplace stressful working environment. It can also include the production, distribution, display or communication and discussion of material that may give rise to offence. It includes behaviour which deliberately or inadvertently excludes individuals from normal activities in the workplace.

Certain behaviour or actions may be acceptable to one individual while unacceptable to another. It is the deed and the impact on the recipient, which constitutes harassment. The recipient has a responsibility to make their colleague aware that they find it unacceptable and ideally to explain why.

Everyone has a responsibility to behave in a way that is not offensive to others and to acknowledge that views and opinions held by others, and decisions made by managers and supervisors, may not always coincide with their own. Such differences are unlikely to constitute harassment.

It must be recognised that those in positions of authority have both a right and responsibility to discharge managerial duties. In so doing they may need to adopt a firm or assertive style, but they should take care not to demean, devalue or intimidate employees.

An employee found to be making mischievous or malicious complaints is likely to be subject to their Company’s disciplinary procedure.

In summary, all employees are entitled:

✔ To be treated with dignity, respect and courtesy. ✔ To a workplace free from bullying, harassment or victimisation. ✔ To experience no form of

discrimination. ✔ To be valued for their skills and abilities. ✔ To be appointed and developed on the basis of merit.

An environment which values the diversity of people and aims to enhance individual potential will recruit, retain and develop people on merit and attract the best staff. Your Company needs to be diverse and representative of the local community, and a place where people value each other — become an Employer of Choice.

riding responsibility in eradicating language or behaviour that is contrary to this policy by fostering an atmosphere of dignity and respect and managing people in a professional and respectful manner. They are responsible for ensuring that these standards of behaviour are known to all staff. They are also responsible for ensuring that their own behaviour is of the highest standard and that appropriate and prompt action is taken on offensive behaviour.

All line managers are responsible for setting a good example by treating all employees with dignity and respect. They are responsible for ensuring that all their staff are aware of the behaviour expected of them and that unacceptable conduct is challenged and corrected.

Managers are expected to foster an open, fair, equitable culture, managing conflict, and developing, empowering and sustaining individuals and teams.

Responsibility of All All board members and non-executive directors, managers and staff share the responsibility to create an environment where we can make measurable progress on equality and diversity and where we genuinely respect Examples of good management practice are: people’s differences. ✔ setting achievable time limits and standards Directors and senior managers have an overof work;

Unacceptable behaviour can take many forms and can range from physical attack to more subtle conduct. It can include actions, jokes or suggestions that might create a stressful working environment

✔ positively supporting the performance of individual workers e.g. through induction, personal development and appraisal; ✔ addressing matters of performance, attendance and conduct through the appropriate procedures on the occasions where they fall short of acceptable standards in a prompt and professional manner; and ✔ applying the relevant procedures fairly.

All employees are expected to treat colleagues, managers, stakeholders or members of the public to whom they provide a service fairly, respectfully and with dignity. n

Sights set on being an Insurance Linked Securities jurisdiction Gibraltar plans to become an Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) jurisdiction within the European Union. The ILS market has grown significantly in recent years and the total volume of catastrophe bonds and ILS issued during 2013 was more than $7.5 billion and by the end 2013 there was an all-time high of $20.5 billion of outstanding catastrophe bonds and ILS.

AON’s Director and Global ILS Practice Leader, Liz Frederick, who is based in the Cayman Islands recently provided ILS training for Gibraltar’s Financial Services Commission and a number of Gibraltar’s legal and accounting firms. Liz Frederick has previously trained other insurance regulators on insurance linked securities.

Gibraltar’s Insurance Companies (Special Purpose Vehicles) Regulations 2009 will be the primary legislation for Gibraltar to enter

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the ILS market and its 2001 Protected Cell Companies legislation will be an attractive part of Gibraltar’s ILS offering.

Gibraltar has a vibrant and growing insurance sector with gross premium income for all Gibraltar’s insurance companies in

2012 exceeding £3.8 billion. Gibraltar’s motor insurers had a 16% share of the UK motor market in 2012.

Albert Isola, Minister for Financial Services said, “The Gibraltar insurance industry has grown significantly over the past ten years, in particular the motor sector. We are very proud of the progress that has been achieved and we are keen to develop other and complementary areas of insurance. We believe that insurance linked securities offer one such opportunity. I am grateful for the support and effort that AON has provided in the recent training programme for the Financial Services Commission.

“I am pleased to announce that Gibraltar Finance, together with a number of industry participants, will be attending the Insurance and Risked Linked Securites Conference 2014 (IRLS) in New York on 4th and 5th March.

This annual conference is widely regarded as the leading global forum for updates, strategies and insights into the ILS industry and is expected to be attended by over 400 delegates from around the world.” n

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E-money:

the alternative payment

method

words | the Banking, E-Money and Investment Services Division, Gibraltar Financial Services Commission

Electronic money, or e-money, is a buzz word in the world of financial services. Electronic payments have risen by approximately 20% year on year over the last four years and in the US, for example, it is an important payment method for retail customers.

But what exactly is electronic money and what are its uses?

In simple terms, e-money is a substitute for hard currency i.e. cash. It also serves as an alternative for more established payment mechanisms such as credit cards, travellers’ cheques or debit cards. E-money has several distinctive features in that it is stored electronically, is transferred electronically, all transactions are recorded and, perhaps uniquely, the transaction process involves multiple parties.

There are various forms of e-money available. The most common of these are prepaid cards and digital wallets.

Prepaid cards are either non reloadable or reloadable and operate on either one of an ‘open’ or ‘closed’ loop payment networks. ‘Open’ looped networks, such as MasterCard or Visa, are multiparty and operate through a system that connects financial institutions (primarily card issuers and merchants) allowing the flow of funds and information between them.

‘Closed’ loop payment services are typically provided directly by the owner of the network with no financial intermediaries — American

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Express and Diner, or supermarket store cards would be prime examples of closed loop payment systems.

The concept behind a prepaid card is relatively simple and works similarly to a prepaid phone card. When you use a prepaid card you load money from, for example, your bank account onto the card and can then only spend as much as you have loaded onto the card.

Most prepaid cards can be used anywhere that accepts Visa or MasterCard, and most can also be used to withdraw cash from an ATM. Cards

Transactions can range from on line purchases to using a smartphone to purchase something at a store via, for example, a mobile phone app

can also be used to shop online.

Digital wallets are electronic devices which allow individuals to make e-commerce transactions. Transactions can range from on line purchases to using a smartphone to purchase something at a store via, for example, a mobile phone app. The term “digital wallet” can also refer to three distinct aspects of the process: the system (the electronic infrastructure), the application (the software that operates on top) and the device (the individual portion).

Prepaid cards and digital wallets can have numerous uses. Primarily they can assist the following sectors of society: the young - for example, parents can use e-money products to educate on saving and control spending and can also be used for school trips so that kids do not have to take physical cash when travelling the unbanked - i.e. those who have no access to bank accounts and therefore no access to the more established payment mechanisms such as credit and debit cards

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persons with credit issues – prepaid cards only allow you to spend as much money as you have put onto the card upfront so you can control debt levels those with poor credit ratings holiday makers – to avoid taking large amounts of cash on trips migrant workers – allowing them to ‘share’ money with their families back home recipients of benefit payments – in the UK, for example, benefits can be paid into prepaid cards which the recipient can then use to purchase goods and services corporate entities for business expenses or payroll purposes E-money products can also be used for the receipt of lottery winnings or tax rebates and in the US this concept has already taken off and is readily available.

As with any other financial services product, there are, however, fees involved. Most prepaid cards, for example, will have a set-up fee and may also have loading and transaction fees. Despite this, in the longer term, prepaid cards could become the natural alternative to credit cards.

So how is the industry regulated?

In the EU, the first Electronic Money Directive and subsequently the Second Electronic Money Directive (“2EMD”), established a common European Framework for the regulation of Financial Institutions that issue electronic money. The 2EMD defines electronic money as “electronically, including magnetically, stored monetary value as represented by a claim on the issuer which is issued on receipt of funds for the purpose of making payment transactions and which is accepted by a natural or legal person other than the electronic money issuer” (Article 2(2), 2EMD). Prepaid instruments that can be used as a means of payment only within a limited network of service providers or for a limited range of goods and services — for example, a store card — are exempt from this definition.

In the EU, e-money can only be issued by credit institutions, e-money institutions, certain post office giro institutions, and the European and national central banks when not acting as a monetary or other public authority.

E-money issuers distribute their products in different ways, for example, by establishing a direct business relationship with the customer, or through distance selling means (such as the internet). E-money can also be distributed and redeemed by persons other than the issuer i.e. those commonly known as distributors. In addition, agents can provide payment services on an e-money institution’s behalf.

Within the EU, the UK is probably ahead of the field with a large number of operators issuing e-money and a large cross section of society making use of prepaid cards and digital wallets. Having said this, it is likely that wider acceptance in what has historically and predominantly been very much a cash-focused society still remains as the main challenge facing e-money today. n

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WTCG will be the only Gibraltar office development connected directly to the new Europe-India undersea fibre-optic cable which gives 100GB bandwidth and data transfer speeds of 3.2TB per second

All Systems Go for WTCG Following an agreement with the Government of Gibraltar in mid-February, the £45m, World Trade Center Gibraltar project is expected to break ground in the first half of 2014 and be ready for occupation by the end of 2015.

Delivering a world-class working environment in what will be the largest single office building on the Rock at 15,464m², World Trade Center Gibraltar (WTCG) will be intrinsic to the next phase of Gibraltar’s economic growth. The project’s Head of Sales and Marketing, Pete Burgess, said, “It will put Gibraltar even more firmly on the world business map and provide local enterprises with the opportunity to promote themselves across the globe through the World Trade Center Association...

“World Trade Center Gibraltar will become a trusted partner for companies in Gibraltar and offer space to businesses of all sizes, from one man start-ups to major corporates, helping them to profitably manage growth,” continues Pete. “It will be the perfect entry point to the territory for new companies that wish to take advantage of Gibraltar’s wellknown corporate tax benefits.

“Businesses locate to World Trade Centers across the globe because they know they will get premium quality accommodation and service at the world’s signature corporate address. That is why World Trade Center is home to some of the world’s biggest brands such as Apple, MasterCard and J.P.Morgan.

In fact, the majority of the world’s top 500 corporations have an office in a World Trade

Center.”

The developer also believes the project will act as a catalyst for attracting digital businesses to Gibraltar by being the only office development in the territory connected directly to the new Europe-India undersea fibre-optic cable which gives 100GB bandwidth and data transfer speeds of 3.2TB per second. This will allow trading on the major stock exchanges in milliseconds.

WTCG will have ground floor parking as well as allocated spaces in a new 500-space multi-storey car park, a 24 hour double-height reception, breakout and relaxation areas for employees and visitors, an international café brand, and a landscaped tree-filled atrium running the full length of the building.

“It’s little wonder contracts have already been issued to our anchor tenant and negotiations are ongoing for a ‘big five’ accountancy firm and a New York securities trader,” Burgess concludes.

The project, from the same developer as Ocean Village, is accompanied by the planned construction of nearby short-stay residential accommodation to help alleviate the current shortage, and an additional 900m² of ecofriendly healthy working offices which are already under construction. The first phase, Trinity House, is at an advanced stage and scheduled for completion over the next few months. Using solid cross-laminated timber from sustainably grown forests, it’s the first nearly carbon-neutral building in Gibraltar. The new offices have already been pre-let to a private international bank and to a European lottery company, bringing 100 desk-based jobs to the Rock.

Over the last five years Gibraltar’s economy has flourished despite the global economic turmoil.

Gibraltar’s GDP is estimated to have grown by 35% with 7.8% in 2012/2013 alone – and is ranked in the top 20 for growth globally. Shipping, financial services, tourism, and more recently, online gaming (28 e-gaming firms now account for 20% of Gibraltar’s GDP), form the keystones.

Unemployment is less than 2%.

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interview doing some great work for “Gibraltar PLC” some of them you will all know, some you won’t... so let’s start with Martyn.

How do you link with the local community and what role do you play in it?

I am the Simmons Gainsford partner primarily responsible for Gibraltar and whilst we have a small presence in Gibraltar we are part of a growing medium size firm with our principal offices in London supporting both local partners and staff in Gibraltar, as well as UK partners and staff, in providing a seamless local and international service.

Our Gibraltar offering includes audit and those of you in this business will know that all Gibraltar accountants need to pass the local Gibraltar audit exam which I had to do and I have to say that it was tough, not helped by the fact that now being in my fifties it had been a long time since I had taken a formal exam! I’m pleased to say that I passed in the end! So here in Gibraltar, I support our local team of accountants, tax and insolvency practitioners, and litigation support personnel. I try to find financial and commercial solutions to client problems, and deal with their compliance issues.

I also attempt to enhance business by putting people together.

I am pleased I was nominated to lead our Gibraltar offering. I love being in Gibraltar where I find people friendly and helpful. Being relatively new to the jurisdiction, I am impressed by the professionalism and commerciality of businessmen and their advisors across the board. The very fact that Gibraltar has local tough exams proves that point!

Martyn Pizer of Simmons Gainsford Gibraltar LLP

Interview: Martyn Pizer — Simmons Gainsford Gibraltar After last month’s Valentine’s Day edition, I thought we should get back to business although before I leave all that love and relationship stuff behind, I just want to pick up on something that I mentioned last month — the importance of building and maintaining business relationships. As I said last time, just like any other relationship, they require on-going investment and effort.

If I look back over the years, there have been many relationships where keeping in touch has not only been enjoyable but has also paid dividends for both sides. One such relationship that springs to mind is with the Partners of Simmons Gainsford, a top 50 UK accountancy firm where our relationship goes back to the late 1990s.

As you know Gibraltar became my home over eight years ago and whilst the majority of my business has been on the Rock, I always kept in contact with the partners at Simmons

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What do you typically say to people when they ask you what you do?

I would love to say a football coach as football is my passion although I would say that I am a business adviser and a problem solver.

What is the single most important reason for your success?

Care: caring for our clients. It is important to demonstrate that we care and can find solutions in-house or elsewhere, in a timely manner.

The Gibraltar team cares. Without that care, we have only a compliance offering. It should be what distinguishes an accountancy practice.

Our size means that the local Gibraltar team can act in a non-bureaucratic and responsive manner.

What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?

Apart from passing the Gibraltar audit exam!? It has been developing the practice of a top fifty UK firm for over 23 years. This has been both challenging and rewarding, particularly seeing start ups become international brands. Its culmination is our Simmons Gainsford internationalism; our Gibraltar offering.

Helping start-up businesses has been part and parcel of that achievement and this is reflected in our own Gibraltar start up, which has now bedded in to become a leading local practice.

Gainsford. I was rewarded, as was Gibraltar when the firm decided to open its first overseas office here in Gibraltar; you could say that it was like going back to the old days when we started working together again.

The lucky partner from the London offices of Simmons Gainsford that stepped forward to oversee the Gibraltar operation was Martyn Pizer.

Moving forward into 2014 and certainly until What are the things that you most love the end of the year, I would like to profile some about your job? of our key business men and women who are Helping clients, through our range of skill

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interview business and how to succeed. But I didn’t like took off sets, both here and in the UK. I get a buzz form helping clients achieve their his salary of $1 pa. I guess the dividends from Best advice anyone has given to you — aspirations and creating and maintaining long Apple helped! who were they and how did you use it? term relationships in the process.

“We are all God’s people” from my Mother.

Describe a time when you made the It’s how I try and interact fairly with everyone. wrong decision What is your least favourite part of doing Fixing my mortgage as rates were coming Every one is equal and we must respect others; what you do?

Reviewing audit files! I always worry I am down, although at least that gave me the se- this shaped how I am today. going to miss something. Touch wood (and as curity in knowing what I would pay..... that’s What movie (no matter how many times far as I know) it has yet to happen! But I always why I don’t give financial investment advice! you’ve watched it) do you have to watch, seek to add value through the audit process. If I when it comes on? see an issue during the audit process, whereby Any ambitions not yet fulfilled?

The Magnificent Seven. I love this film where I can I can add value, this lessens this least I am embarrassed to say that I have still not the good triumph over the bad and the bullies favourite aspect. been up to the top of the Rock and I feel bad are defeated. The idealist in me! Steve Mcabout this having climbed the Masada is Israel Queen is by far my favourite actor. You could Tell me how you first got involved with last year. My excuse is that I am always too say that I am obsessed by this film, I even have Gibraltar? busy in our office to actually do the fun things it on my iPhone and yes I do know all the words It all goes back to when I was three and I in Gibraltar! off by heart! arrived in Gibraltar on a cruise with my parents and I created somewhat of an incident in Main Mountain hideaway or beach house?

See you next month for the next interview Street as I got separated from my parents!

It has got to be a beach house and this goes with a leading Gibraltar business person. n More recently, and I am going back around back to the many happy memories that I have 10 years ago, at Simmons Gainsford we started when I was a child in the 1960s and 1970s Paul Wharton is writing in his own capacity and doing the financial statements for a number of holidaying with my parents in southern Eu- none of the above is intended to express the views fiduciary companies with links to Gibraltar and rope when those first cheap package holidays or opinions of Barclays Bank PLC. recognised the attraction of residency in Gibraltar for number of our high net worth individual clients. The rest is history; we have opened an office and after 30 months into the role I Paul Wharton is Head of Corporate Banking at Barclays Wealth & still love the Mediterranean climate and its Investment Management in Gibraltar having arrived on the Rock from the architecture, combined with the British ethos.

UK eight years ago. Paul has over three decades’ experience gained in various roles within Barclays, predominantly in and around London and is passionate about supporting the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) market which he sees as the lifeblood of the Gibraltar economy. Paul has won several awards for his work in Small Business Enterprise markets and has served on the London Board of the Prince’s Trust.

What book do you think that every business person and of course, business student should read?

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finance

Gibraltar is key to unlocking regulation concerns

EU domicile is key to supporting AIFMD regulation, says the government of Gibraltar By 22nd June 2014, all nonUCITS funds marketed in the European Union are expected to comply with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). Yet despite less than five months until the deadline for complying, hedge fund administrators are reporting that up to a fifth of fund managers are still not prepared, suggesting that managers are struggling to understand how best to comply with the necessary requirements of AIFMD. A strong regulatory environment in each EU member state and guidelines from regulators are critical to providing fund managers with the necessary framework to ensure that the requirements of AIFMD are met by the looming deadline, says Nicola Smith, CEO of Gibraltar-based fund administrator, Helvetic Fund Administration Limited.

Mrs. Smith continues that full compliance with AIFMD is unavoidable and active steps should be and can still be taken during this final period to achieve compliance, or face penalties:

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“The implementation and the specific requirements of AIFMD have become a long running battle and the hedge funds industry in general has continued to voice its concerns as to the additional requirements and costs associated with fulfilling such requirements.

However, with just under five months until the deadline, managers need to consider that substantial delays in the application process are likely to ensue if the relevant arrangements are not dealt with, which may lead to the application deadline being missed.”

“All non-UCITS funds domiciled in the EU will eventually have to register with a local regulator or regulators and all non-UCITS funds managed by an EU based manager, wherever the fund is domiciled, will also eventually be subject to registration, even if the fund managed is out of scope of AIFMD. Our recommendation would be for managers to contact their service providers and find an affordable solution that is appropriate for their

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The fact that Gibraltar is part of the EU and fully compliant with AIFMD is a major benefit for those seeking to re-domicile a fund

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particular situation. By taking prompt action, managers will have a greater understanding of what arrangements need to be made in order to comply, and what support they can expect from their service providers,” continued Mrs Smith.

“Once AIFMD is in full force, the choice of whether fund managers manage vehicles domiciled and regulated in an EU location will be important. Historically, Dublin and Luxembourg have been preferred jurisdictions for funds, however in recent years, limited capacity and cost issues in these centres have allowed territories such as Gibraltar to develop as a viable alternative. Gibraltar offers a number of incentives as a jurisdiction, including access to a highly skilled workforce, a supportive infrastructure of ancillary services and lower business costs, which all point to Gibraltar being an ideal location for access to the EU with an attractive fiscal environment.”

These sentiments are echoed by Philip Canessa, Senior Executive of Gibraltar Finance, which is focused on advising the Gibraltar government on all financial services policy matters: “The fact that Gibraltar is part of the EU and fully compliant with AIFMD is a major benefit for those seeking to re-domicile a fund, as well as the fact that our fund regime is based on UK common law, domestic legislation and EU directives. It is these principles which we believe puts Gibraltar in its current position of rapid growth, and our dedication to implementation and preparing for regulations like AIFMD has put us in an excellent position.” n

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Remembering David Grant

“Not a day goes past without tears and laughter when remembering Dad. It feels strange to not receive his daily phone call or find him in his favourite venues. ”Dad gave me a lifetime of support and encouragement in all my endeavours and was proud of my achievements. He always had time for me and I loved spending time with him and laughing at his jokes… many of which I never understood!

“We were alike in so many ways, one of which being our love of food. It was dangerous having both of us loose at a free serve buffet!

My husband Paul always took a big box of Rennies to dad’s famous bratwurst sausage dinners as dad would spoon out huge portions for him saying he didn’t have enough.

“Losing Dad has been the most devastating event in my life but I am lucky to see so many of his traits in my sons. Josh has his big squashy hands and chin. Noah, who sadly never met his grandpa, has his calm and pensive disposition.

It seems incomprehensible that I will never see dad again, but as Josh always says ‘Grandpa is in the sky with God. You can’t see him but he can see you’.” ~ Anna

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On the 6th month anniversary of Image Graphics’ David Grant’s passing, his daughters share a few words to commemorate and celebrate the remarkable man he was.

“I’d best describe Dad as having an amazing combination of a quiet, calm temperament and a presence that spoke volumes! A stable and reassuring presence, and a constant in mine and many people’s lives. It’s hard not to feel the huge loss when someone like Dad is no longer here; I feel the loss is proportionate to the footprint left in this world and Dad’s was a pretty big one — literally! He didn’t do things in half measures. He had a strong, focused mindset coupled with unstoppable willpower that drove him to accomplish great things in his life, and his perseverance paid off in everything he pursued. What sticks with me perhaps more than anything was Dad’s strength, both in mind and body. Never was this more evident than when he became unwell — his courage and determination were and still are truly inspiring to me.

“To have had Dad as my dad is a blessing.

He brought so much to my life — so much care, happiness and laughter, so many priceless memories. Death can’t take those memories away or separate us from love. In the end, love is always stronger than death and Dad will live on eternally in the hearts of all those he touched.” ~ Julia

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“Dad had the gift of daring to adventure whilst at the same time being able to create stability and security for his family. He loved travel whilst understanding the need to tend and nurture things to grow at home. I miss you every single day.” ~ Katherine

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business profile

Image Graphics:

From the Beginning, Into the Future The name David Grant is synonymous with business activity in Gibraltar. A figure of standing and experience gained over 36 years of operations on the Rock, he had great business vision and carefully deliberated his course of action.

His company, Image Graphics, was incorporated on 15th December 1976 and began trading on 29th March 1977. The company’s ancestral home was an office in the then Holiday Inn (now the O’Callaghan Eliott Hotel) and Chief Minister, Sir Joshua Hassan, was invited to officiate at the opening ceremony.

A man with a cautious and measured approach in all aspects of his life, David believed that his business endeavours not only provided a solid foundation for his family but offered a service to the community by creating wealth and employment.

David’s passion for the world of printing was originally born when he became interested and intrigued by an innovative Xerox printer

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which had an ability to operate at 200 prints a minute. With the intention of investigating this printer more closely, he joined Rank Xerox in 1962 as an engineer. He soon switched to sales and worked his way up to District Sales

David believed that his business endeavours not only provided a solid foundation for his family but offered a service to the community by creating wealth and employment

Manager in the City of London, later moving to Sales Training.

In 1967, David applied for the position of General Manager for a branch of Rank Xerox to be opened in Kenya. He was the first man on the ground in very unfamiliar territory and proceeded to build and run the Kenya operation for the following seven years. During this time, he also formed Rank Xerox (Uganda) Ltd. and at the end of his tenure, he employed a total staff of some 150.

