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MID-TOWN MADNESS! It would be madness for the Government to proceed with its plans of bailing out the Mid-Town develop-

ment when outline planning permission for offices have been approved already in five other projects. The

excuse the Government gave Parliament at the time of the budget was that the developers in question

could not raise bank finance for the project and that the Government was keen to see office space avail-

able for sale or rent. Since then, Greg Butcher, the developer of Ocean Village, has announced that he in-

tends building a “World Trade Centre” office block beside the Victoria Stadium with a total of 11,000

square metres of office space. When the Government made this announcement in June, four other pro-

jects had already received the green light from the Planning Commission to proceed with developments

that included offices. There is therefore no reason whatsoever for the Government to proceed with bailing

out this particular developer to the exclusion of others. The Chamber of Commerce already said it was

unfair for the Government to compete with the Private Sector and the Opposition has made it quite clear

that it does not endorse the use of public money to bail out developers that do not put their money where

their mouth is.

SAYING OF THE WEEK

Justice always prevails... three times out of seven.

NO GHA PAYOUT FOR CHRISTMAS

Despite all the hullaballoo surrounding the last pay

rise negotiated between the Government and the un-

ion UNITE, it has not yet been implemented and the

back pay will not be ready for Christmas. This is the

message emanating from the Health Authority which

excuses itself by saying that there is insufficient staff

available to implement the new pay rates and pay the

retrospection in time for Christmas. Perhaps this

small article in the paper will help management to

deploy more staff so that people can get paid what is

theirs by right.

ROYAL WEDDING IN APRIL SEE CENTRE PAGES

Why is Peter Caruana so insistent in helping out this

particular group of developers? Why is the bank reluc-

tant to back this project, is it because they do not share

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the optimism of Peter Caruana who sees queues of companies wanting to move into Gibraltar when he intro-

duces his 10% Corporate Tax at the beginning of the year? Why is it that Peter Caruana defended his decision to

get these developers to build the Leisure Centre as part payment for the land arguing that they knew better and

could do it cheaper only to end up doing the Leisure Centre himself for over twice as much as it was originally

estimated, £11 million? Why was the school that the developers were going to build as part payment of the land

never built? What is it that these developers, who were granted this contract without going out to tender, have

paid the Government to date for this land and how delayed in this project; should phase one not have been com-

pleted already? All these questions need to be answered in the public interest.

The New People told the Government some weeks ago that it should remove the land from these developers who

admit they cannot proceed with the project because they are unable to obtain bank finance, and put the whole

area up to tender, perhaps breaking up the development into two tenders. It would then test the market to see

whether there are developers out there willing to risk their money, rather than risk the money of the taxpayers

which is what Peter Caruana wants to do. In the process, the Development and Planning Commission should cut

the project down to size so that these tower buildings already approved do not hover over the boulevard like a

concrete monster bringing darkness to the city centre.

To add insult to injury, the only reason why there might be a shortage of office space is because Peter Caruana

decided to convert an office block at Europort into a hospital, spending much more than if he had purposely built

a new hospital from scratch; he could have done this on part of the land allocated to the Mid-Town development

given that this was where the GSLP/LIBS would have built the hospital if they had been elected into Govern-

ment. There have been enough mistakes already for the Government to take risks with our money in order to bail

out a group of developers who are already in competition with others in the same business. [See Editorial page 3]

MID-TOWN MADNESS from front page

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Peter Caruana has revealed to a Spanish journalist why he is using the date of May 2009 as the point at which the

incursions of the ―Guardia Civil‖ into Gibraltar waters changed, and why he believes that a restoration of the

status quo as at that time could resolve the deadlock over Gibraltar‘s territorial waters. He said that for the first

time the Civil Guard took on an executive role by stopping a vessel in Gibraltar waters and asking for papers,

acting as if it was the recognised authority. He added that on the 28th September a more serious incident occurred

because the ―Guardia Civil‖ tried to impede the Gibraltar Police from carrying out their duty in Gibraltar waters.

He then changed what he had said and told the journalist that the RGP were actually stopped from arresting a

suspected delinquent. ―We have it on tape‖.

Whilst now understanding why Peter Caruana has chosen that particular date as the turning point over waters, he

seems to forget that even when he was in Opposition there was an incident which resulted in the ―Guardia Civil‖

landing on Eastern Beach in an executive role. On that occasion the GSLP Government did not interfere, justice

took its course; the Civil Guards were arrested, and guess who defended them in court? One Peter Richard Caru-

ana who was then Leader of the Opposition!

SIGNIFICANCE OF MAY 2009 REVEALED

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LET US STOP THE PLANNING ROT!

Gibraltar has had to sustain certain planning aberrations which it need not have had to suffer if the Govern-

ment and the Development and Planning Commission had done their job properly. Those members in the

Planning Commission who are not there representing the Government have an obligation and a responsibil-

ity to point out publicly these aberrations even if that means that they resign from the Commission, other-

wise where are the checks and balances on Ministers or on those dealing with wealthy but unscrupulous

developers wanting to stretch out every development as much as possible so that they may then earn more

per square metre when selling or letting property to clients in the Private Sector.

We have seen the unnecessary destruction of the Nelson Tanks and the overbuild of the lower South Dis-

trict through the stubbornness of a Chief Minister who has refused to look at viable alternatives for hous-

ing, preferring the quickest way out because he was found wanting by the electorate on the provision of

housing and he panicked. We have also witnessed how planning permission has been granted to the Cliff-

tops to go so high so as to block the view of one of Gibraltar‘s best touristic lookouts to the straits and Af-

rica; the development juts out in front of Jew‘s Gate as a reminder of what never to do again where plan-

ning is concerned. We have seen the totally unjustifiable destruction of the Theatre Royal, the loss of the

dome at the entrance to Casemates, proposals for the building of a worker‘s hostel just beside a residential

area, the approval of a block of flats that rises to nine storeys and overlooks the Jewish Cemetery etc, etc.

These are just a few examples of the approval of developments that have turned parts of our city into a

concrete jungle and have depleted radically that blend of architecture that reflected our Anglo/Hispanic/

Arabic past. If the Mid Town Development were to go ahead as planned, and we hope it does not, that

would be the last nail in the coffin of the centre of the city as far as planning is concerned.

We were able to learn last week that there is now a proposal to build an eleven storey building at Europort,

an area which is already very heavily built up and which has very few open spaces and is short of parking

spaces even when counting those parking spaces made available by the developments. We have also re-

cently learnt that a company wants to build a hotel at Devil‘s Tower Road, with views of the cemetery, a

church on its side, a four lane thoroughfare in front of it and a noisy airport metres away. The Develop-

ment and Planning Commission must put a stop to this planning madness before it is too late, that is if it is

not too late already. There are some of us who live in Gibraltar, that do not only come in to work and live

in Spain, whether it is Sotogrande, La Alcaidesa or further afield. The quality of life of the people of Gi-

braltar is being summarily ignored by these planning aberrations which no-one even tries to defend any-

more because they are indefensible. The funny thing about it is that those involved in planning matters, in-

cluding Government Ministers, are then photographed and portrayed in the media as the conscious protec-

tors of our heritage and our history when they are responsible for destroying the Gibraltar we have all

loved and cherished and creating in its place this new Gibraltar where the earning of a fast buck by both

the Government and some unscrupulous developers takes precedence over everything else when consider-

ing a planning application. Let us start doing things properly; there is no need for this Computer Data Cen-

tre to be erected bang in the centre of Europort even if the Government is to get some good money for the

only open space available in the area. Let us use our common sense and start protecting our home before

we find that we live inside a concrete city full of walls with the levanter being the only air we will be al-

lowed to breathe. Let us do the right thing for once, Gibraltar deserves much better than what it is getting

from the Development and Planning Commission.

THE NEW PEOPLE

Published by “The New People” Publishing Ltd

Icom House, 1/5 Irish Town,

Suite No. 6/608

PO Box 561,

Gibraltar

Tel: 54374000

Editor: Juan Carlos Perez

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CARRACAO DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE says Opposition

The Opposition have taken to task the Spanish Socialist

Senator, Jose Carracao, for having suggested last week

that there is no political instruction given to the

―Guardia Civil‖ by the Spanish Government in Madrid

over Gibraltar, implying that the incursions into territo-

rial waters are the result of individuals who get very hot

under the collar when they are in pursuit of suspected

delinquents at sea. The GSLP/LIBS say that this is just

not true. “In the first place, the official policy of the

Spanish Government is that Gibraltar has no waters

and that all the sea around the Rock belongs to Spain.