An opportunity then arose when a Xerox main Board Director invited David to set up a Xerox distributorship with him in Cyprus, Malta or Gibraltar. They subsequently chose Gibraltar and David and family first arrived

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Image Graphics’ Managing Director Katherine Grant, with her mum and fellow Director, Janet Grant outside the bureau in the Cornwall’s Centre.

Left: Katherine has seen the business grow from humble beginnings. Photo shows her aged two outside the original premises at the Eliott Hotel.

Triay & Triay – “Rolls Royce” Participation Triay & Triay was invited to participate in and sponsor the prestigious 2014 Rolls-Royce Enthusiast’s Club yearbook. This publication explores 110 years of the history and legacy of the iconic automobile brand.

The 448-page, high-quality Yearbook is published by St. James’s House and features articles written by Rolls-Royce experts and enthusiasts.

The book is distributed to 10,000 RREC members worldwide as a privately produced gift.

Another 12,000 copies are distributed as gifts to Rolls-Royce and Bentley dealerships internationally. The book contains an article on Triay

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on the Rock in November 1976. Approximately two months later, David’s partner returned to the UK and he found himself on his own introducing innovative equipment into the marketplace.

In the 37 years since, the company has flourished. To this day, Image Graphics has a close working relationship with Xerox as their sole distributor in Gibraltar. The company distributes office equipment such as multifunctional printers and provides bureau services — printing, photocopying, binding, shredding

and design work — to professionals as well as the public and private sectors.

David felt that the reason for the company’s success in Gibraltar was owed to its unparalleled Customer Support provided by outstanding staff, all excelling in their respective roles.

David sadly passed away six months ago, however his daughter Katherine has joined the company as Managing Director to work alongside David’s wife and Co-Director, Janet. Katherine speaks of a bright future for the company; “In 2014 and beyond, Image Graphics will remain the leading business printing provider in Gibraltar whilst extending bureau service offerings”. n

& Triay entitled the Rock Stars.

Sponsors and 450 Rolls-Royce Enthusiast’s Club (RREC) members celebrated the Yearbook’s launch with champagne and canapés at the Royal Automobile Club — one of London’s oldest and finest private members’ clubs on 8 November 2013.

Richard Freed, a director at St. James’s House said: “ The RREC yearbook is the envy of other car clubs and the lunch event in London also stands out every year.”

RREC members are a select and hard-to-reach group of discerning consumers who appreciate quality in every aspect of life: values shared by Triay & Triay and its clients. Senior Partner Melo Triay commented: “We were delighted to have

been invited to participate in such an exclusive publication in recognition of our own standing as a leading private client firm. We wish the RREC many more years of success.” n

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finance

Gibraltar International Bank appoints CEO & COO Lawrence Podesta and Derek Sene have been appointed as the Gibraltar International Bank’s (GIB) first Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer respectively. The appointments will formally begin on 2nd May 2014.

Mr Podesta joins GIB from his current position as COO and Deputy CEO at Swiss private bank Lombard Odier Gibraltar where he has worked since 1996. He has occupied a number of senior positions within the Bank including that of Financial Controller for the London office of LODH between 2009 and 2011. Mr Podesta started his banking career as a Client Relationship Clerk with Barclays in 1976 and left the Bank in 1995 as its Head of Retail Lending. Mr Podesta has served on the Board of the Gibraltar Investor Compensation Scheme and the Deposit Guarantee Scheme and has also served on the Committee of the Gibraltar Bankers Association. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments.

Mr Sene joins GIB from his current position as Head of Personal & Premier Banking at Barclays in Gibraltar where he has worked

since 1974. Mr Sene has worked across the entire spectrum of the bank and held positions of increasing responsibility including from Head of Customer Services (1983 – 1990), to Operations Manager (1990 – 1999) to Head of Finance and Administration (1999 – 2001), to Head of Front Office (2007 – 2009), to the position he currently holds as Head of Personal and Premier Banking (since 2010).

Mr Sene started his working life at Barclays as a junior clerk and understands every aspect of the banks operation. He has also served on the Committee of the

Gibraltar Bankers Association.

Both appointments have been communicated to and accepted by the Financial Services Commission.

Commenting on the appointments Mr Isola said “I am absolutely delighted that we have been able to land Lawrence and Derek in these crucial senior positions within GIB. They are both Lawrence outstanding talents in the banking Podesta world with almost 80 years of experience in banking between them.

I am confident in their ability to to working with them to make this drive this important and exciting a reality.” project forward, and look forward The appointments are the first step in delivering “a modern innovative institution designed to meet the needs of our community, licensed and regulated by the Financial Services Commission and independently managed by banking professionals” as the Chief Minister said in announcing the Bank on 16th December 2013. n

The appointments are the first step in delivering “a modern innovative institution designed to meet the needs of our community”

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Elio socialising at a functioin (with Mrs & Mrs Feetham)

ELIO CRUZ

Playing with Words Teacher and wordsmith Elio Cruz has written numerous Llanito plays which have been performed at our annual Drama Festival (this year 17th - 22nd March), and last year received the Mayor’s Gold Medal Award. He tells his story to Mike Brufal.

Elio’s story actually begins in New York. return at once, which he did, and then family Elio’s parents, Liana and Elio, married in Gi- pressure persuaded him to stay in Gibraltar. braltar in 1929 and went to start a new life in They moved into the maternal grandmother’s New York City where Gibraltarians and family members lived.

In 1931 when Liana became pregnant his father decided she should return to Gibraltar so her mother could be present at the birth and for the infant to be born a Gibraltarian. After a few months on the Rock the plan was that mother and child would return to New York.

When Elio was nine months old he contracted pneumonia and Dr Giraldi saved his life. In the meantime a telegram was sent to Elio senior to

A seed was sown in Elio’s mind which many years later became the subject of one of his plays

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flat and a seed was sown in Elio’s mind which many years later became the subject of one of his plays.

The family lived in Wilson’s Ramp off Prince Edward’s Road and he went to Our Lady of Lourdes school run by the Christian Brothers.

He remembers, on his daily walk to school, meeting a herd of goats being taken down to the town — an encounter that left him with a lifelong affection for goats. He was allowed freedom to wander where he liked as in those days there was little crime.

War was declared in 1939 and the family were taken to Casablanca and then by coach

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people profile to Mazagan. Then came the order to return to Gibraltar on an indescribably filthy cargo ship whose previous passengers had been sea sick French troops. After a short stay on the Rock he boarded SS Swinburne to begin the 16 day voyage to England.

Fate had intervened. His paternal motherin-law was ill and so travelled on the hospital ship with one carer — she chose her daughterin-law, Elio’s mother. Bureaucracy meant Elio was not allowed to travel on this ship and so his father, who was due to remain behind, was dramatically told to pack as he would accompany his son to England. He was told arrangements would be made for his return but they never materialised. His father was unused to looking after a boy but washed him with some severity, unlike his mother’s delicate touch, and allowed him to do what he wanted during the day.

All those boarding had to take a mattress each and slept in the hold. Elio enjoyed the long trip, totally oblivious to the dangers. Bread ran out after two days and its substitute was daily ship’s biscuits which were as hard as concrete.

Before discharging the passengers at Swansea the ship called in at Milford Haven to collect bread and other essential supplies.

The Gibraltarians eventually arrived in London and were sent to their billets. His mother had been sent to the National Hotel in Bloomsbury whilst he and his father stayed at Marlborough Court in Earls Court. They took a taxi to the National and the family reunited.

After some days all the family members were permitted to stay together at the National. His father became a member of some of the committees looking after the Gibraltarians. There

Elio with Carmen Lima

was a dispute with the hotel management and his father was declared persona non grata. This led to the family moving out of evacuee status and taking a flat in Marchmount Street. His father was employed by a juice making factory on the north side of Oxford Street which shortly had to make shoe polish instead as part of the war effort.

Elio has fond memories of riding double decker buses sitting in the front upstairs and seeing all the wonderful sights of London.

When the Blitz started they had to go to Russell Square underground and then be moved to Holborn because it was thought a direct hit on the Russell Square station might mean the weapon would fall down the longest shaft on the network and inflict considerable injury to

His father started a business bringing magazines into the camp. Elio was employed as a delivery boy on Saturday which meant, as the magazines arrived on a Thursday, he had 30 hours to read them all those taking shelter.

Education was at the Macklin Street Junior School and then the William Ellis School. He had to endure mild ribbing because of his Gibraltar accent but never bullying. He was introduced to reading through a teacher’s love of the Richmal Compton Just William books. As an avid reader he was delighted that the local library allowed him to take out four books at a time.

The family was moved to Ballymena in Northern Ireland where his father quickly found employment and started a business bringing magazines into the camp. Elio was employed as a delivery boy on the Saturday morning which meant as the magazines arrived on a Thursday he had 30 hours to read them all.

The family returned to Gibraltar in Novem-

ber 1945 on the S.S. Celecia and he joined the Grammar School. He wanted to study Geography and Art at A level but Brother Foley did not have teachers able to cover these subjects and so he left at the age of 16 determined to be a teacher. He was a student teacher for a year and signed the contract which would enable him to attend St Mary’s College, Twickenham and qualify as a teacher. At that time the Gibraltar Government would only send one Gibraltarian a year to the College and as Joe Romero was ahead of him this meant another year as a student teacher.

Elio’s National Service in the Gibraltar Defence Force was deferred until 1954 — fortuitous as it was the year of the Queen’s visit.

Gunner Cruz became a member of the Guard of Honour at North Front. As he was so thin no uniform would fit so Major Norton instructed him to go to Brown the Tailor for the uniform to be tailored.

Having had to fend for himself at St Mary’s College he found life in the military no burden whatsoever. During the first 10 days of Army life the conscripts were not allowed out of camp, resulting in many of the soldiers’ mothers coming to the barracks to pass Gibraltarian delicacies in. Elio told his mother on no account was she to come up with or without food.

Upon his discharge he went to St Joseph’s School in Scud Hill as a qualified teacher. Elio was there for 12 months followed by another year at Plata Villa, the secondary modern, and then to Our Lady of Lourdes School for several years. As an old boy of this school he was delighted that nothing much had changed during the intervening time. He taught all subjects and started taking pupils to the museum, the power

Elio and Albert Poggio

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station and other places of general interest.

This is when he started to write plays. His first work was Miracle in a Patio written for a drama festival. Primarily Elio assists in every way possible other than acting but he has taken small parts in plays and remembers taking part in Antigone in the Calpe Institute under the direction of Captain Dietz from the Army Education Corps. He remembers Christine Chiappe and Isaac Benyunes as fellow thespians.

Together with Luis Azzopardi and Cecil Gomez he is a founder member of Group 56.

Contrary to myth Elio has only written plays, short stories, and film reviews for The Gibraltar Chronicle, and some songs.

After six years teaching on the Rock he decided he preferred to live and work in London and so left for the capital, went to the local educational office in Marylebone High Street and first became a supply teacher and then a permanent teacher at the Gospel Oak School.

This school had been built after the war and Elio thought that his teaching dream had come true; the buildings and layout were perfection.

A friend tipped him off that a brand new Catholic school, having appointed its head and deputy head master, was recruiting. Elio applied and received a call from the parish priest inviting him for an interview. The priest told him that having checked on his references the job was his although he would have to

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attend an interview panel the next week as a formality. Such was the power of the parish priest in those years.

It was St Joseph’s primary school and he taught all subjects. He was so happy at this school he remained until retirement 29 years later. His male pupils aspired to gain admission to the London Oratory or the Cardinal Vaughan School whilst girls went to leading Catholic state schools.

He wrote plays and sent them to Cecil Gomez who would select one to produce and direct for the Gibraltar drama festival. With his characteristic modesty, he says that Cecil is known to have rejected some of his works.

Most of his plays are written in Llanito which makes them difficult to be produced in the UK. But he has written in English and together with

Elio has a topsy turvey way of writing as he finds the title first, then writes the play — similar to a teacher setting pupils an essay all with the same title

his pupils has constructed pantomimes to be performed at the school.

Elio has a topsy turvey way of writing as he finds the title first, then writes the play — similar to a teacher setting pupils an essay all with the same title.

Elio has written many plays including Miracle in a Patio, The Message, The Onlookers, A Handful of Thursdays, The New Member, Blanco’s Bastion and Does the Judas Tree still Flower in the Alameda. His most famous work is La Lola se va pa Londres, a comedy in two acts, written in 1964 when the first act was sent to Cecil Gomez to see whether it was suitable for the next Drama Festival. Nothing was heard for several months until he was asked to send the second act. He hurried to his desk as it had not been written and he had almost forgotten about the play.

Its theme is Lola’s visits to London to keep an eye on her daughter’s first pregnancy and her subsequent visits to see her grandson to the neglect of her family back home.

What is amazing is that Elio has never seen one of his plays performed, as his time on the Rock was restrained by school holidays. He did come out for the premier of La Lola but Aida Barea, the leading lady, fell ill and so the performances were delayed. He remembers that Gibraltar Television broadcast the first few minutes live which caused quite a controversy.

However Manolo Mascarenhas wrote a wonderful review which has never been bettered.

In 1968 another play, Cuando Vaje La Lola, was written about Lola’s further adventures and he determined this was Lola’s swansong. Due to the actress playing Lola being pregnant he had to rewrite the first act so that Lola would not be on stage but her voice would be heard through the baby alarm. Lola was able to appear in the second act.

His next play in 1969 was Connie Con Cama Camera en el Comedor, two acts, directed by Humbert Hernandez, performed in the John Mackintosh Hall, and another success. In the second act the saga of the division of the bedroom in the mother-in-law’s flat to accommodate the daughters and their husbands was brought to a conclusion when Connie went out and brought back a four poster bed to just fit into the allocated space. This brought the house down. His last play in the Alameda to be performed by Group 56 was Librada al Al Aire Libre en la Alameda.

He remembers with considerable affection the acting prowess of Marie Davies.

Elio has suffered from ill health for many years and now can only walk with two sticks making it impossible for him to holiday on the Rock. During his years of contented retirement he has enjoyed gardening, going to the theatre, museums, the cinema and art galleries.

As a song wordsmith his most remembered and acclaimed song was La Virgencita de Europa with the music written by Luis Diaz. His singing prowess is best remembered by being a founder member of Los Trovadores.

Last year Elio was delighted to receive a totally unexpected warm letter from Tony Lima, Gibraltar’s Mayor, offering him the non political Mayor’s Gold Medal award. As he could not fly to Gibraltar the Mayor arranged for the presentation to take place after the Thanksgiving Mass said by the Bishop of Gibraltar in the church of Our Lady of Dolours — a memorable day in Elio’s life. n

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Images by Yvonne...

Yvonne Smiddy, Digital Artist, is launching a new service in March 2014 — “Try before you buy”.

Yvonne is offering local companies the opportunity to try some images on their office walls for 60 days and either pay for them or give them back. Try before you buy!

Service includes help in choosing the right images; choosing the correct size / colour of frames; hanging the frames at your office Prices start at £45 for a 30cm x 40cm print to £90 for a 70cm x 100cm.

Some of Yvonne’s work is on show at Café Solo in Casemates Square showcasing a selection of digital artwork covering local scenes, portraits and international subjects. In addition, more of Yvonne’s work is also currently on display at College Clinic, Regal House.

Yvonne says “My love of Digital Art evolved from my interest in taking and producing pure still photographs for a number of years. I started experimenting, looking at how my images could be manipulated to, ironically in some ways, make them look less like a photograph but something more unique, with more texture or abstract colours, and different perspectives.

My artistic technique, in essence, is digitally enhanced photography with clean lines, simplicity and texture.” n For more information contact Yvonne: email info@yvonnesmiddy.com Tel: 56001372

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he problem with exploiting tidal power has, rather, been finding places where it can be done efficiently: bays, estuaries or straits with a suitable tidal reach and a topography that permits a system to be constructed. Only then, with established designs, can turbines be installed through which the tide can ebb and flow.

That would change, though, if turbines could simply be attached to the sea floor. And several firms

Since a turbine is not much use if its blades stick above the surface, they need to be located in reasonably deep water

words | John Clifford, Director at Cocoon Renewable Energy Consultants Ltd, and Elaine Prescott

The ebb & flow of tidal power generation One problem with renewable energy is that neither the wind nor the sun is reliable.

That cannot, however, be said of the tides.

The Newtonian clockwork of sun and moon can always be relied on.

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are trying to make it so. Some, such as Andritz Hydro Hammerfest, in Norway, and Marine Current Turbines from Bristol, in Britain, take the relatively simple approach of sticking what are little more than strengthened wind turbines onto the seabed.

In the case of such turbines, though, bigger is better. And, since a turbine is not much use if its blades stick above the surface, they need to be located in reasonably deep water. This is a shame, because a lot of otherwise-suitable sites are too shallow.

Not all wind turbines work this way, though. Some smaller ones are skeletal cylindrical structures whose axis of rotation are at right-angles to the direction of the wind, rather than aligned with it. And that, with the important modification that this axis is horizontal rather than vertical, is the basis for several novel designs for tidal-power generators which can operate in shallow water too.

Engineers at Ocean Renewable Power Company, in Portland, Maine, and Kepler Energy, in London, both use this approach.

And Ocean Renewable is starting to commercialise it. In September 2012 its TidGen generator was deployed in the Gulf of Maine. It thus became the first plant to deliver offshore-generated power of any kind (wind, wave or tidal) to an

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American electricity grid.

Kepler is a little behind, but is hoping to try out a full-scale version of its Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine in the Bristol Channel soon. Its engineers’ calculations suggest this device will generate 50% more power from a given tidal stream that a conventional turbine can manage.

Nor are such submarine waterwheels the only new approach.

Engineers at Pulse Tidal, in Sheffield, Britain, have decided to use hydrofoils rather than turbines. A

Marine conditions around Gibraltar

Examining the table below, it can be seen that Gibraltar encompasses a tidal velocity range of 0.5–1.2 m/s and a marine depth range of 0-700 m. Although this criterion is fundamental to the selection of suitable technology, it must also be considered due to limited availability of territorial waters that any suggested systems are as space efficient and un-interfering with local regimes as possible.

Tidal Velocity Range Maximum Tidal Prediction for 2012 Minimum Tidal Prediction for 2012 Mode number for2012 Tidal Prediction 2012 Tidal Range Prediction Marine Profile

hydrofoil is, in essence, an underwater wing. As water flows past it, the current generates lift. Pulse Tidal’s hydrofoils are mounted in such a way that this lift causes the ’foil to nod up and down. Since it is attached to a generator, that nodding generates electricity.

Even with innovations like these, tidal power has a long way to go before it becomes an important source of electricity. The wet, salty environment of the ocean is a hostile (and expensive) place for mechanical engineering to work.

But if it can be made to do so, the lure of a reliable, free fuel source may mean the seabed eventually becomes littered with tiny power stations.

0.5 m/s - 1.2 m/s 1.1 m -0.08 m 0.85 m 1.18 m 0-700 m

Gibraltar Tidal Environment

Evaluating a number of tidal technologies, it can be determined that the majority of them such as Marine Current Turbines and the Gorlov Helical Turbine are ineligible for local implementation as they exhibit deficiencies in meeting local energy demands or have physical requirements which are unsuited to the tidal conditions here.

Despite this, however, continuous research shows that there is an opportunity to be found in the recently developed Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine (THAWT). (Pictured below). n

The wet, salty environment of the ocean is a hostile (and expensive) place for mechanical engineering to work

THAWT produced by Kepler Energy

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Gibraltar is on the verge of a building boom again. Just look at the number of planning applications that have been submitted in the last 12 months. And then consider the schemes being discussed which are on the brink of submission. Great news to keep the economy and government revenue flowing. However, just think of the number of additional cars being added to Gibraltar’s road system.

With every property built, residential or commercial, it is a normal requirement in Gibraltar for additional parking spaces to be provided to accommodate the cars of the new property occupants.

Sounds obvious to build more parking spaces for each new apartment and new office built.

Indeed, build new public parking facilities in as many places as possible. That’s conventional wisdom.

But say there are 3,000 new residential units built in the next five years with 4,500 parking

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spaces created as a result. Say, there is an 80% occupancy of these parking spaces by the new apartment occupants. That’s 3,600 new cars to be absorbed into our road system. Then add

the parking spaces being built to accommodate the general local rule of one parking space for every 180m2 of office space. Garage owners will be smiling from ear to ear at the thought of supplying,

Say there are 3,000 new residential units built in the next five years with 4,500 parking spaces created as a result.

With 80% occupancy that’s 3,600 new cars to be absorbed into our road system

maintaining and refuelling these new cars. Investing in a garage could be wise.

Park those thoughts for a moment (pun intended!) and consider climate change. On the day of writing this article, with much of England under water, Ed Miliband has written in the Observer that Britain is sleepwalking towards disaster because of a failure to recognise that climate change is causing the extreme weather that has blighted the country for more than a month.

Furthermore, he states that climate change is a threat to national

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property security.

And then, reading social media, John Cortes, Gibraltar’s Environment Minister, has just in the last hour weeted “Climate Change is an issue of INTERNATIONAL security. Remember these words” to which a fellow follower suggested bluntly “…then ban cars in Gibraltar”. My Sunday morning reading inspired this article, because currently, Gibraltar is (possibly inadvertently) encouraging cars, with no limitation in sight which is environmentally damaging and, with no expansion possible of the road system, will increase average journey times.

Cars, on average, are immobile 95% of the time. On average they each take up 15m2 of valuable land space. Space which could have alternative use whether a public amenity, open space or other forms of accommodation.

Perhaps the argument is to reduce the number of parking facilities not increase them. Since cars need parking spaces to park in, less parking spaces leads to fewer drivers on the road, which leads to a drop in auto-emissions.

Is it really that simple? Possibly.

Every car journey within Gibraltar requires two parking spaces: one at the start of the journey and one at the destination. If they do not exist, the car journey would not or could not happen saving emissions and congestion.

It is not a new problem or one confined to Gibraltar. Back in 705 B.C., Assyrian King Sennacherib posted signs on his highway to ensure it was cleared of parked chariots. The signs read: “Royal Road — let no man decrease it.”

Whereas today you would just get a ticket, then, an improperly parked chariot could result in death by beheading. Later, the Romans actually implemented

parking laws. Julius Caesar instituted rules preventing chariots from entering busy commercial zones during peak hours to limit congestion.

What needs to be done to get more people out of their cars, or, not into a car in the first place?

Strategies I have identified in other European cities include:

Redistribution of parking fees In Barcelona, 100% of parking revenue in certain areas goes to operate the public-bike system.

Local governments in London use their parking fees to provide free transit passes for seniors and the disabled. Perhaps it is

If Main Street can be pedestrianised, so can other areas. And roads could be cleared of parking spaces along the pavements which makes it at best unpleasant and at worst dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists Set parking limits Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich, and Strasbourg have all limited the amount of parking spaces allowed in new developments that are walking distance from public transportation and or city centre amenities. In Gibraltar, instead of having to build a minimum number of expensive car parking spaces (which usually cost more than the car being housed in that space), the developer could for example, contribute financially to the public transport system.

Charge more for parking Research suggests that optimal use of public parking facilities is when a car park is 85% full. This means there is always a space available which prevents the need for cars to cruise round looking for a space. Flexible parking tariffs, which may also mean higher parking tariffs at peak periods,

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might be able to achieve this.

time to reduce the amount of free parking around town and use the proceeds to fund better public transport.

Discourage Car Ownership The cost of car ownership in Gibraltar is comparatively low to other European countries. No annual tax and low fuel costs. No higher tariffs for cars with high carbon emissions. As unpalatable and politically difficult as it seems, taxing car ownership may

be the easiest way to solve the problem. London’s congestion charge is one such example.

Take back public space If Main Street can be pedestrianised, so can other areas.

And roads could be cleared of parking spaces along the pavements which makes it at best unpleasant and at worst dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists.

Hamburg, Germany and Zurich implemented a kind of “cap and trade” of parking spaces, where for every off-street parking space built, an on-street parking space was converted into park or community space. Many cities have also abolished minimum parking standards for new developments, instead enforcing a maximum allowance.

And from the green perspective, whether people are annoyed with parking due to lack of available spaces or due to high motoring prices doesn’t matter. As long as they are frustrated enough not to drive, the environment will be better off.

A hugely difficult topic as most of us love the freedom of car ownership. But with thousands more cars coming to our road system soon, tough choices may have to be made.

It all reminds me of that age old joke: What do you do if you see a spaceman? Park in it. n

Mike Nicholls is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a member of the Gibraltar Society of Accountants, a member of the Gibraltar Funds and Investment Association and a board member of the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce. Mike operates the Chesterton estate agency in Gibraltar and runs a real estate investment solutions consultancy.

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Meme’s Top 5 Tips

words | Meme Fairbank, Denville Designs

Want your home looking sumptious for Spring? Follow these five interior design top tips and get your home looking tip top for the new season.

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Don’t Skip on Quality It’s easily done, if you are in a rush and can’t wait for a bespoke or made-to-order item to be manufactured it’s easy to buy off the shelf cheaper options.

Especially now that we are in a recession most factories don’t like to hold stock so many items are to order and in Gibraltar we are all so aware of this, due to small premises that have only limited collections and styles on the floor.

I understand not everyone has a big bank account to splash out on high end products, so mixing a few special pieces like a wow lamp, mirror or console table will make all the difference.

Of course, good quality will last you a lot longer, and a home is an investment at the end of the day!

Artwork Artwork doesn’t have to be expensive, you can frame your favourite photos, and make different collages with them to create a feature on a wall. Use different frames for a more fun feel or all matching frames for a modern look in black and white.

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Accessorise your room I would say most homes need to clear a lot of clutter first, then look at the area carefully to pick out some colours you would like to see most in the room. This is linked with the above Artwork advice — for example if you have a painting with blues in it, that could be a good colour to bring out in your room with cushions, throws, vases etc.

I like using plants but they must be looked after, as there is nothing worse than a brown dying plant in a corner. I am a fan of orchids they just seem to fit with every style and if you are not green fingered you can buy some amazing fake plants and flower arrangements some now even have solid fake water

in the glass vase so they look amazingly real.

Candles are another simple stylish accessory, and they make the room smell good. Now they come in some interesting pots so make more of a feature to the room as well as filling spaces, and of course give a warm feel to a room in the evenings.

Make Sure Your Home Flows More and more homes now are open plan and it’s so important that the room flows well. Using complementary colours helps achieve this and keeping the style similar also helps — if you have a modern kitchen and then furnished the rest of the room with French chateau furniture your room would look a little odd.

Remember when planning your home to make sure you take every room into consideration and work round the main areas like the kitchen and bathrooms that cost the most to change. n Denville Designs can offer you the above services however small or large your project may be. Email meme@denvilledesigns.com

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Or get the pictures printed as a canvas — this also creates a more contemporary look for your home. Personal photos also bring personality to a home.

When people mention artwork you might think expensive, but you can get great value canvases and framed prints at the moment.

As long as it matches your room and style you will be fine.

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Affordable Homes For Sale The Government of Gibraltar launched two new affordable, co-ownership housing schemes in February which, together, will offer around 900 apartments for sale.

Mons Calpe Mews will be located at the old Coach Park whilst Beach View Terraces will be at the old Aerial Farm.

Prices (on 50/50 terms) will range from £27,600 for a 2RKB (one-bedroom) flat at Beach View Terraces to around £99,000 for the biggest four bedroom flats.

These new homes, which will incorporate several environmentally-friendly features, are primarily intended for those people already on the Government’s Housing Waiting List.

“Those who were on the Housing Waiting List on 9th December 2011, the day that the new Government was elected, will get first priority over others, based on their position on the list and the type of flat for which they are eligible,” explained the Minister responsible for Housing Paul Balban. “It is clear that at these

prices there will be people on the waiting list who will be prepared to buy their own homes and who will in turn release Government rental housing for allocation to somebody else.”

The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, who is responsible for land matters added: “The provision of more housing is one of the Government’s flagship manifesto commitments. We have moved quickly as a Government

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in order to identify plots of land on which to construct houses for our people. As the Government of Gibraltar is the developer of these homes, no premium has been charged for the land in order to keep prices down.”

The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo said: “The Government is extremely pleased to be so advanced in the development of these homes and to be giving people a real oppor-

The Government is extremely pleased to be so advanced in the development of these homes and to be giving people a real opportunity to purchase at an affordable price

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tunity to purchase at an affordable price. It is another example of a GSLP/Liberals’ flagship commitment being turned into a reality. The Government would like to thank everyone who has been involved with making the launch of these housing schemes possible.

To provide the public with more information, a showroom which has been rented for a few months is now open at 190192 Main Street opposite the Cathedral. On display in the showroom are models of the schemes, 3D videos and plans.

The showroom will be manned

by Gibraltar Residential Properties Limited who will be handling the application process. n The closing date for applications to purchase properties at Mons Calpe Mews and Beach View Terraces will be 14th March 2014.

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valenFor the past 11 years, Pili Rodriguez, the Manager and a founder of the local Citizens Advice Bureau, has offered impartial advice to people in Gibraltar. A Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) is an independent charity which gives free, confidential information and advice to help people with their money, legal, consumer and other problems. The twin aims of the Citizens Advice service are to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and principles that affect people’s lives.

“All we do really is work for the community,” Pili explains. “If we have a specific issue that is causing anxiety or distress to a lot of people, then we have a duty to inform the Board who notifies the government about the problem. One case we’ve had over the years was divorced women’s pension rights.”

Pili became a Founder of the Gibraltar Citizens Advice Bureau quite by accident. “I had set up a support group in Gibraltar 20 years ago, called ‘With Dignity’. It was running very well, and then I did a counseling diploma and thought, there is no place in Gibraltar where people can go and talk about their problems.

So, I wrote to the government and they said why don’t you set up a CAB, since they had already identified the need for it. So I went to London and Jersey and I saw how they work there and when I came back I was recruited as a Manager.”

At the moment the Gibraltar CAB team is expanding its practices internationally. Pili has been invited to go to an international conference in Dublin, where she will present the great work they do in Gibraltar to other countries, such as Turkey, who would like to follow our example.

Locally the team is trying to set up a group of mediators, since mediation is not generally offered in Gibraltar yet. They attended training on mediation just before Christmas and as a result Pili strongly believes it should be presented as an alternative to going to court, especially in family affairs. “People should not be just offered litigation, but mediation as an alternative,” Pili points out.

The Gibraltar CAB has also set up an anti-bullying alliance, and they are helping the fight against discrimination on a daily basis.

“I always say, don’t be a victim, help is always available,” she emphasises. “We are a first point of contact in the community, so we work closely with police, financial experts and lawyers.” The team doesn’t solve problems but helps people to solve their problems, empowering them to take control in their lives.

Gibraltar CAB: Here to Help Everybody finds themselves in a situation where they need some advice at some time. Perhaps as a student living abroad for the first time or an elderly person trying to book flights on-line. Well the good news is there are experts in Gibraltar who can help you with your dilemma. The Gibraltar Magazine spoke to the professionals working at the Citizens Advice Bureau to find out more about the work they do.

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community “I want people to know that help is available, they are not alone, because we are here for them,” Pili says. “We are here and now, and we should move forward and not look back. Maybe the doors are closed but there is a window opened. This is what I try to instill in people.”

People are the CAB’s business and the team promotes equality and diversity — not as an optional addition, but as the core of their business.

They emphasis that people should feel free to contact them for a range of problems, including issues of an equality, discrimination, financial and legal nature.

As counselors the individuals in the CAB team help people in difficult situations to find a path from point A to point B. Some people seeking help, for example, can’t pay their household bills, some are getting divorced, some are being evicted and some recently widowed. But they all have in common the need for someone to talk to and help them in the right direction.

The biggest challenge Pili says she has faced in her job was at the beginning when she was starting the charity: “People were quite territorial and were asking questions, like why should I give you this information? We had to explain that we are not a threat to anybody. Local people didn’t know what the CAB was, in the UK they have had this service for almost 80 years, but here it was something new,” she explains.

“It is very rewarding to have become the first point of contact in Gibraltar from nothing, and to be accepted by the people. It has also been extremely gratifying that other countries in the Western Balkans are trying to emulate us now,” reveals Pili with a smile. Gaining the community’s respect was particularly difficult, because in Gibraltar everybody knows everybody, so the team has to adhere to ethical principles and strict confidentiality to be successful.

In the future Gibraltar CAB would like to have more interview rooms, since more and more people are using the services. That is also the reason they are looking for new volunteers

from different sectors.

“We have only introduced volunteers for the last two years — confidentiality is our prime goal and they all come from strictly ethical backgrounds,” Pili assures.

There is much still to do it seems, as Pili states that Gibraltar also needs a Financial Services Ombudsman and halfway housing for homeless men. The CAB would also like to introduce advisors and consultants at the health centres, so when people are waiting for their medical exams they have somebody to talk to in the waiting room.

At the moment the CAB is receiving a lot of requests from people who had difficulty transferring their bank accounts from Barclays to NatWest. It has been especially hard for older people who had trouble understanding the procedures, so CAB issued additional information for pensioners and is offering help to all who have problems understanding banks’ guidelines.

The Gibraltar CAB would like to do more work with young people in the future. “I would like to involve them more,” Pili agrees.

“We had a great campaign in December, it was called ‘Adopt a Grandparent’ and we connected kids with the elderly. Children made

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It is very rewarding to have become the first point of contact in Gibraltar from nothing, and to be accepted by the people. It has also been extremely gratifying that other countries are trying to emulate us now

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little baskets that we gave to the elderly. The response was overwhelming!” she says a smile.

Pili says she loves her job, since it is her ‘baby’ and we are sure that anyone seeking advice at the CAB will see and feel that devotion from the moment they walk through the door. n

Team Talk Joanna McGrail, Senior Advice Supervisor, is currently working with volunteers.

“We have loads of volunteers who are happy to help with our work and we also help other charities with getting in touch with the right volunteers. There are some charities that have specific needs. It is just a question of mixing and matching. It is something that is much needed in Gibraltar!” says Joanna. “We are moving up, we are not as closed as we were before. You have to go out to the world if we want to share it! We are moving forward.”

Ivan Cruz is in charge of The Money Advice Clinic where he tries to manage debts with the help of the financial volunteers.

“Some people need counseling because they have lost somebody, so they find themselves with only one wage on top of the stress of losing somebody. We want to extend services to financial capability which is a step ahead and prevents people going into debt.

“I also work as Equality and Discrimination Officer. Believe it or not, 80% of all discrimination cases is maternity related.

It is very important that we listen to both sides. We have to give people time to explain and listen to them. We all take the time to listen to people who are seeking our help, because above all, equality is fundamental,” he concludes. n

Gibraltar Citizens Advice Bureau staff from left to right: Ivan Cruz (Senior Equality & Discrimination Officer), Pili Rodriguez (Bureau Manager), Sharlene Bossano (Receptionist/Administrative), Michael Recagno (Generalist Advisor), Joanna McGrail (Senior Advisor), Kane Sivers (Administrative).

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James Neish, Head of Radio

words | Richard Cartwright

Radio Gibraltar... Moving On For many years Radio Gibraltar has remained for some, stuck in the past, firm in the belief a revamp was due and so changes have slowly been creeping in. Of course, others may say, ‘no, don’t like it anymore’, however the changes have created a ‘more relevant sound’ designed to be in harmony with the times in which we live.

My view is probably somewhere in the middle with a careful mix of listeners’ preferences. In my experience, in many instances in this business, one view isn’t right and the other isn’t wrong! Radio Gibraltar has always had to deal with the fact we only have one station serving the whole population — BFBS has two options and BBC has multiple choices in contrast. ` Do we play Frankie Vaughan, the Platters, Cliff and the Beatles or, forget that and bring on Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Rhianna, The Script and N-Dubz only? There’s the dilemma!

There are more issues of concern of course but the music played is probably one of the most important and the one which needs to be right... as much as possible.

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Radio a couple of years ago and he tells me he has to constantly be aware of people’s tastes in order to try and get it right at least most of the time.

“Not only that, it’s also trying your best to give the audience what they want and reflect what the community is all about, on Radio Gibraltar. On the music side, we need to play the hits of the moment that we consider right for our audience plus a selection of ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and some ’60s

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as well.

“Local bands and singer songwriters are certainly not left out either, This Side Up, Jetstream, Taxi, Metro Motel and Kirsty Almeida are examples of that. Our commitment to local talent is supported further by the return shortly of Made in Gibraltar specials — programmes entirely dedicated to musicians and singer/songwriters on the Rock.

“We include a sprinkling of Spanish hit songs in our daily

Our commitment to local talent is supported by the return shortly of Made in Gibraltar specials — programmes dedicated to musicians and singer/songwriters on the Rock

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playlist also.”

James is also very mindful of personal contact with the audiences by laying on as many OBs (Outside Broadcasts) and Road Shows as possible. He says, “Attending important events such as the Music Festival where international and local bands appeared on the festival’s second stage, The Radio Gibraltar Stage; being in town and on air at the earlier time of 7am on National Day; at the Small Business Saturday Extravaganza, Walk for Life and a number of other events, is what our station needs to do to reflect the richness of Gibraltar and its life. We always believe in going that extra mile.

“I have this vision of having more involvement with the people, and music forms an integral part of that,” he adds.

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community All of this helps put across that important message of Loving Life on the Rock — the latest station jingle — which is what James is so keen to project to listeners and make the station represent what it is meant to be... Radio Gibraltar, Gibraltar’s radio!

Innovations have recently been introduced. There’s a fresh new Jingle package playing out. Studio equipment and music computers have been upgraded with frontier camera images monitored in the studios and there are new programmes and some changes in the station’s sound.

“Yes, the Spanish programme is no longer where it used to be, between 2 and 4pm on all frequencies, it has moved to Radio Gibraltar Plus on 100.5FM and 1458 on the medium wave only now, but still airing between 2 and 4. The programme is a little more MOR (Middle Of the Road) than our shows in English.

“The reason for the split in programming is there are more ex-pats from many countries now living and/or working on the Rock. Now, if they’re listening to us up to 2pm there’s a very good chance they will stay with us and

not move to another station (as most did), where they would stay for the duration of their listening day and probably stay there the next morning too so listeners would be lost to rival stations.”

It’s also true more and more of our youngsters are speaking English all, or most of, the time and they too will relate to a more English sound — whilst bearing in mind Spanish is important for our older generations and others.

It is part of our identity too and we have to ensure transmitter power is sufficient and coverage of our Spanish broadcast is satisfactory to reach all those who wish to tune in. James adds, “Moving the Spanish transmission to Radio Gibraltar Plus has meant Paul Grant’s airtime commitment has been extended to four hours from 2 to 6.”

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Newcomer Claire Hernandez fills in the 6 to 7 slot Monday to Friday and there’s a new programme on Thursdays between 7 and 9 called On Request which harks back to the old days (record requests) where you can ring in or e-mail to ask for a specific song and give a reason why you’re choosing it. Michelle Rugeroni and Andy Coumbe jointly present that show with loads of banter!

In this age of super technology a reminder that Radio Gibraltar is also on-line at gbc.gi, which of course means it can be listened to from Los Angeles to Melbourne and Helsinki to Capetown. Radio programmes can also be heard on GBC Television during the day up to 7.30pm and through the night from about midnight. Parliament sessions continue, broadcast on TV and on 1458 on the Medium

I enjoy it all, especially updating and hopefully improving aspects of our Radio Gibraltar output, something which is ongoing

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Wave only. You can also tune in to Radio Gibraltar by downloading the App using your iPhone.

Radio Gibraltar ’s Manager James, certainly has been busy over many months and tends to keep that way most of the time.

His other duties include looking after the station’s on-line service and popping upstairs to read television news once a fortnight.

“Well, I enjoy it all,” he says, “especially updating and hopefully improving aspects of our Radio Gibraltar output, something which is ongoing.”

Outside of his Radio Gibraltar and other GBC obligations, James runs his production company, Stage One, which is once again producing the annual Miss Gibraltar Show which will be staged at the Queen’s Cinema in June 2014.

“Yes, recruiting of potential entrants has begun and my attention and time is already being taken up with that too... Oh, and I almost forgot, I’m committed and ridiculously enjoying co-producing and presenting Talk About Town on GBC Television fortnightly on Thursday nights, with an individual called Richard Cartwright...”

Oh! Who Dat Man? n

Radio Gibratar supporting Think Pink Day

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Gibraltar Music Festival 2014 Headline Act Announced

4 million followers on Facebook, 1.5 million on Twitter, 100 million YouTube, sold 4 million albums and a staggering 10 million singles... The Script will be headlining the Gibraltar Music Festival this year! The Festival’s biggest headline act to date, the band will perform all their hits at Gibraltar’s Victoria Stadium on Saturday 6th September 2014.

The Script went in all guns blazing in 2012 with #3 and pulled it out of the bag, striking gold within just two weeks of the album’s release

James Arthur Winner of the X-Factor in 2012 in dramatic style James Arthur, the first act to be announced for the Gibraltar Music Festival 2014, went on to release the global hit Impossible as a charity single for Together for Short Lives, a charity close to James’ heart. The single sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide and was number one for three weeks in the UK as well as many other countries.

On 4th November 2013 James released his first album reaching an impressive second spot in the album charts.

More international acts will be added to the bill in the coming weeks.

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It’s been a rags to riches glory ride, an emotional rollercoaster, an all action, all-star blockbuster for the band. Three young Dubliners took on the world, with music fashioned from their own hard lives raised up by a love of pop, rock, hip hop and soul.

So much has changed for The Script since they released their first album six years ago.

First they broke Britain, then the States, then everywhere from Asia to South Africa. Along the way, they toured with U2, Take That and Paul McCartney (who personally asked The Script to support him at a series of American stadium shows), sailed through the second album syndrome that sinks so many bands, played to a 55,000-strong crowd at an historic hometown show in Dublin, amassed almost four million followers on Facebook, 1.5 million on Twitter, wracked up 100 million YouTube views, and saw their singer star on TV talent show The Voice. (We enjoyed watching the good-looking Danny O’Donoghue as a coach on the hit show in series 1 and 2.)

The past six years have seen The Script become one of the biggest, best-loved bands in the world — if you want to stack up the stats, the trio have so far sold four million albums and a staggering ten million singles.

They went in all guns blazing in 2012 with #3 and pulled it out of the bag, striking gold within just two weeks of the album’s release and spawning a hit single in Hall of Fame, which was No.1 for two weeks running, stayed in the Top Ten for two months and went on to become the band’s biggest selling single so far.

Their latest UK Arena Tour was sold out in a week; proof that The Script don’t do anything by halves. They have an addictive blend of hip hop rhythms, flowing melodies, sparkling

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The Ministry of Culture has confirmed that, hooks and emotive, story-spinning lyrics, with Danny’s mellifluous soulful vocals riding high once again, the event will feature many local over huge, anthemic choruses. Bring on 6th musicians, with more details in the coming months.

September!

The all-day event takes place during Gibraltar’s ‘National Week’ festivities and will be 2014 Boasts Biggest family and disability friendly.

Headline Act To Date 2013’s Gibraltar Music Festival proved to be significantly bigger than 2012, with over 20 acts More Acts To Be Announced Shortly appearing across four stages at the Victoria StaWhen we went to press, Word of Mouth & dium. Among the favourites were Olly Murs, Emeli Sandé, Lawson, Level 42, Texas and 10cc.

Speaking to The Gibraltar Magazine, the producers, Word of Mouth and Axle Media, said “Our headline act for 2014 is our biggest act so far, and we have many more exciting names to announce in the coming weeks”.

They are already working hard with Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar to make 6th September another memorable day of live music on the Rock. “We want it to be a feelgood event that brings the whole community together — a family friendly music festival and the perfect day out,” said Word of Mouth’s Owen Smith.

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Axle Media told The Gibraltar Magazine they were working on securing the last remaining acts to perform at the Gibraltar Music Festival “We’ll be employing the same formula as we used in 2013 — a range of music to satisfy all age groups and most musical tastes. We will also be running some amazing competitions to win VIP, tickets and meet the stars”.

Tickets Tickets are available at Vijay and Music Corner on Main Street, and online from Saturday 1st March at 10am. Children aged 12 and under will again be allowed free entry, if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Tickets start at £55 for anyone aged 13 and over.

Reserved seating tickets will be available this year and are priced at £80, VIP tickets (which include many goodies) will cost £200; they’re also available online at gibraltarmusicfestival. com and at Vijay and Music Corner. Go to the website or Facebook page for more details on tickets and the event. n For the latest: gibraltarmusicfestival.com

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words | Elena Scialtiel

Are they cakes topped with fancy royal icing? Are they play-doh flakes flattened by a toddler’s thumb and splattered in collages? Are they mosaics made of drops of sea-smoothed coloured glass?

None of the above: these colour- some photographs of his favourite a first lick of thin paint, and if he ful pieces are original paintings by views from Gibraltar, Cadiz and likes the effect, he goes on decontalented Gibraltar-based Welsh Sierra Nevada. Then he applies structing the details by slapping on landscapist George L. Williams, a little heavy-handed with oils perhaps, even more with creativity.

Although the busy Gibraltar International Art Exhibition overwhelmed his small and understated entry last autumn, to the discerning eye George’s work stands out at first glance for its novel approach to figurative, hanging in balance between realism and modular abstract, with a predilection for pastel and candy hues and sharp textures with an élan for bas-relief.

George picks a pristine canvas, usually not larger than a quarter square metre, and sketches a landscape, including a fair amount of detail, inspired by charming sites he committed to memory, aided by

Paint in its purest form, as it is squirted out of the tube, is the true protagonist of George’s work

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When thick is genius

the canvas dollops of paint which he may later flatten with palette knives, brushes and occasionally thumbs.

But if the method seems simple, achieving the right effect requires a keen eye to tell apart what contours can be blurred and what must be highlighted to portray the overall personality of a cityscape, a seascape or mountain scene, without indulging in superfluous and distracting pointers, such as house windows, ship masts or even people. And without ending up with something that looks like a chewing-gum disposal board!

He used to paint with acrylics but they dry too quickly and didn’t allow him to play with the paint viscosity before it freezes in its definitive shape. Sometimes he lays it so thick it takes a couple of days to dry, which gives him time to fashion it suitably.

Paint in its purest form, as it is squirted out of the tube, is the true protagonist of George’s work, where plasticity is the answer to the relative absence of perspective and chiaroscuro, as he explains: “I see my use of it these days as giving it more life and respect, fully exposing its texture and real qualities.”

It’s a bit like an adult form of finger-painting — and way costlier too, since the materials alone are pricey. This, together with the combined weight the canvas will have to support, is the reason George keeps his works to the right of the metre’s decimal point.

Overlooking the financial aspect of art, he would like to experiment on a larger scale however, because it would allow him to salvage more detail from the underlying sketch, and add even more layers.

It’s interesting how the detailed drawing is still visible when George flips his canvases to the obverse, as if he’s playing a guessing

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game with his audience. It’s actually intriguing how he feels the need to chop his reality up into chunks, as if he is watching through a jagged kaleidoscope, but he reserves the lifeline of stepping to the other side of the looking glass where reality starts and is preserved, albeit for the wall’s eyes only.

George is no amateur at arts: he graduated in Fine Art at London Metropolitan University and subsequently worked at an art gallery in the Serpentine for three years, before pursuing a career change and accepting a job with Camden-based gaming company Betclic. When they relocated to Gibraltar three years ago, he faced the choice of returning to his Welsh hometown, Abergavenny, or following his employer.

And here he is, painting sundrenched landscapes which go down a treat with customers of the prestigious East London gallery DegreeArt which represents him.