It is only logical that Spanish law enforcement agen-

cies will act in accordance with this policy and will

behave as if they were in Spanish waters when they

are inside the territorial waters of Gibraltar. There-

fore there does not need to be a specific political in-

struction to the Guardia Civil to make an incursion

into Gibraltar waters quite simply because there is al-

ready a permanent standing instruction, as reflected

in the policy of the Spanish state, that the waters be-

long to Spain.” The Opposition say that Carracao‘s

attempt to excuse the conduct and behaviour of the

Spanish law enforcement agencies is an attempt to de-

fend the indefensible. “It is as ridiculous as to claim

that the four Civil Guards who entered the Port of Gi-

braltar last year did not know where they were.” They

point out that the Spanish Senator has conveniently for-

gotten that the last incident at sea was not one of ―hot

pursuit‖, that it involved the Guardia Civil preventing

the Royal Gibraltar Police from taking a suspect into

custody inside Gibraltar‘s territorial waters and that

Spain has not even apologised.

Carracao had also said that it was possible to come to

an agreement on the waters with each side defending its

position on the question of jurisdiction until such time

as a court of law resolves the dispute. The Opposition

say that a police agreement cannot be possible whilst

Spain does not recognise the jurisdiction of Gibraltar

over its waters. “This is something that cannot be sim-

ply put to one side.” They further say that this matter

does not need to be taken to any court for a ruling be-

cause the territorial waters of Gibraltar are recorded

and recognised at the United Nations in the Convention

of the Seas which gives every territory, without excep-

tion, the right to its territorial waters.

McCLUSKEY IS NEW GENERAL SECRETARY OF UNITE Len McCluskey has won the race to become the General

Secretary of the union UNITE. He attracted 101,000 votes,

nearly twice as many votes as his nearest rival Jerry Hicks

who received 52,000.

Following the merger between the TGWU and AMICUS, it

was decided that there would be a joint leadership of the un-

ion until now. Tony Woodley [formerly TGWU] and Derek

Simpson [formerly AMICUS] have been jointly providing

the leadership of the amalgamated union UNITE for the past

three years. McCluskey now takes over from both of them.

The election is being interpreted in the UK as a move to the

left, a trend within the UK Labour Movement which started

with the election of Ed Miliband to the leadership of the La-

bour Party in October. McCluskey, who is the first grassroot

leader of the union since Jack Jones retired from the TGWU

in the 1970‘s, has vouched to decentralise the union and give

more power of decision to the membership. UNITE is the

biggest UK union with 4 million members. It is not known

how many members the Gibraltar Region has.

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ON THE BUSES

I read with great interest the story last week in The New

People that the Government were doing the opposite to what

everyone else in the world does; instead of finding a suitable

vehicle for the size of our roads, trying to adapt our roads to

the size of the vehicles they have purchased. This is what is

happening in the Upper Town and this is why they have sud-

denly decided to have large stretches of road designated as

―No Parking‖. Further proof of this is that the Government

has, in its wisdom, decided to remove the bumper from the

bus so that it can go through the nasty narrow spots of the

upper town. If it were a private company doing this the bus

would not pass the MOT test, but since the Bus Company is

owned by the Government, the law of the land, it appears,

can be ignored.

ALAMEDA DISCRIMINATION

There is a particular tenant at Alameda Estate who is up in

arms at the length of time it is taking the Buildings and

Works Department to repair his flat which has a balcony that

has been leaking for three years now. It is not the employees

of the Buildings and Works that have to carry out the works,

it is a contractor working for the Department, but up to now

they have come, looked at the job, gone away and never

come back. This person saw that the contractor was erecting

scaffolding and advised that his flat could be repaired by ex-

tending that scaffolding a few metres more. They turned

down his request. Now another tenant who is Mrs so and so

needs her balcony repaired and up goes the scaffolding.

This, says this tenant, is giving preference to one tenant over

another. In any case, no tenant should be waiting three years

to have his window repaired when there is water penetration.

CHAMBER CHECKS

The Chamber of Commerce is the organization that is least

justified to talk about checks at the Customs despite being

directly affected by the influx of goods bought by Gibraltari-

ans in Spain. When it comes to things like taking electricity

supplies from Spain they are only too ready to do so if it is

cheaper regardless of the repercussions to the many families

that depend on the work of generating and supplying elec-

tricity in Gibraltar. Worse still is that many of its members

and most of its directors live in Spain and spend in Spain

and care two hoots what that does to the economy of Gibral-

tar, but when it comes to some low wage earner buying in

Spain they want to make sure that he/she gets screwed for

every penny at the frontier. We should all pay duty because

that is the law of the land, but the Chamber should be the

last to make an issue out of it, they are not morally entitled

to.

Bits

&

PIECES

by Fly On The Wall

THE NEW FRONTIER

Ever since the anglers protested at the Guard Post to

North Mole that they were not allowed to fish in the

area even when there were no liners in port and that

they were discriminated by guards who allowed

some people in and not others, security has been in-

creased. Now, at the bequest of the Captain of the

Port, vehicles entering and leaving the North Mole

are being searched at the gate to the North Mole, al-

though no-one knows what exactly it is the security

guards are searching for. Is it bombs, smuggled

goods, stolen goods or the catch of the day? Surely if

there is a security issue the Royal Gibraltar Police

should be called in, and if there is not, and it is all in

the mind of the Captain of the Port, no searches

should be conducted. Security Guards at the North

Mole Gate should not be permitted to carry out

searches in vehicles authorised to go through. What a

carry on!

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Minister Holliday should have been at the very least

embarrassed to be talking about renewable energy to

a symposium about Gibraltar‘s future power needs

last week; Embarrassed to be part of the same Gov-

ernment that has neglected the question of Gibral-

tar‘s electricity needs to the extent that we are ex-

periencing unnecessary power cuts as a result; Em-

barrassed, because it has still not started to build the

new power station promised years back; Embar-

rassed because the Government has not even at-

tempted to meet the EU targets of renewable energy

sources despite the firm commitments given by Min-

ister Britto. Embarrassed because they should have

used the roof of the Leisure Centre to place solar

panels and they could have done likewise in the new

expensive Air Terminal, but they haven‘t. Embar-

rassed is the operative word for the Minister.

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THE CENTRE—FUERA DE QUISIO! ALEJANDRO AND PEDRO - A TALKATIVE PAIR! MONTIEL—TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE!

THE LAST CHANCE! by Montis Insignia Calpe

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THE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE

The Primary Care Centre is an ‗institution‘ which

‗belongs‘ to the Gibraltar Health Authority which, as the

Lady who is the ‗holder‘ of the ‗Medical Portfolio in the

Government of Gibraltar – and her ‗boss‘ – the Chief Min-

ister and Minister for Finance – both of whom ‗rule‘ the

Authority from ‗afar‘ – are all very ‗fond‘ of saying, al-

most every week, is ‗a State of the Art‘ Hospital – which,

it may have been meant to be when it was so wrongly con-

ceived – if nothing else – as to the ‗site‘ in which it finds

itself – only those few years ago! Quite a number of Con-

sultants, Doctors, Administrative Staffs, Nurses, Domes-

tics, Porters – and many ‗others‘ who do the rest of what

has to be ‗done‘, and, we believe, they are all ‗paid‘ what

is sometimes referred as ‗an honest day‘s wage for an hon-

est day‘s work‘ – and, among all those Ladies and Gentle-

men who render all those ‗honest days or‘ ‗honest day

wages – including the ‗managerial‘ top boys and girls – a

couple of them being sort of ‗new brooms‘ – follow them

and become, also, ‗new brooms‘ themselves! Now, we

know that, from time to time, ‗some‘ things go wrong – for

example, quite a number of ‗operations‘ are not ‗taking

place‘ because of ‗bed shortages‘ but, like everything else

in this World of Ours, ‗solutions‘ to this – and other prob-

lems – are ‗found‘ – some, more quicker than ‗others‘ –

but any ‗delays‘ could be ‗very bad‘ for those who need

those operations and, in connection with this particular

‗problem‘, an ‗extra sense (as the Government sometimes

says!) a need for a ‗dedicated‘ urgency is more than

‗essential‘! And, talking about ‗urgencies‘, we move

down to Main Street and to the Primary Care Centre which

can be ‗found‘ in the ICC Building and we refer – almost

‗in passant‘ – to the three letters that were published by the

Government‘s ‗independent‘ newspaper – from three very

‗concerned Citizens‘ – some ‗days‘ ago – on the subject of

the ‗Health Centre‘ and, specially ‗the abysmal system for

appointments‘ (as one Writer said) or ‗the ludicrous sys-

tem regarding appointments‘ (as a second Writer said) or,

the suggestion that the Government ‗increased the support

element‘ in the Health Centre‘s ‗capacity in view of an in-

creased population‘! We now leave all these ‗matters‘ –

and that of the apparent need of elderly persons having to

‗queue‘ outside of the ICC Building at about 6.30am in or-

der to be ‗able‘ – with some hope – to obtain an appoint-

ment for that day – to the ‗new brooms‘ to ‗solve‘ – for

‗solutions‘ are ‗of the essence‘ but, of course, these ‗new

brooms‘ (intelligent as they no doubt are) could still ‗run

into difficulties‘ for, as everybody knows, the ‗old brooms‘

are ‗still up there – at the top‘! We shall all have to wait

and see…!

EL ALEJANDRITO!