“Two of my paintings were sold somewhere exotic in the Caribbean. They were part of my final university work, a collection of five canvases, separate but interconnected to form a ‘bigger picture’.

Of course galleries don’t disclose their customers to safeguard their own role as middle man between artists and collectors, but I was quite pleased to hear my work had travelled that far.”

George’s paintings are well travelled in more than one way, since he is now working on his impressions of touring Vietnam and Thailand. With a full-time job and slow-drying oils, continuity and concentration need to be juggled with work and social commitments. He is fortunate enough to have a home studio with plenty of ventilation for what his website describes as ‘the structural, buttery, timely drying process’ of his style that aims to create surfaces ‘being dominated in a workman-like body of heavily cemented paint’.

His early work however was

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flat and paint was not exuberant.

Furthermore, the style differs considerably from the direction his art has taken recently: he started off with charcoal sketches from busy places, like train stations or public squares, capturing a varied and intermingling humanity, preoccupied with their daily commute or long-haul flights, all rigorously faceless or facing away from the portrayer.

Some pencil sketches evolved into oil paintings, like Liverpool Street Station (2006), a maze of brown faces, red or blue clothing outlined in slick black, with the focal point cast on the grey staircase at the top right corner of the composition. These colours return in Sierra Nevada Ski Lift (2012), a series of Stratford Landscapes (2009) and Edinburgh City Castle View (2010).

His more recent works cherishes mint and moss greens, bright and saturated sky blues, powder pinks

and dramatic splashes of scarlet red, jet black and mustard brown (Cadiz, 2013).

Obsession for texture has inspired George with a new project: close-up photos of his works to highlight depth and layering, mixture of colours and brushstroke directions, forsaking the subject

matters’ relevance in favour of his reverence for the medium, enjoying a life of its own. n For information on prices and commissions, please visit www. georgelwilliams.com, follow @george_ artist on Twitter or like his Facebook page GeorgeWilliamsArt.

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Title: Dark Machine Body Painter: Pashur Photographer: Laura Dark Model: Odette Despair

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�ash�� Title: The Crowd Body Painter: Pashur Photographer: Tom Lovelund Model: Lauren-Rae Chismar

World-renowned Body Painter, Pashur, has confirmed his attendance at Gibraltar’s Second Face & Body Painting Festival, to be held in mid-April. Pashur, who has regularly painted models at the Playboy Mansion, will be holding a Lingerie Painting Workshop at the festival.

Pashur helped pave the way for the modern body paint industry with his first image, a pregnant cyborg incubating a cyborg baby fondly named MotherBoard. Since then Pashur has been instrumental in the main stream inclusion of body painting in current media.

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works of body art and inspire artists around the globe, and his influence can be seen throughout the industry. He has also taught face and body paint workshops all over the world.

Where you are from/based?

I was born in Jackson, TN, but I grew up in Nashville, TN. I had a four year stint in Memphis, TN while I attended art college there. I lived back in Nashville for about five years before I moved to Orlando where I stayed for about seven years. I moved to Charlotte, NC for about 1 year, and then I moved to the West Coast of the United States… Las Vegas. I was there for almost three years and now I reside in Los Angeles, CA. How did you first get interested in body painting?

I was doing freelance illustration work for

Title: Nature Lurks Body Painter & Photographer: Pashur Model: Cindi Khongwiset

Title: Kaleidoscope – Sea Apple Body Painter: Pashur Photographer: Thom Ledford Model: Lisa Greenberg

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Title: Burlesque Body Painter: Pashur Photographer: Rick Calvelli Model: Felicia Fatale

magazines and wanted to do something a bit more epic and theatrical, so I body painted a pregnant model as a cyborg incubating a cyborg baby in a glass casing. I called it Motherboard I was instantly hooked on body painting.

What first brought you to Gibraltar?

25 years ago when I lived in Nashville, Tennessee, my friend Georgina Rucker used to draw caricatures in Gibraltar. Back then she raved about how wonderful and beautiful it was. When Hamish Dalmedo contacted me and asked me to be a part of the First Annual Gibraltar Face and Body Painting Festival, I jumped at the chance to check out Gibraltar myself.

I was not disappointed; in fact I was not prepared for how stunning it truly is!

What made you decide to come back to Gibraltar to give a workshop at this year’s festival?

Gibraltar is a very charming and relaxing place. The entire vibe of the city is wonderful. The streets of cafes and restaurants are charming, the history is amazing, the

I really perfected body paint lingerie when I was hired to paint at the Playboy Mansion. I have since been asked back to the Playboy Mansion over a dozen times!

Title: Anubis Body Painter: Pashur Photographer: Neal Rue Model: Ebony Crystal

monkeys a rare treat, and our adventures are memories we will cherish for a lifetime.

We were shown such wonderful hospitality by organiser Hamish Dalmedo and his family, as well as the locals we met there. It is a incredible place, one we don’t hear enough about back in the States, and I look forward to many more visits in the future!

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Tell us about your specialty: Body Paint Lingerie I have body painted hundreds of lingerie designs over the past eight years. I really perfected body paint lingerie when I was hired to paint at the Playboy Mansion.

I have since been asked back to the Playboy Mansion over a dozen times! I often painted 10 girls in lingerie for each of these events, so I have created many unique styles of lingerie to ensure they are always eye catching and exciting.

Lingerie is one of the most requested body painting designs both commercially and by individuals. It can be used for a fashion show, sometimes for a romantic photo shoot gift for a lover, sometimes for an event promotion.

If sexy body painting is the goal of the client, then body painted lingerie is the way to reach it! n Gibraltar’s Second Body Painting Festival will take place from 11th - 14th April at the Victoria Sports Hall. There will be contests, workshops and demos with award winning artists and photographers.

For further information or to sign up as a model or for a workshop, contact gibraltarbodyart@hotmail.com or telephone 54015139.

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Title: Anubis Body Painter: Pashur Photographer: Neal Rue Model: Ebony Crystal

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Finalist Charlene Figueras at

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Runway Gibraltar 2014 New Designer Competition

For the second consecutive year, Runway Gibraltar is now calling for entries for the New Designer Competition for 2014.

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in the same format with entries once again being accepted from across Europe as well as Gibraltar.

Applicants are requested to send three designs, either drawn or photographed, along with a bio and their details to the Runway organisers.

The judges — made up of Brighton Fashion Week creative directors and Runway producers — will then choose their favourite five entrants and the finalists will be named on 14th March 2014.

These five finalists will then show their three looks on the

Christel Mifsud at Runway Select 2013. Photo: Jayden Fa

After the success of the competition last year as part of Gibraltar’s only fashion festival, Runway has now partnered with one of UK’s most innovative events, Brighton Fashion Week, to give the overall winner an all expense paid show at this year’s BFW in June.

Gibraltarian Christel Mifsud won last year’s coveted competition with her sportswear label Shorji which saw her fly over to Maastricht in the Netherlands for a show at the yearly fashion festival Fashionclash.

This year, the competition runs

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catwalk at Runway Gibraltar on the 3rd May at the Tercentenary Hall in to an audience made up of public and press. The judges will announce the winner on the night.

“It has always been a very important part of Runway that we nurture the future of our industry. New designers are the way forward and without events like Runway and Brighton Fashion Week, they would never get the opportunity to be seen.” Says Shideh Olafsson, one of Runway’s organisers.

Brighton Fashion Week has been a launchpad for new designers for over a decade. Each year, the event showcases a varitety of innovative labels both from the UK and internationally and puts them on a stage to an audience of media,

“It has always been a very important part of Runway that we nurture the future of our industry” celebrities, buyers and public over a number of days.

The producers of BFW will be flying into Gibraltar on Friday, 2nd May and will meet with all five finalists that evening to find our their ideas and inspirations behind their designs.

With a brand new venue this year, Runway Gibraltar 2014 is promising to be a fantastic fashion festival which will showcase three international designers, the New Designer Competition, an international band, a photography exhibition, a fashion film cinema, a styling booth and a pamper room as well as many activities and stalls from the local fashion and beauty industries. n

Shorji’s winning designs at Runway 2013. Photo: David Mansfield

Christel Mifsud at Runway Select 2013. Photo: Jayden Fa

For more information about the New Designer Competition and about Runway Gibraltar, please visit www. runwaygibraltar.com.

Designer; Shorji.

Photo: Jayden Fa — with Noelle Ann.

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60 minutes for planet Earth The Minister for the Environment, Dr John Cortes has spoken of his delight that the government will be supporting the global event Earth Hour again this year. Earth Hour is an hour dedicated to plunging the world into darkness in a bid to save energy and bring awareness of our electricity consumption. You can participate too by turning off all the lights or all unessential lights in your home or business for one hour or longer on 29th March at 8.30pm.

Earth Hour 2013 global campaign went beyond the hour and retained its record as the largest voluntary action for the environment, involving an estimated two billion people. Last year, CEO and Co-Founder Andy Ridley spoke about the movement’s significant environmental outcomes beyond the hour: “People from all walks of life, from all nations around

Some of the world’s most iconic buildings plunge into darkness — such as Buckingham Palace in London, Times Square in New York, Toronto’s CN Tower and Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers the world, are the lifeblood of the Earth Hour interconnected global community.

“They have proven time and time again that if you believe in something strongly enough, you can achieve amazing things. These stories aren’t unique; this is happening all over the world,” he said.

Earth Hour is also supported around the world by celebrities

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such as supermodel Miranda Kerr, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the International Space Station, Yoko Ono, Stephen Fry, Cate Blanchett and Coldplay.

The Scouts from the 1st/4th group and the Environmental Safety Group have been organising events and bringing awareness to this campaign since 2009, and the Gibraltar flag has been show under the list of countries participating since 2011.

Conceived in 2007, by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney, Australia, many other countries across the world have since joined.

As a result, some of the world’s most iconic buildings and natural wonders plunge into darkness — such as Buckingham Palace in London, Times Square in New York, Toronto’s CN Tower, Cape Town’s Table Mountain, Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers, the Statue of David in Florence, Niagara Falls, Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower and the Las Vegas Strip. n Follow Earth Hour Gibraltar on www. twitter.com/earthhourgib for all the latest news More information about Earth Hour on a global scale is available at www. earthhour.org

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well-being

Get well soon!

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Gibraltar businesswoman Anna Moffatt has set up a new wellness centre, after consolidating her property business Find a Property.

Here she explains her philosophy.

“The age of stress is definitely upon us, and by stress I don’t mean feeling tired, getting headaches, being irritable, etc, I mean the dangerous stress we cannot see, but feel through other symptoms and generally ignore.

This is the state of mind and body I am interested in and the state I am trying to highlight to people who are living in a constantly exhausted state.

Symptoms I often come across are total fatigue or manic behaviour, the feeling of heightened excitement and desperation and of total depression. Then there is hair loss, rapid weight loss, weight gain, rapid heart rate, especially at night, feelings of anxiety, night sweats, nightmares, many of which can be put down to classic symptoms of flu or normal everyday feelings result-

Wellness Centre — Maroua Kharbouch (Receptionist), Anna Moffatt (Proprietor and HTMA therapist), Pauline So (Acupuncturist)

ing from late nights and too much partying. However, BE AWARE, these symptoms can be a result of your body being completely over stressed by many things including high toxicity, bad diet, excess alcohol, heavy metal poisoning, overwork and an inability to process packaged foods.

The great thing is you do not have to live like this and can achieve an enormous change in the quality of your life, while ensuring that serious disease and illness in the future

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are significantly reduced.

To help in that quest I have recently set up the Wellness Centre, where more and more people are seeking help from alternative remedies.

Although, of course, prescribed drugs are sometimes necessary, rest, vitamins and mineral supplements and a good diet consisting of lots of vegetables and protein can change your body and the way it behaves. It will have a positive effect on your emotional and mental

state. A simple consultation will show you how to do it and which are the key areas for concern.

We offer acupuncture which helps open up channels and get energy flowing to stave off calcification of joints, also energy healing and massage. Coupled with counselling and hair mineral tissue analysis.

The main aim of the centre is not to make you beautiful from the outside... but to work on inner beauty and heal you from within.” n

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REAL-LIFE STORY

Before

Lower Face Lift and Neck Lift SMAS Aria Medical Group’s very own Chief Patient Care Coordinator undergoes cosmetic surgery and sees first-hand the patient experience from consultation to aftercare.

What procedure did you have?

‘I chose to have an SMAS neck and lower face lift.’

Why surgery?

‘I’m 49 years old and my facial skin was beginning to sag and I was getting jowly; really it’s as simple as that’, smiles Louise Truelove. ‘With ageing, skin naturally loses its elasticity; cheeks become less full, the skin sags and the neck develops jowls.’

‘In December 2011, I had an upper blepharoplasty, that’s the removal of the unsightly skin/fat/tissue that appears over your eyes as you get older. The procedure was a great success.

Over the years I have seen the superb results that face and neck lifts can give clients, so I wanted the same’ Are there alternatives?

‘There are non-surgical and minimally invasive alternatives to slow the ageing process, but in our experience nothing gives the natural and long lasting results of a cosmetic surgery procedure What were your concerns?

‘I think it’s fair to say that because I work in the cosmetic

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surgery sector, I didn’t share the concerns that some clients might have - I knew the procedure, the medical team, the hospital and the recovery time, and of course I have total confidence in them, so I was just eager to have the procedure.’

Did you have advice?

‘Just like any client, I had a medical consultation with Dr. Marco Vricella, during which we discussed the preparation for the facelift. Before surgery I was a smoker, so I decided to not only give up smoking for the recommended four weeks before the procedure, but to take this opportunity to give up for good! This maximises the possibility for healthy healing.

I was also scheduled to have my blood tests, ECG and chest x-ray, all of which are essential before surgery. These tests make sure one is healthy for the procedure.’

Tell us about the surgery.

‘I arrived early to the HC International Hospital in Marbella and was taken to my private room to relax before going into theatre. For 7 hours before the procedure it’s a case of ‘nil by mouth’, so that I was ready for the anaesthetic.

I have to admit that I was excited!

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‘Just before being taken to theatre I changed into a surgical gown and surgical stockings (to prevent a DVT) and then taken to see Dr. Marco Vricella and our anaesthetist in the operating theatre. Dr. Vricella outlined his incision areas with a surgical skin marker pen, and I also spoke with our anaesthetist and answered his questions.

The procedure took approximately 3 hours under general anaesthetic, during which time my skin was ‘redraped’, essentially it was pulled outwards and upwards and the excess skin removed. Some stitches were also placed under the skin to tighten the muscle layer under the face (the SMAS layer, hence the name of this type of facelift) which will give a longer lasting result.

The incisions were in the natural fold of skin in front of the ears, behind my ears and inside my hairline, so they

are not visible. Dr Marco Vricella prides himself on his natural results.

I was wearing a bandage around my head for 48 hours while staying at the hospital. Before going home the bandages were removed, and I wore a surgical support band.

After two weeks, the stiches came out and the bruising had gone, my neck has regained its youthful profile, the skin is not loose and my face doesn’t look tired anymore – I think I really do look 10 years younger!’

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The Miraculous Little Seed Pumpkin seeds are the only seed that is alkaline-forming; in this world of highly acidic diets, that is a very good thing.

These tasty seeds can be added to any cereal for breakfast, eaten as a snack, used in baking, or sprinkled on salads.

They’re filled with lots of minerals including phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, iron and copper and are a good source of vitamin K. These nutrition packed seeds also contain phytosterols, compounds that that have been shown to reduce levels of LDL cholesterol as well as L-tryptophan, which helps with good sleep and lowers depression. Tryptophan is converted into serotonin and niacin.

Serotonin is also very helpful in helping us to have a good night’s sleep.

They are most famous for being high in zinc, making them a natural protector against osteoporosis. Low intake of zinc is linked to higher rates of osteoporosis. In a study of almost 400 men (age from 45-92) published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition they found a correlation between low dietary intake of zinc, low blood levels of the trace mineral and osteoporosis at the hip and spine.

But there’s more — they are a good source vitamin E, an excel-

lent source of vitamin B group (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) and folates) and contain good quality protein. 100 g seeds provide 30 g.

According to studies, pumpkin seeds prevent calcium oxalate kidney stone formation, reduce inflammation for arthritis without the side effects of anti-inflamma-

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tory drugs, and are used in many cultures as a natural treatment for tapeworms and other parasites.

They are even good for prostate health and the oil in pumpkin seeds alleviates difficult urination that happens with an enlarged prostate.

Pumpkins seeds really are an easy way to up your nutrition in a cheap and simple form. n

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charity events 11th-15th March 2014

Childline’s Blue Week Get your company involved in Childline’s annual week of raising awareness and funds, 11th-15th March 2014 and help support their important work with children.

The most visual support comes in the form of encouraging your company’s employees to hold a “Blue Day” where they wear blue clothing and give a donation to the charity (see photo below for inspiration).

However any fund- and awareness raising events are welcomed

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too. What about a cake stall in your offices? Or do your staff have talents in other directions — perhaps they maker other tiems they could sell for the charity?

All companies who support Blue Week will get a special mention on Childline’s Facebook page and if you send them a picture of your event, they will share it!

Although mainly known for their Helpline, Childline also runs an Education Project locally and an Appropriate Adult Scheme for the Royal Gibraltar Police. Their Education Team visits schools, youth and sports groups and runs holiday schemes for children focusing on issues affecting them such as bullying, friendship and online safety.

The charity also runs regular, free Positive Parenting courses (see opposite) to encourage better behaviour and give parents the space to talk through and try to resolve their parenting issues.

This all forms part of their early intervention strategy which aims to prevent problems in later life.

The charity can also help organisations to draft and implement a suitable Safeguarding Policy and advise on safer recruitment of staff and volunteers who will have access to children.

Childline is totally dependent on private donations to fund its services to end cruelty to children in Gibraltar.

Interested in getting involved with Blue Week?

Childline has a team available to visit your place of work to talk to you about their services and how you can help end cruelty to children in Gibraltar. They also have corporate packs available to get you started. n For more information or to get involved, please e-mail info@childline.gi or call the office on 200 43503.

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the number of calls received last year by Childline’s telephone Helpline Service.

23% were abuse related, 21% were bullying related and 22% concerned problems with family relationships. These figures are pretty significant when you consider we are a community of under 30,000 people and they demonstrate our children’s need for the charity’s services.

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Be a Positive Parent...

Childline Gibraltar’s Positive Parenting course, to be held in mid-March, aims to encourage better behaviour through techniques that work well with every child, regardless of their age, temperament, background, culture or tradition.

We all know that raising children is a physical and emotional rollercoaster and it seems that parents today are under more pressure than ever before.

The techniques used in this fiveweek course build on your child’s wish to please you, guaranteeing a better-behaved, happy child and less-stressed parents.

They work by allowing you to create a good relationship with your child by showing love and affection, emphasising all the things that please you about your child.

Childline Gibraltar is committed to supporting mums and dads and the free Positive Parenting courses are practical, preventative, relationship-based, friendly

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and accessible — parents can find them literally life-changing. The feedback received from the course to date has been excellent and all participants stated they would recommend the course to other parents.

The next free five-week course on Positive Parenting begins on Tuesday 11th March at the John

Mackintosh Hall, 6.30-8pm.

Each course has limited places which must be reserved in advance. If you would like to register please contact info@childline.gi or call 54028331. n The project is funded by The Bonita Trust as part of the ongoing Schools Educational Programme.

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A Gibraltar Poem by an Enigmatic Funnyman...

words | Reg Reynolds

While researching the evolution of the word ‘gibberish’ for a story that appeared in the February edition of the Gibraltar Magazine I happened across a poem that I found both brilliant and hilarious.

The Rock of Gibberish Altar I burnished my armour til my fingers were sore, And girding it on the Gods I did implore.

Confident that I could neither fail nor falter, Much like the Moors in the Rock of Gibraltar.

I sallied forth from my keep, a maiden to woo, And with each plodding hoof-beat, my love only grew.

I thought of her virtues which so oft were extolled, And occasionally my heart I had to scold, For thinking what’s unbecoming of chivalry.

Through forests I ventured and down by the sea Scarcely I did notice – my mind was a whirl.

Oh, the things one will do just to get a girl!

I never considered the peasants that I knew, After all they are hackneyed like the town where I grew.

Now after riding for a weary week, Quite certain that my strength had sprung a leak – For scarcely I stopped to eat or sleep, And even my horse had started to weep Like a useless vow = the chateau came into view; And with reckless abandoned toward it I flew.

But no heralds or trumpets sounded my approach; Vaguely I saw that darkness the land did encroach.

But rather than use prudence and turn away, I pursued my course to that chateau cold and gray.

How is it the moat and drawbridge did greet Me alone? No sentry stood at guard on his feet.

If I had listened to reason, instead of pride, I never would have planted a cursed foot inside.

But my ambition for my fair lady proved strong, And I found that my feet carried me right along.

Lying on the altar at the foot of the stair, I saw that my maiden didn’t have any hair.

I rationalised myself to this thinking that If she went out in public she could wear a hat.

I bent down to give her a passionate kissing, And that’s when I realised all her teeth were missing.

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The poem appears in the book Rorschachs: Dramatic Verse and Somber, Twisted Tales written by Iyan Igma.

If you have read the poem to the end you will find that Mr. Igma is quite a talent with a twisted sense of humour, which he freely admits to on his website (www.iyanigma.com). Iyan Igma (pronounced E.N. Igma) is an obvious pseudonym and the man keeps his real name a secret on the website which adds that he is a “recluse”.

The opening paragraphs of his website give an idea of his quirky sense of humour.

“Some say Iyan Igma wasn’t hugged enough as a child. Others think that he’s a prophet or visionary. Still others think he only has eight toes. Of course, those are just the people that live inside his head.

“The real Iyan Igma is a mischievous, meddling, mediocre megalomaniac who hails from South Georgia but is a transplant to beautiful, desolate Montana.

Most people wouldn’t think that he’s as strange as his writings would make him appear. He likes peace and quiet, although he never gets any. He has been aptly described as one who apparently goes around breaking mirrors (purely in self-defense, though,) and one who has no life.”

Iyan Igma has eclectic tastes and lists his favourite poets as Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alexander Pope and Dr. Seuss.

He loves Shakespeare, Bernard

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Some say Iyan Igma wasn’t hugged enough as a child. Others think that he’s a prophet or visionary. Still others think he only has eight toes

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Shaw, Voltaire and Oscar Wilde.

He has written more than 1,000 poems and short stories which can be found in collections: The Dementia of Iyan Igma; The Repressed Memories of Iyan Igma; More Heresies from Iyan Igma and Senticous Tears on the Thysiastery.

His omnibus is titled Blather.

I am looking forward to reading his cookbook It Probably Won’t Kill You...Twisted Humour For Your Kitchen which he describes in his own review: “A blend of flavours from the South and Southwest, which will appeal to the non-health conscious, twisted, and slightly cannibalistic. Remember, I only said they probably won't kill you, but I offer no guarantee...”

Recipe titles include Hobo Dinners, First Date Fried Chicken, Irish Enchiladas and my favourite, Pee Can Pie. n

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past revisited General Joseph Sabine was Governor of Gibraltar (May 1730 to October 1739) but his ghostly experience came in 1704 during the War of the Austrian Succession and a month before the capture of Gibraltar. Sabine was severely wounded during the Battle of Schellenberg (2nd July, 1704) when an Allied army of British, Dutch, Swiss and Austrian troops, under the command of the Duke of Marlborough, defeated a combined French-Bavarian army.

Schellenberg * [See note] was the name of the 500-metre mound which the Allied troops had to climb in order to attack the heavily defended fortress at the top. It was a fierce battle with the Allies repeatedly storming the fortifications before breaking through and routing the enemy.

Senior officers, 45-year-old Lt.

He told the rector that his fellow soldiers didn’t believe in ghosts but that now their opinions he could “confidently oppose on the strongest grounds” Col. Sabine among them, personally led the charges and as a result an inordinate number of high ranks were killed or wounded. Six lieutenant generals were among the dead. In total 1,500 Allied troops were killed and 4,500 wounded. Franco-Bavarian losses were estimated at between 9,000 and 12,000, killed, wounded or taken prisoner.