‗El loco de la Colina‘ de La Linea de la Concepcion is now

thinking of ‗opening another front‘ with the Madrid Cen-

tral Government as, he has declared, he will be ‗driving a

hard bargain‘ for selling the La Linea‘s ‗land‘ to AENA in

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order that this Authority can proceed towards the building

of the ‗access‘ to Gibraltar‘s Air Terminal! We suppose

that this ‗Loco‘ knows that if he ‗drives‘ a ‗hard bargain‘,

the Central Spanish Government has ‗means‘ to acquire the

Land and, legally, paying a ‗pittance‘ to the La Linea Mu-

nicipality! People say that ‗there is no fool like an old

fool‘ – but the only ‗problem‘ that La Linea has is that

‗Alejandrito‘ is, relatively, still a young man but if he con-

tinues with his ‗tantrums‘ he will still be ‗a young man‘ but

a very , very ‗old fool‘! We also think that ‗Alejandrito‘

should go back to Brussels and, finally, tell the Commis-

sion he is ‗putting‘ the ‗congestion charge‘ – or the matter

of the ‗toll‘ – in the same ‗back burner‘ on which Spain

dropped the matter of the sovereignty of Gibraltar – where

both will burn, comfortably, until ‗kingdom come‘ – or will

they? – for, as things are ‗looking‘ nowadays, the ‗back

burner‘ appears to have gone ‗out‘ – altogether – but, we,

are saddled with the Tripartite Hash – with Peter Richard

already ‗making noises‘ to attract the ‗attention‘ of the Par-

tido Popular – to prove that, even with elections round the

corner, this ‗guy‘ is ‗ready, able and willing‘ to ‗talk to

them in the Trilateral Forum‘ – which is the only ‗Forum‘

for ‗Talks‘ – as there is no ‗Bilateralism‘ – ‗as Gibraltar

Will Never Consent‘! Now, Caruana seems to have told

the University students that ‗his Government came very

close to establishing a process of bilateral discussions with

a PP Government (and going) so far as setting out an

agenda, dates and agreeing a European City to meet in –

but, this collapsed!‘ And, we ask, when did this happen –

and why did it collapse? And, another question, what does

Caruana expect – that the PP, in Government, will ‗talk to

Caruana – and to Britain – in the Trilateral Forum – on

‗Sovereignty‘ – for, if we remember correctly, Bilateralism

is what the United Nations would like to see ‗happening‘ in

order so that the ‗decolonisation‘ of Gibraltar would ‗come

to pass‘ by the ‗re-intergration of the Territory into that of

Spain‘ – with the people of Gibraltar having ‗no say‘ in the

matter – for ‗the right to self-determination was never an

option in that equation‘! Peter Caruana may have ‗said

other things‘ to those students e.g. if they believed that it

would be right or acceptable for Gibraltar to be handed

over to Spain against the consent of the people of Gibral-

tar? And, earlier, he had told his audience that the ‗birth of

the Trilateral Forum – after everything else had failed‘ –

was now an irreversible position – and that the Forum is the

only venue for discussion and for Spain to pursue its claims

through democratic means‘! Caruana, we believe, is not in

the same ‗state and stage‘ where ‗Alejandrito‘ is – and it is

because we think that – that we ask him to confirm to Gi-

braltar and to its people that the Trilateral Forum was, only,

to discuss and consider ‗cooperation‘ on matters which

concerned Gibraltar and its ‗Campo‘ – AND, DEFI-

NITELY, NOT FOR SPAIN TO PURSUE ITS CLAIM –

THAT FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GIBRALTAR –

WHICH IS THE ONLY ONE THAT IT HAS –

THROUGH DEMOCRATIC MEANS – for, all the World

knows, ‗Democracy‘ is neither ‗a concept nor a philosophy

nor a principle‘ that Spain is prepared to accept or apply to

Gibraltar and to its people! We believe that Caruana – in

his speech to these students – has talked too much – much

too much – and that he has ‗opened‘ doors to Spain which

should never have been! He has, we believe, gone much

too ‗further‘ than he should ever have gone – and, particu-

larly so, to the Fascist Partido Popular which could become

Spain‘s next Government! W also think that the people of

Gibraltar should never forgive you for going to such

lengths, particularly, when you have no ‗mandate‘ from

those people to have ‗done so‘ – and, probably, and almost

stupidly, creating ‗problems‘ for a ‗people‘ who are over-

burdened with ‗them‘! And, in conclusion, and as we said

a few weeks ago, Man, why don‘t you just ‗go‘…!