I have not been able to find out exactly what wounds Sabine suffered but they were severe enough that he was described in a report as being ‘seriously ill’. It was during his rehab that he had words | Reg Reynolds a visitation (these days termed a ‘crisis apparition’).

In his book, Famous Ghost Stories: Legends and Lore, Brian Houghton wrote: “He was recovering and lay awake one night in his bed. By the light of a candle as the curtains I don’t believe in ghosts but I don’t (not) believe in them either. There is drew back his wife appeared, a lady whom he greatly loved. As so little we know about so many things that I keep an open mind when it suddenly as she appeared she comes to the unexplained. I personally have never seen a ghost but there vanished.

“Sabine was understandably are many who claim they have and one was a Governor of Gibraltar. affected by this vision, and wrote

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community down the experience in his notebook. Shortly afterword news arrived that his wife Hester had died in England, at the exact time she had appeared to her husband.”

Prior to this Sabine had not been a believer in ghosts. But on his return to England he spoke to Dr. Yarborough, the rector of his home village of Tewin. He told the rector that his fellow soldiers didn’t believe in ghosts but that now their opinions he could “confidently oppose on the strongest grounds”.

The rector believed the story and described Sabine as “a person of great honour and veracity, and much good sense”.

Tragically, Hester Sabine (nee Whitfield) was only 24 when she died. She had given birth to three boys but all had died at a young age.

Tragically, Hester Sabine (nee Whitfield) was only 24 when she died. She had given birth to three boys but all had died at a young age In 1710 Sabine remarried to Margaret Newsham and they produced nine children.

Sabine went on to command the Citadel of Ghent where he put down a mutiny in 1712. In 1716 he went to Scotland to fight against the Jacobites and later became Commander of the British Army in Scotland. He entered Parliament as representative for

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Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1727 and in 1730 he was promoted to general and appointed Governor of General of Gibraltar.

Governor Sabine’s tenure at Gibraltar wasn’t without controversy as an element of citizenry believed that he favoured the military over civilians. As an example, when a worker in the Ordnance Yard assaulted an officer who had consorted with his wife, Governor Sabine illegally ordered

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a court martial and the worker was sentenced to 300 lashes. The punishment was so “shockingly executed” that the man was unable to work. As a consequence he sued the Governor at King’s Bench and was awarded £700 in damages.

General Josephine Sabine died at Gibraltar on October 24th, 1939 aged 78. His body was taken to be buried at St. Peter’s Churchyard in the village of Tewin, Stafford-

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Jimmy Bruzon and John Gill were thrilled to receive the donation. Jimmy commented “It is fantastic to see students here supporting students in Sierra Leone.

Wonderful effort from the Gibraltar Students Association who have again donated a large sum to Action4schoolsSierra Leone. The funds will change lives in Sierra Leone, 100% guaranteed. A big thank you from the children at Kabala Amputee Primary School who will benefit directly from this donation, the funds will be used to build a school extension for them.” www.action4schools.gi or e-mail info@ action4schools.gi or telephone 57631000

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His grave was topped by a massive marble base supporting a sizeable pyramid flanked by urns.

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The Gibraltar Dentist & The Sultan’s Eunuchs words | Reg Reynolds

There can be few dentists who worked under the pressure faced by Dr. Frank Bostwick. For nearly four decades Dr. Bostwick practised dentistry on the Rock of Gibraltar, which was difficult enough more than 100 years ago, but the real pressure came when he acted as dental surgeon to the Sultan of Morocco, Muley Abdul Aziz.

An American, Dr. Bostwick opened his independent surgery in Gibraltar in 1904 and word soon got around that he was particularly good at his profession. In April, 1907 he received a request to attend to the teeth of the Sultan of Morocco at Fez. He duly travelled to Tangier by boat and then six days overland by camel.

Dr. Bostwick would have been a tad concerned about causing the Sultan discomfort because it was stipulated in the agreement that, while attending to the teeth of the royal favourites, two eunuchs would stand over him armed with scimitars. Now that’s pressure.

Any major slip up and the poor doctor might have been requiring a new head. Fortunately the Sultan was a model patient.

“The Sultan endures pain well,” wrote Dr.

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Bostwick. “After working on the molars if he is particularly happy he slaps me on the back.

Later we play golf, bowling or billiards.”

Dr. Bostwick became so trusted that he was invited to check the teeth of the harem.

“The admission of an outsider to this place is unprecedented,” he wrote to his family.

Dr. Bostwick of Coshocton, Ohio, was only 23 in 1902 when he was invited to Europe to treat King Alfonso XIII of Spain. He served the Spanish Royal family for two years before settling in Gibraltar. Dr. Bostwick wrote that the King was also good at handling pain but he did not enjoy his time in Madrid which he found far too hot.

“I do not like Madrid as a place to live – a little bit too hot — 125°F,” (52°Celsius) he wrote, adding that “Some English writer has

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said, ‘Madrid has three months of winter and nine months of hell’.”

Dr. Bostwick didn’t care much for Spain but he was impressed with the country’s cathedrals and art.

“This country is all right for sight-seeing but as a country to live in it is abominable.”

He did enjoy a trip to Toledo, as he wrote to his family: “Since I left you in New York I have certainly seen more than it is possible for me to describe. I went Saturday with an American an Englishman and a Spaniard, who speaks English very well, to Toledo one of the greatest historic cities in the world. I was in a cathedral there, the magnificence of which I never knew existed. The paintings, statuary etc., are beyond description. On an image of the Virgin Mary they have more than enough jewels to buy the national debt of Spain and there is another altar made of solid gold.

“It is certainly wonderful how advanced in art they are and how far behind in other things.

Would you believe me if I should tell you that there are more forked sticks used as ploughs than there are of the crudest kind of the modern agricultural implements.”

The young dentist was not pleased with Spanish rites of courtship either.

“The girls are behind barred windows as all the windows are that way here especially those on the first floors or on the balcony of the second floor. They talk to their lovers who stand below and on Sundays they practically spend all day talking at long range. Well excuse

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me from that kind of courting. I shall stay single first.”

Dr. Bostwick also noted that King Alfonso was not popular.

“The King was not well liked,” said Bostwick, “and the people for years knew that Royalty cared nothing for them. Alfonso is a good king but it would not surprise me to hear at any time of him being killed.”

Maybe it was the threat of assassination or maybe it was the heat but Dr. Bostwick decided he would rather live and work in Gibraltar. He married an American woman named May and they raised a family on the Rock where they lived for 37 years.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Dr. Bostwick reported to newspapers back home. The articles show that he sided with the Nationalists: “A picture of horror almost impossible to realize is drawn by Dr. Bostwick, who described

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friends shot for trifles, blinded and left to suffer, children suspended on butcher’s meat hooks, women ravished before the eyes of their loved ones... untold thousands of educators, statesmen, industrialists and professional men fled the country just before the uprising because of the grotesque conditions wrought by the fanatic Red leaders... blames government forces or ‘Reds’ for the atrocities in his letter and declares that all those who have friends in Spain tremble should the government forces ultimately be victorious.”

Dr. Bostwick stayed on at Gibraltar when World War II broke out but by 1941 most of the civilians had been evacuated and he returned to live in America.

Upon his arrival back in Coshocton he told the press: “I don’t think they can ever take Gib. When I left Gibraltar the British had supplies enough for a three-year siege stored in the fort. They have a hospital, an underground water works and a distillation plant.”

In his final years Dr. Bostwick became a popular speaker; at a dinner about child behaviour he opined: “It is wise to punish children, but not corporally. I know a dentist in Gibraltar who got out a birch rod to punish his little son with one day. The boy, looking at the rod, said piteously: Papa, would you mind giving me gas first.”

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Fashion from the Other Side words | Elena Scialtiel

Ambitious go-getter Creative Marketing and PR graduate and former model Anjali Soneji is exactly where she wants to be at the green age of 25.

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And her ‘where’ is a flat in the London Bridge area and a short commute to her office in Chelsea, where she manages the technical marketing for up-and-coming fashionable business, The Camouflage Company, that produces hip storage ranges and spacious bags.

Determination bordering obstinacy drove her all the way up, after she was about to quit, pack her bags and return home to Gibraltar with her tail between her legs.

“After I graduated, I was unemployed for over six months in London. My dream career was becoming a distant dream, and I was just aiming to get any job that paid the rent, in order to stay there and scout the right

I didn’t know I could be interested in the business side of it, but I started loving it and it was an exciting four years. I learned a lot about myself as well, besides enjoying lectures from top names from top brands in the field

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opportunity.

“I was on the phone with my family every night, almost in tears, and they advised me to come home, not to endure that uncertainty, but I was determined to succeed. I had worked very hard to obtain my degree and I didn’t want it to go to waste.

“When one says university student, one conjures up images of wild partying, but the reality was far from it. My last year in university was all about work-work-work. I had no social life and sometimes I even fell asleep at

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the library. It has been a very long summer, but eventually I landed my internship. And here I am: Technical Marketing & PR Assistant for a company where I am treated well and able to learn a lot, I am not there just for filing and coffee runs...” Anjali sums up her story so far.

Only five years ago she would have never have imagined she would be so good at marketing, when she first enrolled in a Fashion Design university degree. “Soon after I started, I didn’t like it. It wasn’t as passionate as I anticipated it to be. I felt tutoring wasn’t as helpful as it should be and I didn’t see myself growing there.”

So, she decided to tackle the creative industry from the other side of the lens. “I switched to Fashion Promotion and Imaging, which includes marketing & PR, photography, imaging and design new media. I didn’t know I could be interested in the business side of it, but I started loving it and it was an exciting four years. I learned a lot about myself as well, besides enjoying lectures from top names from top brands in the field.”

And so, the child model who left the catwalk at the age of 17 with the prospect of pursuing a career in criminal law, abandoned her robe and wig aspirations soon after a negative work-experience placement which made her realise she didn’t want to turn into a “boring suit with no personality underneath”.

“My mother entered me in many local pageants, since the age of seven. I was in the likes of Miss Barbie, Miss Youth Centre... My highlight was Miss Glamour in 2005. Being in the spotlight surely helped my confidence.

And having seen how much behind-thescenes work is required at a fashion show, I was ready to undertake it.”

As part of her field-experience coursework, Anjali helped designer Renee Weston organise the first ever Gibraltar Fashion Week in 2012.

“It was one of those Devil wears Prada situations: with a team of just three people, I was on call 24/7 to look after the designers and their garments, cast the models, organise and supervise the launch party and its catering, pick up and drive people and things to and fro the airport... Of course it was experimental and Gibraltar is not Paris or London, so we were pretty much a one-man-band, out on our own and very hands-on. It was hectic, but it taught me to keep calm and collected, and allowed me to build important contacts.”

For instance, she met Caprice and Emmanuel Ray. Furthermore, London-based PR director David J Mann took her up for a three-week internship with a fashion scouting agency, where she worked with press and marketing, while meeting celebs and rubbing elbows with the jet-set.

Anjali is also an accomplished fashion photographer, despite describing herself as “serious hobbyist with still plenty to learn”.

She does fashion-oriented photo-shoots as well as still-life and has built a sizeable portfolio including a collaboration with a fashion designer friend during their university days.

“I’m still learning about shutter and light effects, but I tend to take hundreds and hundreds of photos and then pick out just a handful. Even if they look exactly the same,

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I’m still learning about shutter and light effects, but I tend to take 100s and 100s of photos and then pick out just a handful. Even if they look exactly the same, there’s always a small difference that makes all the difference

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there’s always a small difference that makes all the difference: in natural light, the sun position or the fluidity of the clouds can influence the final outcome of shadows.”

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subject, so that she will shoot romantic pastel gowns in suffused lighting and dramatic looks in sharp chiaroscuros. But she admits that fashion photography is not as easy as it looks, because it must extol all the qualities of a garment in a two-dimensional environment, while the live catwalk allows a view from all angles. This implies snapping photos from all angles indeed, and later choose those that best portray its style and make it pop out of the printed page.

And she practises what she preaches, as she can also cut and stitch fabrics: “My Mum used to make saris for Indian Gods statues in our home, and I learned how to sew from an early age. I had to make a dress as part of my application package to university and so I did. Anybody can make a dress if they have a vision in mind and a good pattern on paper!”

Her dressmaker persona has been parked for the moment, since Anjali is rather preoccupied with SWOT analysis nowadays. Ready to fight — and win — fashion wars...

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Pepe Soiza

A rebel with a good cause words | Nina Sostaric

Photo courtesy Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support Group - Facebook page

Joseph Soiza, known as Pepe, has dedicated his life to fighting for good causes. He is one of those people who cannot stay quiet when he witnesses an injustice. He has always tried to do the right thing and help the less fortunate and despite his age he still does. The Gibraltar Magazine spoke to him to learn more about his activism.

Pepe and Charo Soiza with Lady Suzie at the Convent

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It was only by coincidence that Pepe became the first President of the Gibraltar Senior Citizens Association when he was just 42 years old. “I was at the John Mackintosh Square socialising with people, when some politicians came out of the Lower House of Assembly, as we called it back then. There was an elderly person, who started chatting with one of the politicians and asked him if they could have a place to go for a cup of coffee — with the high prices he could not afford to go to the local bars. The politician responded in a rude manner, saying if you don’t have the money to go to the Piazza bar, buy a flask and you can have three cups of coffee per day. I went mad,” he says. “I promised the senior citizen, that I would help him obtain a club.”

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arts focus who wants, can do much more than he who can’. So he started meeting people and finally arranged a meeting with the Governor, Sir William Jackson, who later organised a meeting with Bishop Edward Rapallo who then gave them a small room at the Catholic Community Centre. The senior citizens selected a committee and wanted Pepe as their president.

“I said, ‘I beg your pardon, this is a senior citizens club and I am 42 years old!‘ They said, ‘Either you accept this, or we all walk out!’ So I agreed to become a president for one year.

“I should have entered the Guinness Book of Records for being the youngest President of a senior citizens association!” he chuckles.

Importantly, Joseph Soiza suggested that it should be one of the first associations to be open to both sexes and the members accepted the proposal. A lot of women got involved, and they had lots of activities, playing bingo and other board games.

In his year as a president he organised trips for the senior citizens, they had tea in St Michaels Cave and arranged fishing trips for those who wanted to go fishing. Since the border was closed, everybody wanted to socialise and the Gibraltar community grew stronger.

Pepe would organise free biscuits, sugar, tea and soft drinks, which they would later sell in the Senior Citizens Club to help get things started. He also negotiated free bus rides for the members of the senior citizens club, they had free haircuts at Vincents Salon and they got 50 complimentary tickets every Thursday to go to the cinema.

Pepe says he was not interested in talking about things and taking photos, he would rather get things done. He remembers how he helped the poorer people to get new clothes and shoes. Later in 1982 they took charge of the current premises at Town Range with the help of The Rotary Club.

On the 25th anniversary of the Senior Citizens Association, he was made an Honourable Member.

He was still an active member of the association when his wife Charo Soiza was diagnosed with dementia in 2000. He was told that there was no medical care available in Gibraltar and so he had to take her to Algeciras, where they ran a daily clinic. And so began his campaign to get proper medical care for people with

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Alzheimer’s and dementia in Gibraltar.

He talked to the medical staff at St. Bernard’s Hospital and told them “I am going to do that myself!” and the doctors told him he had their support. The Minister at that time (Mr. Netto) told Pepe he would try to find some premises, but in the end nothing happened.

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DFAS Lecture 19th March 2014

Beauty and the Bizarre: The Art of Hellenistic Greece

On his visit he will talk about the response to Greek Art of the Hellenistic period, this period dates from between Alexander the Great and Cleopatra.

DFAS’s lecturer for March is Dr Stephen Kershaw — a Classics Tutor for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education, and Professor of Art for the European Studies Programme of Rhodes College and the University of the South.

By shedding light on stunning works like the Venus Di Milo, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon, as well as exploring some of the era’s finest architectural achievements, Mr Kershaw will look at the defining features of Greek Art and architecture during the period.

Stephen has spent much of the last 30 years travelling extensively in the world of the Greeks and Romans both physically and intellectually and published many works on these subjects.

Guests are welcome —£10 at the door — or take advantage of the special membership offer of £35 for the last four lectures of this season, saving £5, and entitling you to a discount for next year’s subscription. n

Sadly, Pepe says, Mrs Soiza was getting worse and worse in the meantime, because she was not getting the proper medical care.

People with the same problems started gathering around Joseph Soiza and they formed The Gibraltar Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support Group.

“My wife was a human vegetable, and I had to pay £90 per week for her treatment. Now the government is paying for the patients.

Moreover, the government is now opening a residence at the Old Naval Hospital and a Daily Clinic for Alzheimer’s patients in 2014,” he adds, pleased with the results. “I would like to thank Minister Sacramento and Dr Cortes for their assistance with this matter. They

Is it the pinnacle of Greek achievement, or is it the artistic expression of a decaying, decadent culture?

The lecture will be held at the Eliott Hotel from 6.30pm for complimentary drinks. Lecture follows at 7.30pm.

have been a great help to people who require this support. My wife is now in much better care and she has recovered a lot. Before she was sitting in a chair for 4.5 years, now with the help of mental and physical therapy as well as physical exercise she can do a lot on her own. She speaks, she can move her head and arms, sometimes she is on her own!” he smiles happily.

“I read about Alzheimer’s a lot, and I bought her a stereo for her birthday, and she just loves listening to the music. It keeps the brain active and she sometimes sings along! I hope things will go well in the future. I live for the present, but I still hope things will get better in the future,” Pepe concludes. n

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1920s glamour Phyllis Farrugia

Top: Nanny Phyllis Above: Phyllis (right) with her brother Phillip’s daughter Elizabeth Olivero and great nephews Richard and Andrew.

Elizabeth says “Phyllis was always my favourite Aunt”

An Inspiring Philosophy

At 107 years of age Phyllis Farrugia is probably the oldest living Gibraltarian. She was born in 1906, before the First World War, before the Titanic sank, long before women could vote, and when our present Queen’s great-grandfather, Edward VII, was King.

19 year old Michael Farrugia during a visit to his aunt Phyllis in 1979

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We asked Phyllis, who celebrated her 107th birthday in November last year, about her experiences and memories, and the secret of a long and healthy life.

Phyllis began her story in Gibraltar and says life as a young Gibraltarian was “good fun” in those early days. She remembers fondly visits to the cinema, family parties and enjoying the delights of the Alameda Gardens. “Parents were strict in those days,” she adds, “and we were encouraged to be polite and have good manners.”

Phyllis became a Nanny to the family of Gibraltar’s longest serving Police Commissioner, DS Gowing, when she was 30, a decision which was to eventually take her to the UK where she now lives in a Care Home in the village of Holmbury St. Mary.

“I came to the Gowing family in 1937 four years after their eldest son Rupert was born,

followed by Timothy in 1937 and then Jane.

We all lived in North Pavilion Road with a nice garden and views of the bay,” she remembers fondly.

“During the war in 1940 I was evacuated to the UK with Mrs Gowing, Rupert and Timothy (Jane was born in the UK) firstly to Norfolk and then, with the threat of an invasion on the East coast, to Gloucestershire. We returned to Gibraltar in 1944, where life returned to normal. Captain Gowing, as he was known, left Gibraltar in 1953 having completed 20 years on the Rock most of that time as Commissioner of Police.”

And so it was that moving to the UK in 1953 was not so much of a shock for 46 year old Phyllis as she had already lived there during wartime.

“There was little to do at the Gowings with the children at school and so I took up ‘house-

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Photos clockwise from top: Phyllis at her house in Westcott 1983; Photo taken at Tim Gowing’s school sports day - Phyllis is pictured wearing white standing behind Jane Gowing (wearing the large hat at the front left); Phyllis pictured (back row, second from right) at her sister Adelina’s wedding; Phyllis with Tim Gowing last year.

keeping’ with various Norfolk families,” she recalls. “Then in about 1980 I moved to Surrey where I continued to be a house keeper in the village of Westcott with more families. I was a great ‘ironer’,” she chuckles, “and ironed for more village residents.”

Phyllis has always been sociable and enjoys a quiet life meeting different people. “Being fond of walking I would meet many local people for a chat and also looked after Timothy Gowing’s dog when they were away. In 1983 I retired and moved into a flat in the village.”

Phyllis explains that while she never married she “was engaged once!” Sadly her parents did not approve of Phyllis’ fiance and so there was never a wedding. Later her sister Adelina, faced with the same dilemma, married her gentleman, and one can only imagine Phyllis’s thoughts in the photograph on this page at the wedding.

Phyllis’ life has been an enjoyable one so far and she explains her philosophy — “I have always loved watching people and observing what is going on around. Always happy to help others, I was never afraid of hard work.”

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In about 1980 I moved to Surrey where I continued to be a house keeper in the village of Westcott with more families. I was a great ‘ironer’,” she chuckles, “and ironed for more village residents” “Moderation in all things,” she says emphatically, “and a weekly glass of Guinness seems to have helped, along with a daily banana!”

Phyllis moved into a care home in Holmbury St. Mary last July, which is now her permanent home. Tim Gowing and his wife Marion still live in Westcott, Jane Gowing lives 20 minutes away, and they visit Phyllis regularly. We asked Tim to sum up Phyllis in two sentences and he replied without hesitation “I have never heard her complain!” and “She always sees the Phyllis (top right) with her sisters Isabel (Hook) and Adelina best in people.” n (Marriott), brother Phillip (later Phillip Farrugia BEM), mum Adelina (centre) and dad José (alive when this photo was taken but added above)

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FIRST PRIZE: Lunch for 2 at The Clipper

One entry per person.

Closing date: 16th March 2014 Last month’s winner: Chris Eggleton Cannon Lane LAST MONTH’S ANSWERS: Across: Bourse, Spigot, Gravest, Adieu, Rased, Abstain, Beer Bellies, Precast, Noose, Lento, Nougats, Solent, Please.

Down: Bogart, Urals, Spender, Pears, Grimace, Trauant, St Valentine, Eterrnal, Lingual, Apples, Lessee, Acorn, Obama.

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Across 1 Like bread with a firm exterior (6) 4 A red suit (6) 9 Book; one standing in for another (7) 10 Type of hair dye (5) 11 Bizarre; fantastic (5) 12 Untangle (7); get this answer

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window or the window itself (5) 23 Espied; discerned (7) 24 A score (6) 25 Estimate; calculate (6) Down 1 Bugs Bunny’s favourite vegetable (6) 2 Confound; unnerve (5) 4 Agony (7) 5 The moral philosophy of an

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What’s On March 2014

Saturday 1st March Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association at Casemates Square 10am-2pm. For information contact Howard Danino Tel: 20074657 or emailhoward@gibraltar.gi www.Gibraltarclassicar. com Thursday 6th March World Book Day. The popular Book Crossing and Book Fair. Local authors will have a stand from where the they will be promoting and signing their books from 10am. A special Story Time and fun games for children aged between 4 and 8 starting at 4pm in the Library.

Children are encouraged to come dressed in their favourite book character costume. For information Tel: 20075669 or email: kimberley. andres@culture.gov.gi Friday 14th March Gibraltar Botanic Gardens Tours - Wild Plants & Conservation led by Keith Bensusan 10.30am Price £5 adults, children free of charge. For further information Tel: 20041235 Wednesday 19th March DFAS’s lecturer for March is Dr Stephen Kershaw Beauty and the Bizarre: The Art of Hellenistic Greece. The lecture is held at the Eliott Hotel from 6.30pm for complimentary drinks. Lecture follows at 7.30pm.

Saturday 29th March Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society Monthly Outing – Willmill Hill Flats — birds, plants and insects (numbers limited book in advance). Meet Lathbury Barracks 9.30am.

For further information Keith Bensusan, Charles Perez and Leslie Linares Tel: 54001111 Email: kbensusan@gonhs.

A Festival of Drama...