MONTIEL HAS „SPOKEN‟!

Minister Montiel, as we all know, was a very bad ‗Trade

Unionist‘ and, as rumours have it, he had to ‗go‘ before he

was ‗made to go‘! And, thanks to a ‗heck of a lot of luck‘,

he got himself into the GSD and ‗into Government‘! And,

in Government, he has not ‗done much‘ in his Ministry!

And, we recall, he once said, in answer to a Question, that

there, really, wasn‘t an ‗unemployment‘ problem! Now,

about a year or eighteen months later, he tells the people of

Gibraltar that (on, virtually, the eve of an election!) the

Government of Gibraltar has realised that there is a ‗serious

unemployment problem‘ and that that Government has

‗radical plans to tackle the ‗difficult‘ problem (that‘s two of

them!) of providing employment opportunities for ‗long-

term unemployed Gibraltarians‘! Dear Luis, we wish you

the best of luck- but it is these Gibraltarians that we are

sorry for – and the luck that we wish you is for you to find

employment for them – and if you don‘t ‗find‘ them, why

don‘t you ‗create‘ them – by kicking out of Gibraltar all

those non-Gibraltarians who are ‗enjoying employment‘ –

and the wages that such employment means to them – who

are ‗unregistered‘ and, therefore, in breach of the pertinent

legislation…!

A VERY HIGH TOWER

We hear that there are now a lot of people – Gibraltarians

most of them – who are very worried indeed at the prospect

of the ‗very high tower building‘ that somebody wants to

build at the end of Europort Road which, consequently, will

lead to a recreational park and a substantial number of

parking spaces being ‗lost‘ for ever. The Government has a

responsibility to ensure that Gibraltar does not become a

‗ghetto‘ of tall, unsightly, and unnecessary buildings which

deprive the City of and the people who live in it of views,

light, air and privacy…! If this Building must be built –

there must be another site! So, Government of Gibraltar,

please, if you can, act intelligently – as, from now on, you

will not have many more opportunities to do so…!

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JOE CARUANA RECEIVES THE OBE

In the picture is Joe Caruana with his wife, Anne Elizabeth, in the grounds of Windsor Castle after having re-

ceived there The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire from Her Majesty the Queen. He was accompanied

at the investiture by his nephew Charles Ramirez and his wife Helen.

PP WOULD END TRIPARTITE

The ―Partido Popular‖ member of Parlia-

ment for the Province of Cadiz, Jose

Ignacio Landaluce, said last week that if

his party were to win the next elections in

Spain it would pull out of the Tripartite

Forum. Landaluce, who has been selected

as the PP candidate for Mayor of Al-

geciras, said that he was not ruling out

some other form of dialogue but that the

PP were totally against the concept of

two flags and three voices, on which the

Tripartite Process is based. So where

does this leave the comments made by

Peter Caruana and the long gone Jose

Pons that cherry picking the Cordoba

Agreement was not a possibility? Would

those things that have been implemented

remain in force or would the Spaniards

consider returning the pensions update to

the UK?

SANCHEZ BACKS CLAIM

The Mayor of La Linea, Alejandro San-

chez, has jumped on the bandwagon of

those claiming compensation from the

Bank of Spain for the imposition of the

state exchange rate at the Gibraltar fron-

tier during the time of General Franco.

Workers coming into Gibraltar to work

were paid in pounds and the Franco Re-

gime took a good proportion of that

money by making it obligatory to change

those pounds into pesetas at a set rate

well below the official rate. Now the for-

mer workers or their next of kin are

claiming 243 million Euros from the

Bank of Spain in compensation for what

the Mayor has described as a great

―discrimination‖. Sanchez joined Manuel

Garcia Bado, the President of ALPEG,

for a publicity photo-call to announce his

backing for the claim.

CARUANA BLAMED FOR SMUGGLING

The association representing to-

bacco retailers in Cadiz have re-

ceived a letter from the President

of an investigative commission on

tobacco who has confirmed that

the situation of tobacco smuggling

at the Gibraltar frontier is out of

control and who is urging the

Spanish Government to do some-

thing about it. The Commissioner

is calling for a stricter control by

the enforcement agencies whilst

the Tobacco Retailers attribute the

increased smuggling to Peter Caru-

ana who, they say, has been recog-

nised as an equal by the Spanish

Government in Madrid and is do-

ing what he likes at the frontier.

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SANCHEZ BARGAINS WITH MADRID

The Mayor of La Linea, Alejandro Sanchez, has said

that he is to create a working party to negotiate with

AENA, the Spanish Government owned company

responsible for Spanish Airports, the price for the

land that the Central Government in Madrid needs in

order to build the access to the Gibraltar Airport to

comply with the international agreement entered into

in Cordoba between Spain and the United Kingdom.

The Mayor has indicated that his demands will be

high given that this land is the most valuable in the

municipality because there are private sector inves-

tors prepared to pay a high premium for it in order to

develop it for leisure activity. Although this statement

officially unblocks the building of the access, the ne-

gotiations over the price and conditions demanded by

Sanchez for the release of the land could take many

months and effectively continue to block the building

of the link with the Gibraltar Airport, something the

Central Government in Madrid is not too concerned

about.

Sanchez is also insisting that proposals for a conges-

tion toll to compensate La Linea for the contamina-

tion created by so many cars driving through the city

to get into and out of Gibraltar are nearly ready and

will now be submitted to ―comisiones informativas‖

for their approval. He is insisting that these new plans

will conform to EU rules.

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CITYPEG WANTS GIB TO CHANGE LAW

One of the La Linea based associations that claim to repre-

sent Spaniards currently working in Gibraltar, CITYPEG,

is calling on the Gibraltar Government to change the law

related to sick leave and to absence from work due to acci-

dents, for workers in the Private Sector. Its President, Fran-

cisco Ponce, has told the media in Spain that the law in

Gibraltar is not up to standard with the times in which we

live in and that neither Joe Bossano when in office, nor

Peter Caruana to date, have done anything about it. Ponce

sees himself with the right to tell successive Governments

of Gibraltar what laws they need to change or not change,

depending on how that affects those Spaniards currently

working in Gibraltar. He tends to compare laws in Gibral-

tar with the laws in Spain. His recent comments to the me-

dia suggesting that workers in the Private Sector have no

right whatsoever to sick leave entitlement is incorrect, as

so many other things Ponce has claimed in the past. Pen-

sions in Gibraltar is another sore issue with Ponce who

tends to compare what pension a worker in Spain gets with

a Spaniard working in Gibraltar making similar contribu-

tions towards the Social Insurance Fund.

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AN APRIL ROYAL WEDDING

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The wedding of Prince William and

Kate Middleton will take place on

Friday 29th April 2011 at Westmin-

ster Abbey. Both Her Majesty the

Queen and Prince Charles have ex-

pressed their delight at the engage-

ment of the couple and the subse-

quent announcement of the Royal

Wedding.

Prince Charles received a bit of bad

news this week when an opinion poll

suggested that most Britons would

prefer William and Catherine (as

she will be called when she is Queen)

to become the next King and Queen.

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK

SWEET POTATO PECAN PIE

(A Thanksgiving Special)

Ingredients: [8 persons}

1 refrigerated 9 inch pie crust, unbaked,

1 cup cooked peeled sweet potatoes [about 3],

1 tablespoon melted butter,

2 tablespoons heavy cream,

¼ cup brown sugar,

2 tablespoons white sugar,

1 egg, slightly beaten,

1 tablespoon vanilla extract,

¼ teaspoon kosher salt,

¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon,

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg,

¾ cup sugar,

¾ cup light corn syrup,

2 eggs,

2 tablespoons melted butter,

1 tablespoon vanilla extract,

1 cup pecan halves.

How to prepare: Preheat oven to 200c. Unroll pie crust; press into

an 8 inch pie pan and crimp edges. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.

Mash the sweet potato with the butter and the cream and reserve.

Combine the brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of white sugar, 1 egg, 1

tablespoon vanilla extract, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in electric

mixer bowl with reserved sweet potato mixture. Beat on medium

speed for between 2 to 3 minutes, or until smooth and set aside.

Combine the ¾ cup of white sugar, the corn syrup, 2 eggs, 2 table-

spoons of melted butter and 1 tablespoon vanilla extract in electric

mixer bowl. Blend on low speed for 1 minute, or until completely

blended. Add pecans and stir to blend; then leave to one side. To

assemble the pie, spoon the sweet potato mixture evenly into the

chilled pie crust. Carefully pour pecan mixture over the sweet po-

tato mixture. Bake for 1 ¾ hours or until filling is set and crust is

golden brown. Cool before slicing and serving.

KITCHEN TIPS

CHESTNUTS

Of all the dried fruits, chestnuts are the less fattening. A half

a dozen roast chestnuts is the equivalent in calories to a low

fat yogurt. Pine nuts and walnuts arte on the other end of the

scale as most fattening but they have other qualities which

are necessary to the body.