The Ince’s Hall Theatre will come alive between 17th and 22nd March 2014 for Gibraltar Drama Festival. There is something to tempt even the most reluctant theatre goer off their sofa with a great line-up of plays from comedy to physical theatre.

Tuesday 18th March Santos Production Academy presents: All Gone a non-competitive entry by junior players — a short comedy by Julia Donaldson

Theatre 8pm

The Ant and the Grasshopper a noncompetitive entry by infant players by Julie Meighan.

Medway Littley Theatre Youth Co – UK presents The Fag House a physical theatre play by Bob Cooke

Friendly Difference a comedy drama by Kerry Muir-Youth players

International Theatre Studio based on the Costa del Sol, Spain, presents Strictly Sex Factor on Ice a comedy by David Tristram

Rock Theatre presents No Minister an original comedy by Leroi Capeldi Saturday 29th March Craft & Collectors Fair, St Andrew’s Church, Governor’s Parade 10am-2pm. Entrance £1 The March Craft & Collectors Fair will see an eclectic mix of stalls, offering everything from traditional collectables, antiques and bric-abrac to original arts and crafts. You will find silverware, jewellery, cards for every occasion, coins and stamps, toy soldiers, dolls house items, the ever popular jigsaw puzzles and books, and much more. As usual you can enjoy delicious home-made cakes and sandwiches in the lounge at very reasonable prices. Stalls are £10 including table and cloth.

For further information call 54023166.

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Wednesday 19th March Trafalgar Theatre Group presents: Pool (No Water) a drama by Mark Ravenhill Santos Production presents: My Women an original drama by Christian Santos.

Thursday 20th March Fresh Wineskins Theatre Company – UK presents How to be A Saint a comedy

by Nick Fromings Santos Productions Theatre presents Teen Tales an original drama by the cast of youth players and Christian Santos, Gabrielle Garcia and Eva Wahnon at Ince’s Hall

Friday 21st March Rock Theatre presents: Julius and Cleopatra a coarse comedy by Michaels Green

Saturday 22nd March Gala Night. Final presentation of three plays selected by the Adjudicator to provide a balanced evening’s entertainment, followed by the awards ceremony by the Minister for Culture.

Tickets for the festival will be on sale on weekdays at the John Mackintosh Hall from 3rd March between 9.30am and 5pm Performance - £5.00 Gala Night - £10.00 Season Tickets - £20.00 For information contact the Ministry of Culture on Tel: 20067236 or email: cultureinfo@culture.gov.gi

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Frankie demonstrates to students

Karate: In Frankie’s Dojo Frankie Hatton is well known in Gibraltar for this radio shows and charity work with Wobbles, as well as written articles featured in this magazine — however not so many people know he is a black belt in karate and he’s willing to teach you how.

Tell us more about your sporting background?

I think like most people I've tried a few of them in fact I've played football for several RAF stations including in the Sardinian southern football league for RAF Decimomanu and one of the Norfolk leagues for RAF Coltishall for 4 years. As a youngster I did judo some track stuff but it wasn't until later I regularly ran more than 50 miles a week, did circuit training and weight training to keep myself fit. My favourite of course is shotokan karate which I first started in 1982 for 18 months but due to a posting it stopped until I started it again in Portsmouth in 1991.

Tell us about Karate and your reasons for being involved in this of all martial arts?

How does it differ from other disciplines?

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I think I was always meant to do it. I looked at several martial arts — Judo, Tae Kwan do, Kendo — but they never had the draw of Shotokan Karate.

After starting in 1991, it soon became obvious this is the one sport I could excel at. Whether it was the discipline, the practice or simply that

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Traditional Shotokan is very different from other styles, it is powerful and some contact is expected

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I liked being hit a lot, I just loved it and really have never stopped since then.

Traditional Shotokan is very different from other styles, it is powerful and some contact is expected. The teaching is disciplined and I am used to students coming and leaving once their mothers aren't around to wipe their noses anymore.

It is expected that the student devotes his time to training twice a week for 90 minutes a session. We follow all the traditions of a Japanese martial art including respecting each other and respecting the traditions of the dojo (training hall). We are there to learn.

I became a member of the Shotokan of England Karate Union (SEKU) and pretty soon after getting my first couple of belts I was thrust into competition. I was fortunate to get a 1st in the Kata when a purple/white belt and

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a third place kata as a brown belt. After that as a brown/2 white stripes belt (one below a black belt) myself and two black belt team mates won Bronze, Silver and finally Gold in the team kata/kumite event. Kata is the forms where you complete a set sequence of moves, kumite is freestyle fighting.

Following these sucesses I was selected for the SEKU squad and we represented England at the Santos World Cup, Brazil in 1997. We won silver in the team kumite event, losing in the final to the Slovakian team. I also went to Trnva in Slovakia for their Christmas Tournament in 1997 and 1998 — my only trophies were a broken nose in the kumite in '97 and a semi final losing 'pat on the back' from the coach in '98.

I'd begun teaching at RAF Uxbridge before I gained my black belt in 1995. I was also training by now with Sensei Kienosuke Enoeda at his dojo on Marshall Street in London. He is probably one of THE most famous Japanese karate-ka of his time, being one of the JKA entourage that brought Shotokan karate to Europe, specifically UK in the late ’60s.

Apart from Brazil and Slovakia I travelled to Australia training around the country in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville, Melbourne and Perth all in shotokan including several sessions with the Australian Karate Squad. In Adelaide I spent an hour with a Ninjitsu instructor who held an impromptu knife defence lesson for me whilst killing time waiting for a bus to Melbourne. I also tried my hand at Ju Jitsu in Australia and attended a course with Professor Jan de Jong, an expat Dutch martial artist who had a dojo in Perth. I continued Ju Jitsu back in London with Jikishin under the auspices of Professor Terry Parker but had to stop on posting to Norfolk. In America I paid a visit to Kang Ree's karate dojo in Memphis, Tennessee nothing special in that except I got to meet the man who trained Elvis Presley.

bag. I have trained several people on visits to Gibraltar especially military when they had one or two months here and wanted a training partner or instructor. I basically teach from beginner to black belt and beyond.

Finally about 18 months ago I was asked to teach a student and I agreed. Since then through word of mouth we have added a few more students so I affiliated the club with SEKU. My students have their examinations every four months with my Sensei from Portsmouth, Mick Dewey 8th Dan. Our next examination is in March.

to have its own team and compete abroad, particularly in UK and Europe. The club is in its infancy but already I took one of my students to the SEKU Open Invitation Tournament last November to experience competition. His experience filters to the other students and eventually I will have a team. The more experience they gain, the better they become and subsequently the better the results.

I am hoping I can create our own Gasshaku (seminar) where I will bring top class instructors to teach over a long weekend and within that hold a competition to attract students and competitors from around the world to our shores. Start small, think big. I need more people interested to increase the size of the club.

At the moment I don't teach children so I am looking for adults, and I'm sure many people have often thought about a martial but didn't follow it through.

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Who attends your classes? Is there a sector of the community you’d like to see more of?

At the moment I have several students, mostly mature business people who I suppose enjoy destressing their day trying to punch each other a lot. It is always nice to have some younger students and females too to give the club more depth and variety. Besides, nothing keeps a male karate student's feet on the ground more than getting his ass kicked by a woman and Training takes place at midday on Monday for beginners some of the ones I've trained with hit hard! with the rest of the students training Monday evening How do you see Karate moving forward in Gibraltar for the future? What would need to happen for you to achieve your goals?

One of the things I really want is Gibraltar

at 8.30pm. The second lesson is on Thursday at 8.30pm (afterwards there is usually a beverage). Most of the training is in town at a temporary dojo but Framkie also take students privately. Contact him on mobile 54038127 or email info@fhmedia.co.uk for details.

How long has your club been in existence? To what level do you teach?

Initially I had little time to teach here in Gibraltar and there wasn't much interest so I continued my training alone. At one time in the gym at DTC I had a regular Wednesday session where I would be there for over an hour practising my kata and kicking or punching a Students Jared, Brendan and Andrew with Frankie GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE • MARCH 2014

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events International Dance Co Helps Celebrate 30 Years for GAD This year the Gibraltar Academy of Dance celebrates its 30th anniversary. As part of its celebrations, Transitions Dance Company will be coming to Gibraltar in March for workshops and a public performance. The event is organised with the support of the Ministry of Culture and will take place between the 23rd and 26th March 2014.

Transitions Dance Company is a leading student training company, a space for choreographic experimentation and a touring programme of dance rolled into one. It combines the best young dance performers of their generation with innovative choreographers working around the world to create surprising, inventive and accessible dance for everyone to enjoy.

Transitions Dance Company

will be running a series of dance workshops both in educational establishments and dance schools on Monday 24th March. The public performance will be at the John Mackintosh Hall Theatre on Tuesday 25th March at 8pm.

Transitions will perform a mixed bill of new, progressive dance work specially commissioned from both established and upcoming choreographers Stefanie Batten Bland, Ikky Maas and Dog Kennel Hill Project. The variety of three choreographers repertory offers a diverse programme, and a standard of performance that will excite dance enthusiasts.

Stefanie’s physically demanding full company dance work has a strong theatrical flavour that is emotionally driven and poetic, evoking worlds of human communication and spirit. Ikky’s abstract and traditionally technical sextet is structured around a central duet set to a vibrant Handel score, the group fragments into trios, duos and solos as people subtly change allegiance. Using text, voice and song, Dog Kennel Hill Project is known for creating pieces with an interesting audience/performer relationship. Difficult to categorise, but always with acute attention to detail and craft, the work is smart, eccentric and often very humorous.

The workshops are open to young students of all abilities aged 12 onwards. The workshop participation fee is £10 per person and will also include a ticket to see the show. n

Have You Got Talent?

The Gibraltar’s Got Talent team are now recruiting talents for the 2014 competition. Whatever your talent and whatever your age, get an application form and get noticed! You have until Monday 31st March 2014 to apply.

Winner’s main prize is £1000 cash and the lucky and talented winner will get the chance to represent Gibraltar abroad.

Entry is free and application forms are available from email: gibraltarsgottalent@gmail.com or search for Gibraltar's Got Talent on Facebook. For those who’d rather request by telephone call 54026013. n

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Whatever your talent and whatever your age, enter Gibraltar’s Got Talent for a fun experience and the chance to win £1000

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Media Pressure On Teenagers words | Eve Maddock-Jones, A-Level Student at Westside

The presence of the media in teenagers’ lives has never been more prominent.

They’re constantly surrounded by TV, computers, magazines etc. which has resulted in a bombardment of media pressures.

The most obvious pressure is that of body image. It is now estimated that 37% of teenage girls aged 13-18 suffer with an eating disorder, a figure that continues to rise. “We constantly have images of stick thin girls thrown at us through social media, who are Photoshopped beyond belief.” This body image pressure is felt amongst boys too since “whenever you see a man in any advertisement or TV show they’re all unbelievably muscle bound. It leads to unrealistic expectations.”

These were comments made by fellow students and were even felt amongst teachers, who have seen “many teenagers go through the painful suffering of trying to achieve a certain look.”

This whole concept of looking a “certain way” or having a “real body” is a myth as no body type is “unreal”, size 8 or 20, six pack

or fat pack, but it is a myth that teenagers continuously fall victim to, resulting largely from media pressures.

The issue of body image has always been a problem, going back for generations. “One time it was considered beautiful to be curvy and voluptuous, but now skinny is the new curvy.”

It doesn’t just stop at body image though, we’re constantly told what to wear, how to “get the boy/girl and dump the boy/girl”, “good” foods and “bad” foods. All aspects of our lives are influenced by what we see and read, and with easy access to online information

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it has left teens more vulnerable to media pressures.

But not all aspects of increased media access are negative, of course. We now live in an age where you can download the world’s greatest works of literature within minutes and neatly fit them into your back pocket.

“Whilst some aspects of the media pose distractions to teenagers there are parts which allow them to greatly enrich their learning,” said a local Westside teacher. This is perhaps one of the greatest beauties about living in an “online generation”.

Previously you were restricted

We now live in an age where you can download the world’s greatest works of literature within minutes and neatly fit them into your back pocket

to knowing what your teachers taught and the few books easily available to you. Now however we have an abundance of information freely available at our fingertips.

This means teenagers learn and are actively involved in world issues — gay rights laws, politics etc — as well as being able to learn about lost worlds of the past.

It has provided a window to enrich their minds and develop their own opinions of the world, with more resources than past generations ever had.

So, while the minds of teenagers do suffer with the media telling us how to eat, dress, look etc. it has broadened our horizons exponentially, opening up a chasm of knowledge freely available. This is the paradox of today’s media effect on teenagers, it’s corrupting their minds but enriching them at the same time. n

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Fabulous Films

compiled by Pennie Gwilt

Films can make us laugh, make us cry, make us think — or simply entertain us for a couple of hours. We hit the street to ask the great Gibrlatar public what their favourite films are and why the would recommend them. This is what they said.

pJanet Grant Director, Image Graphics Out of Africa with Meryl Streep.

“It’s based on a true story, it is a romantic drama set on a plantation in Africa. I lived in Nairobi so can identify with the stunning scenery and images and way of life.”

tDeepak Ramchandani MAC make-up consultant Shawshank Redemption — an American drama based in a prison, starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins ”I would recommend this film because its serious, emotional and brilliant. It’s just an epic movie.”

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qAnita Hutchinson-Smith Office Manager The Birdcage starring Robin Williams and Gene Hackman “The film is based on the play La Cage Aux Folles; it’s a very funny film about the owners of a American drag club meeting their prospective daughter in law and her parents for the first time.

It’s a film full of surprises.”

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pFiona Frendo & Lily Asquez Sales Assistants, Sakata Pearls “We both really like the film The Notebook, a romantic drama, set in a nursing home where an elderly patient reads a romantic story from a personal notebook to another resident. The story he tells is of a young couple who met in the 1940s and fell in love, but are forced to separate, eventually against the odds they marry. It becomes clear that the story is actually about them and he is reading to his wife, who is suffering from dementia. Occasionally she remembers that the story is about their life and recognises her husband, as the man reading to her. It is a beautiful story that will make you cry.”

qAshley Harrison Structural Engineer, Belilos Ltd

pSuyenne Jessop Secretary, Seruyas “Hair – it is a 1970s’ musical war comedy based in Vietnam and features a tribe of long haired hippies, living a free life. I remember my parents talking about the film. I have watched it a few times and it makes me laugh and cry every time.

“The Usual Suspects — a crime thriller about a group of criminals being held together overnight in a police cell. They start making plans for another job. You have to watch it because there is a real twist at the end…”

pPepe Cavilla Company Director “I would recommend One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. I first saw this film in the 1970s and have watched it many times again. It is a classic drama with elements of satire and comedy.

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Chief Minister Meets Our World Champion Dancers Following the success of the Gibraltar National Dance Organisation at the World Show Dance Championships held in Riesa, Germany in late November, the Chief Minister met with the World Champion dancers in February for a photo call and so that he could congratulate them in person.

National Team members Sarahanne McLaren and Isabella Gomez presented the Chief Minister with a signed photograph and a DVD of the occasion. They also showed the Chief Minister the trophies and gold medal that they won at the competition.

During the meeting, GNDO President Seamus Byrne, accompanied

by National Team Manager Paulette Finlayson, announced the exciting news that Gibraltar will once again host the European Show Dance Championships in September 2015.

Mr Picardo said that Gibraltar was extremely proud of the dancers and the whole of the national team and he urged them to keep Gibraltar at the forefront of European Show Dance. n

Back row: Eva, Debbie, Ann, Stephanie, Karen. Front row: Giovi, Sarah, Arnica, Myra, Alison, Annette, Lorraine

Ladies Dinner Raises Over a Grand A Ladies’ Dinner Night was held at the Mediterranean Rowing Club in aid of Cancer Research UK; Stick it to Sarcoma in memory of Joey Gabay. The event raised a grand total of £1,122.

The cheque was presented to Myra Zayas, Chairperson of CRUK Gibraltar Branch, in February by Annette Goodman organiser of the event representing the Mediterranean Rowing Club.

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Mrs Goodman thanked the MRC for their unconditional support, the Rock Crafters and everyone who attended the dinner.

Gifts for the raffle were kindly donated by the Rock Crafters. n

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awards

The Mayor of Gibraltar’s chain of office

14th March deadline

Do You Know Someone Who Deserves a Mayor’s Award?

As announced last year by His Worship the Mayor, Cdr AD Lima MBE Rd* RNR, the scope of the Mayor’s Award Scheme has been widened.

The Scheme, which until last year only recognised people who had saved a life or who had participated in any life-saving rescue operation or act of bravery, now encompasses persons or groups who have served Gibraltar in exceptional or voluntary service over a prolonged period of time.

His Worship, who is keen to encourage public participation in the Awards Scheme, invites people to submit recommendations in order to ensure that the Committee under the Mayor’s Chairmanship

His Worship, who is keen to encourage public participation in the Awards Scheme, invites people to submit recommendations

is able to select from the widest possible field.

When considering recommendations for a Mayor’s Award, due note is taken by the Committee of the provisions of the Gibraltar Medallion of distinction which is awarded by the Gibraltar Parliament and of awards granted by the Royal Humane Society. Any recommendation concerning outstanding gallantry or achievement which, in the opinion of the committee, could merit such Awards will be referred to the relevant body for their consideration.

Recommendations, in writing, should be submitted before the 14th March 2014 to: The Secretary, Mayor’s Awards Committee, Ministry of Culture, 310 Main Street, Gibraltar. n For further information please contact the PA to the Mayor on mobile 56883000 or via electronic mail addressed to pamayor@gibtelecom.net

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Getting Clammy in the Springtime...

One of the delights of living where we do is the abundance of good fresh seafood and as we move into Spring and the weather warms what better than a big plate of clams with some crusty bread to mop up the sauces?

Apart from being delicious, clams are high in Omega 3 fatty acids, low in calories, and very high in iron.

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Clams with Tomato Sauce

minutes.

Serves 4 1 tbs olive oil 50g spring onions, white part

only, chopped 50g green pepper, finely chopped 60g celery, finely chopped 2 tsp garlic, finely chopped 4 tbs white wine 400g chopped tomatoes 1 chilli, finely chopped 900g fresh clams, scrubbed Heat oil in a pan large enough to hold the clams, over medium heat.

Add the onions, green pepper, celery, chilli and garlic, and cook, stirring until tender, for about five

Stir in the chopped tomatoes, wine and clams. Turn the heat up to medium-high, cover the pot and cook for 5 to 8 minutes or until all of the clams have opened.

Remove from heat immediately.

Garnish with chopped fresh parsley or coriander to taste.

This easy to make dish is great served with fresh ground black pepper and crusty bread to mop up the juices.

If you want to make it a more substantial main meal serve with spaghetti or your favourite pasta (just stir in cooked pasta before serving so it soak up some of the juices). n

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Musselling In Mussels are so easy to cook and the variety of simple dishes using white wine or cider make them truly delicious. Experiment with your favourite flavours.

We have chosen this dish because it is one of our favourites. Use larger mussels for this recipe as the smaller ones can be tough when grilled.

Parmesan Mussels 100 ml white wine 1 large onion, very finely chopped 3 large garlic cloves, crushed 30 large mussels, scrubbed and beards removed 50g fresh wholemeal bread 30g parsley, chopped 30g Parmesan cheese, freshly grated ½ tbsp finely grated lemon zest pinch cayenne pepper 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil lemon wedges to serve Pour the wine into a large saucepan with a lid, add the onion and garlic, and bring to the boil over a high heat. Boil rapidly for 1 minute.

Add the mussels, cover the pan tightly and cook for 2–3 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally.

Uncover and give the mussels a good stir. As soon as they open remove the mussels from the pan and set them aside. It is important to discard any mussels that remain shut or have broken shells.

When the mussels have cooled enough to handle, remove the top shell. Place the mussels in a single layer in a shallow oven-proof dish.

Set aside.

Preheat the grill to high. Put the bread in a food processor or blender and process to fine crumbs. Add the parsley,

Parmesan, lemon zest, cayenne pepper and olive oil, and process until well blended.

Put a pile of the cheese and crumb mixture onto each mussel and press down. You can add a little roughly grated Parmesan to the top of each at this stage if you like them to be extra cheesy.

When you are ready to serve, put the dish under the grill and cook for 2–3 minutes until the topping is lightly browned. Serve with lemon wedges.

This is a great dish to serve with wine before a meal or as a starter.

If you don’t want to use wine in this dish you can replace it in the recipe with cider or fish stock — whatever you prefer. We also like rocket salad with ours.

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appetite

e to wher drink eat & the on k Roc

Café Solo

Modern Italian eatery set in lively Casemates square. Everything from chicory and crispy pancetta salad with walnuts, pears and blue cheese dressing, or king prawn, mozzarella and mango salad to pastas(eg: linguine with serrano ham, king prawns and rocket; smoked salmon and crayfish ravioli with saffron and spinach cream) to salads (eg: Vesuvio spicy beef, cherry tomatoes, roasted peppers and red onions; and Romana

Cafe Rojo

restaurants

Sleek modern comfort in this relaxing little restaurant. Brunch (10am-12pm) includes ciabatta, granary, foccacia sandwiches with fillings such as pear and blue cheese, smoked bacon and brie, cheese and honey roast ham, delicious desserts. Lunch 12-3pm, dinner 7-10pm; dishes such as Marinated Tuna Steak & Sesame Crust; Roasted Lamb Shoulder; pastas or risottos such as Roast Pumpkin, Mushroom, & Spinach Curry, Langoustine, Lime & Coconut; Pear, Walnut & Blue Cheese; and Creamy Mixed Seafood; and salads such as Warm Goats’ Cheese, Fresh Spinach & Chargrilled Aubergine; and Roast Duck, Chorizo & Pancetta Salad.

Open: Tues - Fri 10am- late, Saturday lunch 12-3pm, afternoon drinks & desserts, dinner 7-10pm. Closed Sundays & Mondays.

Nunos Italian

Nunos Italian Restaurant, overlooking the Mediterranean, is popular with hotel guests, tourists and local residents. This 2 rosette rated, AA restaurant is renowned for its eclectic interior, intimate atmosphere and fine cuisine. Savour a wide selection of freshly prepared Italian delicacies, including bread, pasta, meat and fish, followed by delicious desserts. In the summer months, the hotel offers alfresco dining for private parties in the Garden Grill. Sitting nestled in the colonial garden you can enjoy a mouth-watering menu of charcoal-grilled meats and freshly prepared salads in candlelit surroundings.

Open: Mon-Sun 1-3pm lunch, 7–11pm dinner

Cafe Rojo 54 Irish Town. Tel: 200 51738

Nunos Italian Restaurant and Terrace Caleta Hotel, Catalan Bay Tel: 200 76501 Email: reservations@caletahotel.gi

Casa Pepe

The Waterfront

A delightful terrace, bar, restaurant on the prestigious Queensway Quay Marina. Wonderful location for business meetings, weddings, anniversaries and other special occasions. Specialising in fresh fish caught locally with daily specials including seabass, dorada, sole, and bream, plus a very comprehensive a la carte menu. Also available are tapas and raciones (double size tapas) to share (or not!) prior to a main course. Mixed paellas also available, as well as fish cooked in rock salt, whole suckling pig and baby lamb to order.

Open: Tues-Sat lunch & evening, Sunday lunch only, closed Mondays.

Right on the quayside at Queensway Quay Marina, this restaurant offers everything from coffee through to 3-course meals with champagne! A bar snack menu is available all day from 10.15am; the a la carte menu from midday to 10.30pm, featuring daily specials. The barbecue grill from 7pm offers sumptuous steaks aged in-house, and fab fish including dorada and sea bass. A delicious array of desserts/ice creams. Extensive terraces provide ideal location for summer dining and drinks with stunning sunsets. Caters for large parties - weddings, holy communions, birthdays etc. Est. over 16 years.

Open: 7 days a week 9am-late

Casa Pepe, 18 Queensway Quay Marina, Tel/Fax: 200 46967 Email: casa.pepe@gmail.com.

Visit: www.gibtour.com/casapepe.

The Waterfront Queensway Quay Marina. Tel: 200 45666 Visit: www.gibwaterfront.com

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chorizo, black pudding, egg and pancetta) and pizzas (eg: Quatto Stagioni topped with mozzarella, ham, chicken, pepperoni and mushroom) and specialities such as salmon fishcakes, beef medallions and duck. Daily specials on blackboard. No smoking.

Café Solo Grand Casemates Square. Tel: 200 44449

Solo Bar & Grill

Solo Bar and Grill is a stylish and modern eatery — perfect for business functions or lunches — and part of the popular Cafe Solo stable. Serving everything from Goats’ Cheese Salad, Mediterranean Pâté and Cajun Langoustines to Beer Battered John Dory, or Harissa Chicken, and Chargrilled Sirloin Steak. This is a delightful venue in Europort with a cosy mezzanine level and terrace seating. Well worth a visit, or two! Available for private functions and corporate events — call 200 62828 to book your function or event.

Open: 12-8pm.

Solo Bar & Grill Eurotowers Tel: 200 62828

Get Listed!

Do you own a restaurant, café, or bar in Gibraltar?

Get your business listed here

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Do you own a restaurant, café, or bar in Gibraltar?

Get your business listed here

CALL 200 77748 for details Amin’s Office Sit down, informal and friendly bar with informal eating. Amin is well known in Gibraltar for his Moroccan, Spanish and international cuisine. Open early for breakfast at 7am right through the day. Try the Moroccan soups, couscous, lamb tagines and kebabs. Terrace, just off Main Street (turn left at Trafalgar Pharmacy coming from Casemates).

Open: 7am to midnight.

Amin's The Office 30 Parliament Lane. Tel: 200 40932

Buddies Pasta Casa Italian specials in pleasant ambience. Large selection of starters from garlic bread to calamari. Main courses include spinach caneloni, spaghetti alla carbonara, fusilli al salmone, and peppered steak to name a few. Tasty desserts and variety of wines.

Outside seating too.

Open: Monday - Thursday 11am - 5pm, Friday 11am-3pm and 7pm-11pm, Sat 11am-4.30pm Buddies Pasta Casa 15 Cannon Lane. Tel: 200 40627

Get Stuffed Very popular takeaway, sandwich bar and hot food.

Serving all fresh and homemade sandwiches, salads, soups, pasta, pies, cup cakes, plus hot/cold drinks and smoothies and a different special every day. Outside catering for corporate parties.

Open: 8am - 4pm Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm Sat. Get Stuffed Marina Bay. Tel: 200 42006

Just Desserts B r i g h t a n d a i r y, recently redecorated cafe on the first floor of the ICC. All homemade food including daily specials, vegetarian options, desserts and small cakes. Eat in or takeaway. Try their daily roast with everything on, or their all-day breakfast. Pensioner’s lunch - 2 course meal for £5.25. Friendly, cheerful and fully licensed.

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directory Mumbai Curry House

Indian cuisine, eat-in/take-away, from snacks (samosas, bhajias, pakoras) to lamb, chicken and fish dishes such as korma, tikka masala, do piaza. Large vegetarian selection. Halal food. Outside catering for parties/meetings. Sunday Mumbai favourites such as Dosa & Choley Bhature.

Open: 7 days a week 11am - 3pm, 6pm -late.

Mumbai Curry House Unit 1.0.02 Ground Floor, Block 1 Eurotowers Tel: 200 73711 Home delivery: 200 50022/33

Oasis Eatery

Located in Governor’s Parade, just across from the Elliot Hotel, and offers hot/cold drinks plus a delicious homemade selection of baked items such as cakes and quiches, also sandwiches and wraps, bagels and cupcakes. Vegan/vegetarian items. Oasis is on Facebook and Twitter and you can pre-order online which is handy for a quick lunch.

Special orders taken for a range of bakery goods.

Fully licensed for beers and wine. Terrace seating.

Open: 8am to 3pm Oasis Eatery Govenor’s Parade Tel: 200 65544 www.oasiseatery.com

Pick a Bite

Morning coffee and daily lunch specials, one of largest selections of traditional home made food, to eat in or takeaway. All the old favourites — spinach pie, croquettes, quiche, spanish omelette, shepherd’s pie and more. Delicious sandwiches, baguettes, ciabatta melts and wraps, with a variety of fillings. Salads, snacks and soups. Cakes and muffins for those with a sweet tooth. Friendly, cheerful and very reasonal prices. Terrace seating.

Open: Monday to Friday 8am - 3pm.

Pick A Bite 10 Chatham Counterguard Tel: 200 64211

Picadilly Gardens Relaxed bar restaurant located near to the Queen’s Hotel and Cable car, it has a cosy garden terrace, which is great for drinks, tapas and food al fresco.

English breakfast, tapas, hamburgers, fresh fish, paella by pre-order, prawns, squid, clams and a variety of meat dishes. Eat in or takeaway. Open: 6:30am till late.

Piccadilly Gardens Rosia Road, Tel: 20075758

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Sacarello Coffee Co Converted coffee warehouse, great coffee, homemade cakes/ afternoon tea, plus menu and excellent salad bar with quiche selection, specials of the day and dishes such as lasagne, steak and mushroom Guinness pie, hot chicken salad, toasties, club sandwich and baked potatoes. Art exhibitions. Available for parties and functions in the evenings.

Open: 9am-7.30pm Mon-Fri. 9am-3pm Sat Sacarello Coffee Co. 57 Irish Town. Tel: 200 70625

Raj’s Curry House Raj’s tasty Indian cuisine is now available to eat in or take away, from his new fully refurbished premises in Queensway Quay next to the Waterfront. Serving authentic dishes such as Creamy Butter Chicken, Bhuna King Prawn or Chana Masala, and so much more. There is something available to suit all tastes. Pop in or telephone for food orders or table reservations.

Open: food served 7 days 11am- 3pm, 6pm-late Raj’s Curry House Queensway Quay. Tel: 200 46993

Solo Express

Located next to Pizza Hut in Casemates and in Eurotowers, serves a variety of salads/baguettes (white, brown, ciabatta) filled with a deli selection such as roast chicken; smoked salmon & mascapone; ham, cheese and coleslaw; or humous, avocado & roast red pepper. Salads fresh and tasty (Greek, Waldorf, cous cous, tuna pasta etc), great value. Jackets, quiches, coffee plus cakes (flapjacks, muffins) available all day. Eat-in area. Soups in winter.

Solo Express Grnd Flr, ICC, Casemates & Eurotowers

The Tasty Bite

informal food

Get Listed!

Tasty Bite has one of the biggest take-away menus around with home cooked meats, filled baguettes, burgers, chicken and everything else you can think of! Try the quiches, tortillas and jackets spuds with all kinds of fillings.

This little place gets busy with those popping out from the offices for lunch so get there early.

Open: Monday - Saturday.

The Tasty Bite 59a Irish Town. Tel: 200 78220 Fax: 200 74321

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directory Verdi Verdi All day coffee plus all homemade and delicious vegetarian and vegan dishes, fresh baked bread and desserts.

A selection of bagels (try the smoked salmon and cream cheese) and baguettes to eat in or take away. Try the light homemade pizzas, or the falafels and humous. Daily special soups are fabulous and filling. Ask for Idan's hot homemade chilli relish — sweet and scrummy.

Open: Mon/Thurs: 7.30-6, Fri 7.30-5, Sun 10-3.

Verdi Verdi ICC, Casemates Tel: 200 60733

Get Listed!

Do you own a restaurant, café, or bar in Gibraltar?

Get your business listed here

CALL 200 77748 for details All’s Well

Traditional pub in fashionable Casemates area. Named for the 18th century practise of locking gates to the city at night when the guard called ‘All’s Well’. All’s Well serves Bass beers, wine and spirits plus pub fare. English breakfast all day, hot meals such as pork in mushroom sauce, sausage & mash, cod & chips and steak & ale pie plus a range of salads and jacket potatoes. Large terrace.

Karaoke Mondays and Wednesdays until late. Free tapas on a Friday 7pm.

All’s Well Casemates Square. Tel: 200 72987

bars & pubs

Bridge Bar & Grill

Located on the water’s edge, Ocean Village, just across the bridge from O’Reilly’s.

This bar & grill is a fusion of an American themed menu with Tarifa chill out style. Open for breakfast from 9am serving healthy options, freshly squeezed orange juice and Italian Lavazza coffee. Try the spicy Caribbean rum ribs, southern fried chicken bucket, the popular Texas burger or a selection of tasty salads and homemade desserts. London Pride, San Miguel & Carling beer on draught, live sports.

Bridge Bar & Grill Ocean Village Tel: 200 66446

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Cannon Bar

Jane is still there and still packed out with tourists and regulars!

Word has it that she nearly managed to escape, but wasn’t allowed to. The famous fish and chips, the odd French speciality, there’s always something happening in the Cannon! Located between Marks & Spencer and the Cathedral just off Main Street.

Cannon Bar

Gibraltar Arms On Main Street opposite the cathedral, enjoy a meal, coffee or a cool beer on the terrace and watch the world go by!

Bar decorated with rare military plaques from regiments and navy ships visiting Gibraltar. Full breakfast menu served from 7am, draught beers on tap include Old Speckled Hen bitter, Murphys Irish stout, Heineken lager and Strongbow cider.

Gibraltar Arms 184 Main Street. Tel: 200 72133

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The Lounge Stylish lounge and gastro bar on the quayside at Queensway Quay with very reasonable prices and food from 10am until late. Popular quiz on Sundays (from 7.30pm) and a relaxed friendly atmosphere... always plenty of people / yachties to chat to. Events (matches etc) covered on large TV. Great place to chill out. Pool table.

Open: 10am Mon - Sat until late and from 12pm on Sun (get there early for a seat for the quiz).

The Lounge Queensway Quay Marina Tel: 200 61118

O’Reilly’s

Traditional Irish bar with full HD sports coverage and Irish breakfast from 7am (Sunday from 9am). Guinness on draught. Food includes salads, jackets, beef & Guinness pie, Molly’s mussels, drunken swine, Boxty dishes (potato pancake wrapped around delicioius fillings), sandwiches, rolls, Kildare chicken and much much more. And just like in Ireland there’s no smoking inside, so a great atmosphere for all.

O’Reilly’s Ocean Village. Tel: 200 67888

Jury’s Café-Wine Bar

Star Bar

Jury’s Café & Wine Bar 275 Main Street. Tel: 200 67898

Star Bar Parliament Lane. Tel: 200 75924 Visit: www.starbargibraltar.com

Next to the Law Courts, with a terrace seating area, Jury’s has a selection of Ciabattas, paninis, baguettes and wraps, plus popular sharing dishes, such as Your Honour’s platter. Jacket potatoes, main courses, pasta and some innocent salads too.

For those with a sweet tooth, there are tantalising homemade desserts, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, as well as Lavazza coffees and frappes.

Open: 7am-midnight Mon-Sat, 9am-midnight Sun.

Lord Nelson

Bar/brasserie in Casemates.

Done out like Nelson’s ship.

Starters & snacks include fresh mussels, blue cheese and rocket bruschetta, potato skins, spicy chicken wings and calamares. Main courses from chilli con carne and chicken & mushroom pie, to crispy duck burrito and fish & chips.

Jackets, burgers and kid’s menu. Live music on stage nightly. Spacious terrace.

Open: 10am till very late.

Lord Nelson Bar Brasserie 10 Casemates Tel: 200 50009 Visit: www.lordnelson.gi

Gibraltar’s oldest bar, just off Main St. Small cosy and famous for its full English breakfast from 7am (9am on Sunday). A full menu including fish & chips, until 10pm. The home of Star Coffee, draught beers include Heineken, Old Speckled Hen, Murphys and Strongbow cider. Managed by Hunter Twins from Stafford, England, also home to Med Golf & Tottenham Hotspur supporters club.

The Three Owls

The Three Owls is a traditional bar serving best of English beers.

Three separate bars/floors: ground floor — big screen TV, pool table, poker machines, bar — open from 10.30am daily. First floor ‘Hoots’ bar, two match pool tables, poker machines, dartboard, bar, open from 5pm daily. Second Floor the ‘Nest’ — American pool table, poker machine, card table, bar — open from 7pm daily and also at weekends for the Rugby Union matches. If you are looking for a sociable game of pool or darts this is the place to be.

The Three Owls Irish Town. Tel: 200 77446

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Traditional Pub Serving Traditional Pub Fare, Bass Beers, Wines & Spirits

Visit us and step back in history

Casemates Square Tel: 200 72987

Full menu served inside or on our terrace including British Fish & Chips, Jackets, Salads, Burritos, Homemade Pizzas, our special Fresh Local Mussels and much more.

Visit us and buy yourself a souvenir, T-shirts, beer glasses, lighters etc Live music every evening, join our Jam Sessions on Wednesday or Sunday.

GLMS Music Venue of the Year.

Official Home to Gibraltar Rugby Club Free WiFi

10 Casemates www.lordnelson.gi Tel: 200 50009

• Pizza • Pasta • Salads • Fresh Juices • Cappuccino • Ice Creams

DAILY SPECIALS Grand Casemates Sq Tel: 20044449 take-away or reserve a table

Tel: 200 46993 7 days 11am - 3pm, 6pm - late

Queensway Quay (next to Waterfront) Queensway Quay Marina, Tel: 200 61118

184 Main Street Tel: 200 72133 open: from 8am (10am on Sun)

restaurant &bar guide

TASTY INDIAN CUISINE

Get Stuffed!

Marina Bay Tel: 200 42006 Take-Away, Sandwiches & Hot Food Different Special Every Day salads, soups, pastas, pies, cupcakes, all home made Open 8am-4pm Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm Sat

Indian Cuisine to Eat In or Take Away

Unit 1.0.02 Grnd Flr, Block 1 Eurotowers Tel: 200 73711

Casa Pepe Open: Mon-Sat 11am-late 18 Queensway Quay Marina Tel/Fax: 200 46967

BUDDIES pasta casa

Come and enjoy real Italian meals in Gibraltar’s leading pasta house 15 Cannon Lane Tel: 200 40627 for reservations

Award winning breakfasts from 7.30am Great meals & snacks all day Evening Steak House menu Med Golf Clubhouse Tottenham Hotspur HQ Parliament Lane Tel: 200 75924

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Hints of Spring are appearing. The sun occasionally gets his hat on and decides to come out today. In just a couple of months I will be complaining about the heat. But this time of year is generally delightful in this part of the world. One should enjoy it to the full. This includes, of course, having a glass of wine in the hand.

To that end, I have been on a search for a decent claret (or equivalent) at a decent price. I am becoming set in my ways as I get older. For me, claret has always been the wine of choice, despite the wonderful offerings from outside Bordeaux (and the rest of France) that have appeared in the last 20 or so years.

We start with Morrison’s own label. They now have two — a standard at £3.50 and a ‘signature’ at £4.50. The standard one announces on the label that it is ‘brilliant with bangers’. This statement does not fill one with confidence as to the contents. The contents are recognisably claret, but a little thin. I enjoyed it with roast chicken, rather than bangers, and it did not do a great deal for the chicken — although the left over part of the bottle was added to the left over part of the chicken to make a very good casserole the following day. So it is acceptable — and one cannot expect much more at the price.

The signature is supposedly ‘splendid with roasts’. I got it the wrong way round, having had the roast previously, so I drank it with a cottage pie. At £1 more

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wine There is nothing frilly about it, it holds up well and it slips down easily.

Again, it is a safe stand-by for every day than the standard it is very good value. It doesn’t knock you down with its hints of blackberry etc but it is solid, reasonably deep and can be quaffed without being really noticed. It is certainly an improvement on the standard one and can safely be put by for everyday drinking. Having gone downhill in recent years with their own label claret, this one at least restores some of Morrison’s reputation.

Ever reliable, Marks and Spencer has an own label claret which is also at £4.50. This is — well — Marks and Spencer. It tastes just as you would expect it to. If it were (forgive me) a ladies’ bra, it would be a M & S one. There is nothing frilly about it, it holds up well and it slips down easily.

It is a little thinner than Morrison’s signature. This may be an advantage for some in that it is even less noticeable when being sipped. Again, it is a safe stand-by for every day.

Tony, at My Wines, reminded me that claret is no more than a blend of Cabernet and Merlot.

Therefore, any blend of those grapes, even if not from Bordeaux itself, can possibly pass muster.

Despite the fact that he seems to have gone upmarket, he pointed me in the direction of ‘Oustric’ a blend from Bernard Magrez from further south. At £5.75 it seems to be about the cheapest in his shop — and you get what you pay for.

There is nothing wrong with it but, I fear, nothing particularly right with it either. On the other hand, the same maker has a ‘Hermitage’ with Tony at £16.50. This is terrific stuff and can compete with any grandly named chateau, at under half the price.

I started by being on a search for a decent claret at a decent price, and stayed at the cheaper end until now. But, even if you stick to the supermarket own labels for most of the time, this one is worth a splash every now and then. It has a smooth oomph which really makes it worthwhile.

Once one leaves the cheaper end of the market, claret balloons in price. Anglo Hispano’s (fairly small) selection starts at £30 and goes into the upper atmosphere.

However, on enquiry into what was on offer from elsewhere, they came up with some new offerings from Chile and Australia. These were premiered at a wine tasting last month and, frankly, did not impress at the time. A Chilean Cabernet/Merlot called ‘Patriots’ is £9.99; a ‘Ribshack’ is £8.99.

(Where they get these names from I did not enquire.) A further try revealed no great improvement.

The only incentive is that there is a discount from 10% to 35% depending on the number of bottles bought. Worth a taste to see if you like it (the Ribshack is better than the Patriots in my view) and to take advantage of the discount.

Also at the tasting was a ‘Rustler’ Pinotage. This is rather a long way from claret — indeed it is a Burgundy grape — but at least it is a red at the lower end of the price range. I missed it originally but tried it later. It is thinnish but rich with a subtle aftertaste which grows on you with every sip. At £8.99, with the same discounts as for the Chilean wines, this is worth every penny: 12 bottles will set you back £6 or so each with the discount.

So the weekly budget on wine and food for March can be set.

Roast beef on Sunday with the Hermitage, cottage pie (from the left over beef) on Monday with M&S claret; a chicken casserole on Tuesday with a Pinotage; pasta and sauce on Wednesday with Morrison’s signature; Thursday a salad with Pinotage (again — you did get 12 bottles), Friday a fish pie with M&S again (this red does go perfectly well with fish — forget all that nonsense about red with meat and white with fish) and Saturday whatever takes your fancy with yet another Pinotage. The total cost is £48.50 on wine and about £50 on the food for two people. It is of course possible to live more cheaply — but not so enjoyably.

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As we head into springtime this month (Thursday, 20th March is the first day of Spring) there are lots of exciting things afoot.

Following our national rugby team’s win over Israel at the Victoria Stadium in mid-February we discovered who our football team will face in the qualifying rounds in the Euro 2016 football championships. Gibraltar was drawn against giants Germany, and Scotland, Poland, the Republic of Ireland and Georgia in Group D. Gibraltar’s first match is at home (in Portugal) on 7th September against Poland the day after the Gibraltar Music Festival takes place on 6th September — so that is certainly going to be a weekend filled with thrills and excitement. What better week to play than National Week for the Gibraltar Team.

There is drama of another kind in March with the Gibraltar Drama Festival which sees some great plays and players competing for the prize from 17th to 22nd March. The Gala night on 22nd promises to be a fabulous event with the adjudicator selecting a balance of plays to present on the night.

It is World Book Day on 6th March for those who prefer to curl up with a good read. This year local authors will have a stand and will be promoting their own book too.

Birthdays this month include Annette of Cafe Rojo on 6th March, followed by Christian Santos of Santos Productions on 9th. Writer of our banking column, Paul Wharton celebrates on 12th March, a few days before Vikram of Essardas gets another year older on 15th. Rebecca

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Faller will be partying on 20th with the lovely Julie of Cafe Solo having a tipple or two on 23rd. David Orfila and Fabian Vinet share their special day on 27th March, and Robert Vasquez rounds up the month with a celebration on 30th. Many happy returns to them all and to anyone else who is celebrating a special event in March.

Just as we were going to press the Gibraltar Philharmonic Society announced The European Baroque Players concert at the Holy Trinity Cathedral on Tuesday 11th March at 8pm. The concert is sponsored by Gibraltar Asset Management Limited and the orchestra has made a special programme for Gibraltar with soloists Álvaro Prieto Pérez, Bassoon and Vicent Morelló Broseta, flute. The repertoire will include works by one of the most powerful and distinguished composers of the whole Baroque era. Tickets priced £20 are available from Sacarello’s coffee shop on Irish Town and The Silver Shop at 222 Main Street or directly from the Society by telephone 200 72134. A limited number of tickets at £10 are made available to Senior Citizens and students via the John Macintosh Hall at 308 Main Street. For further information telephone or visit www.philharmonic.gi.

Don’t forget to turn off your lights on 29th March at 8.30pm for one hour to support Earth Hour.

Let’s see Gibraltar in darkness and look at the stars.

Well that’s it for this month. We are looking forward to the warmer spring weather and all that the summer has to offer here. In the meantime, we’ll see you on Main Street.

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Clubs & Activities Arts & Crafts Cross Stitch Club: John Mackintosh Hall, 1st Floor, Mon 6-8pm, fee £1.

Gibraltar Arts & Crafts Association: Offers a variety of classes & workshops for children and adults Mon - Fri 3.30-7pm, Sat 2-3pm.

For more info call Tel: 20073865.

Knit and Natter Group: Tues from 3.305pm & 5-6pm, at Arts & Crafts Shop, Casemates balcony. Free to join and refreshments provided. Tel: 20073865 for more information.

The Arts Centre: Prince Edward’s Rd. Art classes for children (Mon 5-6pm, Tues 5-6.30pm, Thurs 5-7pm), adults (Mon - Tues 6.30pm-8pm, Wed 6.30pm-8.30pm, life painting Wed 7pm-9pm). Tel: 200 79788.

The Fine Arts Association Gallery: At Casemates. Open 10am-2pm, 3-6pm Mon - Fri, Sat 11am - 1pm.

The Gibraltar Decorative and Fine Arts Society: Affiliated to UK NADFAS meets third Wed of month at 6.30pm at Eliott Hotel - lecturers & experts from the UK talk on Art etc. Contact: Chairman Claus Olesen 200 02024 email: claus.olesen@sghambros.com.

Membership Ian leBreton 200 76173 email: ilebreton@SovereignGroup.com Board Games Calpe Chess Club & Junior Club: meets in Studio 1, John Mackintosh Hall 5-7pm (junior chess) 8-11pm (Calpe Chess) on Tues. Entrance Free.

The Gibraltar Scrabble Club: meets at the Rock Hotel on Mon at 3pm. Tel: Vin at 20073660 or Roy at 20075995. All welcome.

The Subbuteo Club: Meets in Charles Hunt Room, John Mackintosh Hall.

Dance Adult Dance Classes: Wed evenings at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre from 7-8.30pm.

Contact Dilip on 200 78714.

Art in Movement: Classes in children Street Dance, Hip Hop, Contemporary, Pilates, Capoeira, Judo & Ju-jitsu. At Wellington Front from 4pm onwards. Tel: 54005785 or 54000027 or visit www.artinmovement.net Ballet, Modern Theatre, Jazz, Contemporary & Hip Hop: classes held weekly at Danza Academy. Training from 2.5 years to Adult Advanced. 68/2 Prince Edward’s Rd Tel: 54027111.

DSA Old & Modern Sequence Dancing: sessions at Central Hall Fri 8.30pm, beginners 8pm. Tel: 200 78901 or email tony@gibraltar.gi Everybody welcome.

Modern & Latin American Sequence Dancing: Mon at Catholic Community Centre 8pm. Tel. Andrew 20078901.

Modern, Contemporary, Lyrical, Flexibility, Hip Hop & Dance Theatre: classes weekly at Urban Dance Studio, 2 Jumpers Bastion.

Tel: Yalta 54012212 or Jolene 54015125.

Rockkickers Linedance Club: Governor’s Meadow First School Hall on Mon from 6pm to 8pm. Tel: 20076819 / 5697900 or visit www.rockkickers.com Salsa Gibraltar Salsa: classes on Tues at Laguna Social Club, Laguna Estate.

Beginners 7-8.30pm. Intermediates 8.30-10pm. Tel: Mike 54472000 or info@ salsagibraltar.com www.salsagibraltar.com Zumba Classes at Urban Dance: Jumpers Bastion, with certified instructor Tyron Walker. Mon & Wed 8-9pm. Tel: 20063959 or 54012212 or visit www.urbandance.org History & Heritage The Gibraltar Heritage Trust: Main Guard, 13 John Mackintosh Square. Tel: 200 42844.

The Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association: Dedicated to preservation of Rock’s transport/motoring heritage. Assists members in restoration / maintenance of classic vehicles. New members welcome.

Tel: 200 44643.

Garrison Library Tours: at 11am on Fri, duration 1h 50mins. Tel: 20077418.

History Alive: Historical re-enactment parade. Main Street up to Casemates Square every Sat at 12noon.

Music Gibraltar National Choir and Gibraltar Junior National Choir: rehearses at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Tel: 54831000.

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Outdoor Activities The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award: exciting self-development programme for young people worldwide equipping them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and the world. Contact Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Montagu Bastion, Line Wall Road. Tel: 200 59818.

Quizzes The Lounge: Friendly quiz on Sun from 8pm right on quayside at Queensway Quay.

The Cannon Bar: Quiz nights on Tues at 8.30pm. Tel: 20077288.

Social Clubs Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes: (Gibraltar Province) meets RAOB Club, Jumpers Bastion on these days: Provincial Grand Lodge, 1st Mon/month, 8pm.

Executive Meeting, last Mon/month 7pm.

Knights Chapter, 2nd Mon/month 7.30pm.

Examining Council, 3rd Mon/month 7pm.

William Tilley 2371, Thurs 8pm. Buena Vista 9975, Wed (fortnightly) 7pm. Por Favor 9444, Wed (fortnightly) 7pm. Farewell 10001, Tues 8.30pm. Goldacre 10475 (social) last Fri/ month 8pm.

Special Interest Clubs & Societies Creative Writers Group: meet Tues at Eliott Hotel bar at 8pm, aimed at learning to write fiction/non-fiction, for pleasure or publication. Tel: Carla 54006696.

Gibraltar Book Club: For info Tel: Parissa 54022808.

Gibraltar Horticultural Society: meets 1st Thurs of month 6pm, J.M. Hall. Spring Flower Show, slide shows, flower arrangement demos, outings to garden centres, annual Alameda Gardens tour. All welcome.

Gibraltar Philosophical Society: devoted to intellectually stimulating debate. Frequent lectures and seminars on a range of topics. Tel: 54008426 (after 6pm) or email: gibphilosophy@live.co.uk Gibraltar Photographic Society: meets on Mon at 7.30pm, Wellington Front. Basic courses, competitions etc.

Harley Davidson Owners’ Club: www.hdcgib.com Lions Club of Gibraltar: meets 4th Wed of the month at 50 Line Wall Road. www. lionsclubofgibraltar.com St John’s Ambulance: Adult Volunteers Training Sessions from 8-10pm on Tues. Tel: 20077390 or email training@stjohn.gi The Royal British Legion: For info / membership contact the Branch Secretary 20074604 or write to PO Box 332, Gibraltar.

UN Association of Gibraltar: PO Box 599, 22a Main Street. Tel: 200 52108.

Sports Supporters Clubs Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Club: meet at Star Bar, Parliament Lane, when Spurs games are televised - call prior to matches to check game is televised. Great food for a lunch if KO is early or an early supper if the game is later. Tel: 56280000.

Gibraltar Arsenal Supporters Club: meets match days upstairs at Time Out Café, Eurotowers. Gooners of all ages welcome. For info/news visit www.

GibGooners.com Tel: 54010681 (Bill) or 54164000 (John).

Gibraltar Hammers: meet on match days at the Victoria Stadium Bar, Bayside Road. All league games are shown live. All West Ham supporters and their families are welcome.

For details visit www.gibraltarhammers.com or gibraltarhammers@hotmail.com Sports & Fitness Artistic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Artistic Gymnastics Association. Tel: Angela 200 70611 or Sally 200 74661.

Athletics: Gibraltar Amateur Athletics Association holds competitions through year for juniors, adults and veterans. Two main clubs (Calpeans 200 71807, Lourdians 200 75180) training sessions at Victoria Stadium.

Badminton: Recreational badminton

weekdays at Victoria Stadium (Tel: 200 78409 for allocations). Gibraltar Badminton Association (affiliated to BWF& BE) junior club/tournaments, senior leagues/ recreational. www.badmintongibraltar.com Ballet Barre Fitness: Adults on Wed 10am & Fri 6pm at The Arts Centre. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com Basketball: Gibraltar Amateur Basketball Association (affiliated FIBA) leagues/ training for minis, passarelle, cadets, seniors and adults at a variety of levels. Tel: John 200 77253, Randy 200 40727.

Boxing: Gibraltar Amateur Boxing Association (member IABA) gym on Rosia Rd. Over 13s welcome. Tuition with expro boxer Ernest Victory, Tel: 56382000, 20042788.

Cheerleading: Gibraltar Cheerleading Association, girls/boys all ages.

Chearleading and street cheer/hip hop at Victoria Stadium. Recreational / competitive levels. Tel: 58008338.

Canoeing: Gibraltar Canoeing Association.

Tel: Nigel 200 52917 or Arturo 54025033.

Cricket: Gibraltar Cricket, National Governing Body & Associate Member of ICC. Governs International & Domestic Men’s, Women’s, Boys’ & Girls’ cricketleague & cup competitions and in-school coaching. www.gibraltarcricket.com, email: info@gibcricket.com, Twitter: @Gibraltar_ Crick Cycling: Gibraltar Cycling Association various cycling tours. Tel: Uriel 200 79359.

Darts: Gibraltar Darts Association (full member of WDF & affiliate of BDO) We cater for men, ladies & youth who take part in leagues, competitions and a youth academy for development of the sport. Tel: 54027171, / 54014547 / 54021672/ 54022622 or email: info@gibraltardarts.com Football: Gibraltar Football Association - leagues/competitions for all ages OctoberMay. Futsal in summer, Victoria Stadium.

Tel: 20042941 www.gibraltarfa.com Gaelic Football Club (Irish sport): Males any age welcome. Get fit, play sport, meet new friends, travel around Spain/Europe and play an exciting and competitive sport.

Training every Wed on the MOD pitch on Devil’s Tower Road at 7pm. Andalucia League with Seville and Marbella to play matches home and away monthly. Visit www.gibraltargaels.com or email: secretary. gibraltar.europe@gaa.ie Hockey: Gibraltar Hockey Association (members FIH & EHF) high standard competitions/training for adults/juniors. Tel: Eric 200 74156 Peter 200 72730.

Iaido: Gibraltar - teaches the Japanese sword (Katana), classes every week. Visit www.iaidogibraltar.com Iwa Dojo, Kendo & Jujitsu: Classes every week, for kids/adults. Tel: 54529000 www. iwadojo.com or dbocarisa@iwadojo.com Judo and Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Budokai Judo Association UKMAF recognised instructors for all ages and levels at Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. Tel: Charlie 20043319.

Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Ju-jitsu Academy training and grading for juniors/seniors held during evening at 4 North Jumpers Bastion. Tel: 54011007.

Karate-do Shotokai: Gibraltar Karate-do Shotokai Association - Karate training for junior & seniors at Clubhouse, 41H Town Range. Tel: 57479000.

Karate: Shotokan karate midday Mon beginners, other students 8.30pm. Thurs 8.30pm. In town at temporary dojo or privately by arrangement. Contact Frankie 54038127 or email: info@fhmedia.co.uk.

Motorboat Racing: Gibraltar Motorboat Racing Association Tel: Wayne 200 75211.

Netball: Gibraltar Netball Association (affiliated FENA & IFNA) competitions through year, senior / junior leagues. Tel: 20041874.

Petanque: Gibraltar Petanque Association.

New members welcome. Tel: 54002652.

Pilates: Intermediate Pilates: Tues & Fri 9.30am, beginners Pilates: Fri 10.50am at the Shotokai Centre. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com Rhythmic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Rhythmic Gymnastics Association runs sessions for 4 years of age and upwards, weekday

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Rugby: Gibraltar Rugby Football Union training for Colts (14+), seniors and veterans. Play in Andalusia 1st Division. Tel: 200 72185.

Sailing: Gibraltar Yachting Association junior/senior competitive programme (April Oct) Tel: RGYC 200 48847.

Shooting: Gibraltar Shooting Federation.

Rifle, Europa Point Range (Stephanie 54020760); Clay pigeon, East Side (Harry 200 74354); Pistol, near Royal Naval Hospital (Louis 54095000).

Snooker: Members of European Billiards & Snooker Association - facilities at Jumpers Bastion with 3 tables. Professional coaching for juniors/seniors. Organised leagues/tournaments and participation in international competitions. Tel: 56262000 / 54000068, or info@gibraltarsnooker.com Squash: Gibraltar Squash Association, Squash Centre, South Pavilion Road (members WSF & ESF). Adult/junior tournaments/coaching. Tel: 200 44922.

Sub-Aqua: Gibraltar Sub-Aqua Association taster dives for over 14s, tuition from local clubs. Voluntary sports clubs: Noah’s Dive Club and 888s Dive Club. Tel: 54991000.

Commercial sports diving schools available.

Swimming: Gibraltar Amateur Swimming Association (member FINA & LEN) opens its pool for leisure swimming. Junior lessons, squad for committed swimmers, water polo. Tel: Rebecca 200 72869. Pool open Mon&Thurs: 7–10am, 12.30–4pm. Tue, Wed, Fri: 7–10am, 12:30–5pm. Sat: 3–5pm.

Sun: Closed. Mon to Fri from 5-6pm groups training. 6-7.30 squad training. Mon, Wed, Fri 7.30-8.30 swimming joggers, Tues & Thurs 7:30-8:30 junior Water polo. Mon, Tues & Thurs 8:30-10pm Adult water polo.

Table Tennis: Gibraltar Table Tennis Association training/playing sessions, Victoria Stadium, Tues 6-10pm and Thurs 8-11pm with coaching and league competition. Tel: 56070000 or 20060720.

Taekwondo: Gibraltar Taekwondo Association classes/gradings Tel: Mari 20044142. www.gibraltartaekwondo.org Tai Chi: Tai Chi for children and adults.

Sat 9am-1pm at the Yoga Centre, 33 Town Range or Mon-Thur 6.30-8pm at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre. Tel: Dilip 200 78714.

Tennis: Gibraltar Tennis Association, Sandpits Tennis Club. Junior development programme. Courses for adults, leagues and competitions. Tel: Louis 200 77035.

Ten-Pin Bowling: At King’s Bowl in the King’s Bastion Leisure Centre every day.

Gibraltar Ten Pin Bowling (members FIQ & WTBA) leagues, training for juniors and squad. Tel: 20052442.

Triathlon: Hercules Triathlon Club organises swimming, running and cycling training sessions and competes regularly in Andalucia and Internationally. Contact chris. walker@york.gi or Facebook “Hercules Triathlon Club” Volleyball: Gibraltar Volleyball Association training, indoor leagues, beach volleyball competition, 3 v 3 competition, juniors and seniors. Tel: 54001973 or 54885000.

Yoga: Integral Yoga Centre runs a full programme of classes from Mon-Fri at 33 Town Range. Tel: 200 41389. All welcome.

Theatrical Groups Gibraltar Amateur Drama Association: At Ince’s Hall Theatre Complex, 310 Main Street.

Tel: 20042237 or gibdrama@yahoo. co.uk www.geocities. com/gibdrama Trafalgar Theatre Group: meets 2nd Wed of month, Garrison Library 8pm.

All welcome.

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Support Groups ADHD & Learning Difficulties (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Meetings at Fellowship Bookshop Catholic Community Centre, Line Wall Road. Coffee, chat, books and resources on display.

Tel: 54027551 or 54014476.

Alcoholics Anonymous meet 7pm Tues & Thurs at Nazareth Hse Tel: 200 73774.

A Step Forward support for single, separated, divorced/widowed people, meet 8pm Mon at St Andrew’s Church.

Mummy & Me Breastfeeding Support Group those who are pregnant, breastfeeding or have breastfed to get together for coffee, chat / support. Partners and older children welcome. Meets 1st Wed / month at Chilton Court Community Hall at 1.30pm. Enquiries and support 54014517.

Childline Gibraltar confidential phone line for children in need. Freephone 8008 - 7 days a week 6pm - 10pm.

Citizens’ Advice Bureau Open Mon-Fri 9.30-4pm. Tel: 200 40006 Email: info@ cab.gi or visit 10 Governor’s Lane. No appointment necessary, no charge.

Gibraltar CAB outreach clinics at St Bernard’s Hospital every Tuesday. Advisors available at 1st floor reception, Zone 4, 9am-3pm. Free, confidential, impartial.

COPE Support group for people with Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia or Rheumatoid Arthritis. Formed to ease challenges of individuals, families and care partner.

Meetings at Catholic Community Centre Book Shop at 7.30pm first Thursday of each month. Tel: 200 51469 Email: copeadsupport@hotmail.com Dignity At Work Now. Confidential support and advice for those who are being bullied at work. Tel: 57799000 Mon - Thur 8pm-9pm Families Anonymous Support group for relatives and friends who are concerned about the use of drugs or related behavioural problems. Meet alternate Thursdays at 9pm at Nazareth House. For info Tel: 200 70047 or 200 73465.

Gibraltar Cardiac Rehabilitation and Support Group meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 8.30pm at the John Mac Hall, except for July and August.

Gibraltar Dyslexia Support Group 3/8 Serfaty’s Passage Tel: 200 78509 Mobile: 54007924 website: www.gdsg.co.uk Gibraltar Marriage Care. Free relationship counselling, including pre-marriage education (under auspices of Catholic Church, but open to all). Tel: 200 71717.

Gibraltar Society for the Visually Impaired. Tel: 200 50111 (24hr answering service).

Hope. miscarriage support Tel: 200 41817.

Narcotics Anonymous Tel: 200 70720 Overeaters Anonymous support group for compulsive overeating problems. Tel: helpline for meetings info 200 42581.

Parental Support Group, helping parents and grandparents with restrictive access to their children and grandchildren. Tel: 200 46536, 200 76618, or 54019602.

Psychological Support Group, PO Box 161, Nazareth House. Meet Tuesdays at 7pm, Fridays 8pm. Tel: 200 51623.

SSAFA Forces Help Gibraltar, a UK charity, to assist serving and ex-Service personnel and their families. Tel: (5)5481.

Email: Susan GIB-CST-JSWPA@mod.uk With Dignity Gibraltar support for separated, divorced/widowed or single people. Meet Weds 9pm, Catholic Community Centre, Line Wall Rd. Outings/ activities. Tel: 54007181 or 200 79957.

Women in Need. Voluntary organisation for all victims of domestic violence.

Refuge available. Tel: 200 42581 (24 hrs).

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Taekwondo’ s Megan to Compete in UK Megan Ruiz will be competing on Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th March 2014 at the British Taekwondo National Poomsae Championships, held at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley, UK.

Megan will be competing in the Individual Under 17 “A Class” against players whom have competed at World Championships. There will be a total of 16 competitors in her category, from all over the UK and the standard is expected to be very high.

Master Ernest Garcia, who has been coaching her for the event, will accompany Megan.

Gibraltar Taekwondo has also announced the launch of its new website, designed by Lorena Garcia. Visit www. gibraltartaekwondo.org.

Anyone interested in joining the Taekwondo sport, should visit www.facebook.com/Gibraltar Taekwondo, the website www. gibraltartaekwondo.org or email: tkdgarcia@hotmail.co.uk Tel: 200 44142.

Latest Med Golf News Med Golf’s event The Cruz & Co Trophy, took place at Valle Romano in midFebruary. The winner was Ross McQuater who took away the trophy and two green fees for the San Roque Club Old Course.

Best gross score and longest drive was Peter Warren. Best gross score on the par 3s was Chris Warren at 1 over par, beating son Peter with a slightly higher handicap. Best senior was Dave Pinniger.

Handicap category prizes went to: (0-12) Runner up Peter; winner Dave Pinniger; (13-22) Runner up Mike Harvey; winner Steve Buchanan; (23 and above) Chris O’Connor runner up; winner Iqbal Dharamsi.

Here is the updated Top Ten 1. Mike Harvey 2. Javi Hunter 3. Tim O’Toole 4. Chris Warren 5. Steve Stonefield 6. Peter Warren

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Med Golf’s next event is at Dona Julia on 16th March with a 9am shotgun start. You can enter the event by contacting Paul at paul@medgolfsecure.com

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he flora and fauna on the Upper Rock are considered of great conservational value. It’s the perfect place for birdwatchers, as migratory species use Gibraltar as the shortest crossing between Europe and Africa. Botanists will also be interested to see over 600 species of flowering plants, including some unique to Gibraltar. Watch out for colourful lizards, non-venemous Horseshoe Whipsnakes, butterflies and pipistrelle bats. Info on flora and fauna at the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society’s information centre at Jews Gate.

St. Michael’s Cave: The cave comprises an upper hall with five connecting passages and drops of 40-150ft to a smaller hall. A further succession of chambers, some at 250ft below the entrance, is reached through narrow holes. The Cathedral Cave is open to visitors and is used as an auditorium for concerts and theatre. The cave was prepared as a hospital in WWII, but never used.

A further series of chambers ending in a mini lake is called Lower St. Michael’s Cave and can be visited with a guide.

The Monkeys’ Den: There are around 160 monkeys in the Park and around 30 can be seen at the Monkey’s Den. Often called apes, they are tail-less Barbary macaques and Europe’s only free living monkeys. £500 fine for feeding the monkeys - don’t do it!

The Great Siege Tunnels: Tunnelling in the Rock began during the Great Siege (1779-1783) when France and Spain made an attempt to recapture the Rock while Britain was busy with the American War of Independence. Governor General Elliot offered a reward to anyone who could tell him how to mount a gun on the north face of the Rock. Sgt. Major Ince suggested tunnelling and there are over 30 miles of tunnels inside the Rock with various exhibitions inside.

The Military Heritage Centre: Housed in one of the Rock’s many historic batteries, the Military Heritage Centre displays information on the development of Gibraltar’s military defences through the ages.

A City Under Siege Exhibition: Exhibits depicting the lives of civilian population during the many sieges, are housed in one of the earliest British building on the Rock. Original graffiti, drawn by duty soldiers to stop themselves falling asleep, is still visible, the earliest dating back to 1726.

The Moorish Castle: actually just part of a Moorish town and castle which was built up during the Moorish occupation of the Iberian Peninsula, spearheaded from Gibraltar in 711AD by Tarik-ibnZeyad (“Gibraltar” is a corruption of the Arabic words “Jebel Tarik” - Tarik’s mountain). The part we see today, The Tower of Homage, dates back to 1333AD, when Abu’l Hassan recaptured the Rock from Spain.

Natural History & Heritage Park Walks: Med Steps is a stunning walk with the steep climb at the end rewarded with spectacular views of the Rock and Spain. Another recommended walk is St Michael’s Cave through to Charles V Wall but walkers should be relatively fit for both. It

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is also pleasant walking along the upper rock roads. Brochures available free from all Tourist Board offices.

Botanical Gardens: Opened in 1816, the Alameda Botanical Gardens fell into disrepair but are being restored to their former glory. Visitors can enjoy a stroll beneath pines, dragon trees and palms, and see many of Gibraltar’s native plants as well as exotic species. The shop sells environmentally friendly gifts, plants and seeds. Tel: 200 72639/200 74022. Parking.

Nelson’s Anchorage: Rosia Road 9.30am - 5.15pm Monday to Saturday (last entry at 5pm). Closed on Sunday. Admission: £1.00 (free with Nature Reserve ticket. Tickets for the nature reserve can also be bought at this attraction).

Parson’s Lodge: Rosia Road. Narrow limestone outcrop with a labyrinth of tunnels surmounted by an impressive battery, which has witnessed the development of coast artillery over 300 years.

Housed three 18 ton 10-inch rifled muzzle loaders positioned behind a unique sandwich of armour plate/teak, known as ‘Gibraltar Shields’.

Flat Bastion Magazine Flat Bastion Road, Geological Research Station and Lithology of Gibraltar. To visit contact: F. Gomez Tel. 200 44460, P. Hodkinson Tel. 200 43910.

Shrine of Our Lady of Europe (Museum within premises) Europa Road. 10am-7pm Monday to Friday, 11am-7pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays.

Closed 1pm - 2pm.

Trafalgar Cemetery: Trafalgar Rd, 9am - 7pm daily (free).

Business Information Financial Serv. Commission Tel: 200 40283/4 Chamber of Commerce Tel: 200 78376 Federation Small Business Tel: 200 47722 Company Registry �������������������� Tel: 200 78193 Useful Numbers Airport (general info.) ���������������� Tel: 200 73026 Hospital, St Bernards ���������������� Tel: 200 79700 Weather information ������������������������ Tel: 5-3416 Frontier Queue Update Tel: 200 42777 Gibraltar Museum Tel: 200 74289 18/20 Bomb House Lane open 10am-6pm (Sat. 10am-2pm).

Closed on Sunday. Admission: Adults £2/Children under 12 years £1. Exhibitions also at Casemates gallery.

Registry Office Tel: 200 72289 It is possible to get married on the Rock within 48 hours. A fact taken advantage of by stars such as Sean Connery and John Lennon.

Rock Tours by Taxi Tel: 200 70052 As well as

History Alive Every Saturday morning the Rock’s past is brought alive by a troop of soldiers in 18th century period uniform. The soldiers march from Bomb House Lane at 12 noon to Casemates. At Casemates they carry out a “Ceremony of the Keys” and then march back up Main Street to the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned.

offering normal fares, taxis provide Rock Tours taking in the Upper Rock, Europa Point and other sites of interest. It is the best way to see the Rock’s major features in a short time.

John Mackintosh Hall Tel: 200 75669 Includes cafeteria, theatre, exhibition rooms and library.

308 Main Street 9.30am - 11pm Monday to Friday. Closed weekends.

Bicycle Racks Bicycle parking is provided at the following locations: Europort Road, Casemates Tunnel, Land Port Ditch, Fish Market Road, Commonwealth Car Park, Reclamation Road (by English Steps) + Line Wall Road.

Gibibikes is a scheme for public use of bikes taken from stations around the Rock. Visit www.gibibikes.gi for info.

Public Holidays 2014 Gibraltar & United Kingdom New Year’s Day Wed 1 January Commonwealth Day* Mon 10 March Good Friday Fri 18 April Easter Monday Mon 21 April Worker’s Memorial Day Mon 28 April May Day Thurs 1 May Spring Bank Holiday Mon 26 May Queen’s Birthday Mon 16 June Late Summer Bank Holiday Mon 25 August Gibraltar National Day* Wed 10 September Christmas Day Thurs 25 December Boxing Day Fri 26 December *Gibraltar only

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atural History & Heritage Park admission 9.30am to 7pm by tickets (includes entrance to sites - St. Michael’s Cave, Monkey’s Den, Great Siege Tunnels, Military Heritage Centre, ‘A City Under Siege’ Exhibition and Moorish Castle). Facilities closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Adults £10, children 5-12 years: £5, children age under 4 free, vehicles £2.

Private vehicles may be restricted at certain times, tours available by taxi/mini bus. Also reached by cable car (leaves Grand Parade 9.30am-5.15pm Mon-Sun. Last cable down: 5.45pm). 50p per person to walk with no entrance tickets.

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