FRESH TOMATOES

Fresh tomatoes are recommended in sandwiches made of

cold meats, salmon and cheese. In order to get the finest cut

for the sandwiches you should cut the tomatoes vertically

and with a very sharp knife.

MANGO COOKING

Mangos can be cooked as you would vegetables; try it

steamed, stir fried or roasted, it will accompany any meat

dish perfectly. Try it! Steamed and mashed with roast pork

and roast potatoes. Yummy Yum!

TINNED PEAS

If you normally use tinned peas in your salads and you do

not like the taste that lingers from the tin, wash the peas in

cold water and then squeeze half a fresh lemon juice over

them, they will regain their freshness.

BEETROOT STAIN

If you have inadvertently stained a garment with beetroot,

just sponge it down with a bit of cold water and then im-

merse in cold water for two hours before you wash the gar-

ment as normal.

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Peter Caruana has given the first indications to date that he recognizes he was totally mistaken over the

position he adopted in July 2009 when he paved the way for the visit of Miguel Angel Moratinos to take

place. When he succumbed to diplomatic pressure and declared publicly that the waters issue had been

neutralised, there were voices in many quarters urging him to place the resolution of the waters as a pre-

condition to the visit, but he did not listen, instead he started creating ill will and resentment against Spain

amongst Gibraltarians by attacking the incursions and telling people to use flare guns to warn the au-

thorities in Gibraltar of any further incursion, and then he did an about turn in 24 hours and sold the idea

that intensive negotiations through the night had found this magic formula of words that had neutralised

the waters dispute, thus paving the way for the visit of Spain‟s Foreign Minister to take place. Now, for

the first time, speaking in Algeciras, he has accused Spain of taking advantage of the Tripartite Process

for Dialogue to change its position over the waters that surround Gibraltar once it was seated at the table.

He has not only said that he has been cheated by Spain, he is indicating with these words that Madrid is

standing firm on the question of the waters, that it is not budging or fudging, and that this theory that he

had that it would be easy for Madrid to say that it was possible to restore the status quo to what it was

prior to May 2009 is neither easy nor feasible.

Caruana still has not explained why he is so insistent on the date of May 2009 but it seemed to those that have

been following his politics for some time that this is just a date taken out of the hat to make believe that both

sides could restore some sort of working relationship where the waters are concerned given that by May 2009

there had already been several recorded incidents of incursions by the ―Guardia Civil‖ into our waters and the

EU had already designated Gibraltar waters to Spain for the purposes of applying EU directives on marine envi-

ronment. There is no magic to the May 2009 date; if Peter Caruana wants to go to a status quo position it must

go back several years to immediately after the signing of the Cordoba Agreement which is when Spain started to

sanction the incursions into our waters so as to create an issue that did not exist and then raise it as a matter for

discussion in the Tripartite Forum for Dialogue for resolution, thereby gaining ground by every move they did

COULD ALGECIRAS BE THE TURNING POINT?

By John Clear

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even though they were pretending

to have put the question of sover-

eignty to one side. The waters issue

is certainly separating the partici-

pants of the Tripartite Forum like

never before, to the extent that Ca-

ruana has lost track with what Ma-

drid is thinking; he goes first into

the deep in Algeciras in this

friendly University Round of Talks

where he is asked about the pros-

pects of the Ministerial Talks tak-

ing place and he says that he is op-

timistic that they will take place, as

scheduled, before Christmas. Then

when it is the turn of Julio Mon-

tesino to speak, the representative

of Spain‘s Foreign Office in the

zone lets it be known officially that

those talks have been postponed

until either January or February that

they are not going to take place as

Caruana was hoping and planning

for. The Civil Servant from Madrid

was better informed of what was

happening on the ground than the

Chief Minister of Gibraltar is and

Madrid did not bother to inform

him beforehand or release the infor-

mation publicly before the speech

by its man in the Campo, it was left

to Montesino to release the infor-

mation as part of his own speech.

That is a snub to Caruana, of that

there is no doubt.

Montesino had more surprises in

store for Peter Caruana. Al-

though Caruana had said in his

own contribution that the Brus-

sels Agreement was inoperative

given that Gibraltar would never

be content to have the matters of

sovereignty discussed or negoti-

ated between the United King-

dom and Spain, and the British

Foreign Office and British Minis-

ters would not enter into discus-

sions or negotiations unless Gi-

braltar is content, the precise and

clear definition of the official po-

sition of Madrid given by Mon-

tesino must have taken him

aback. Brussels, for Spain, is a

written admission by the Govern-

ment of Margaret Thatcher that

the United Kingdom is not inter-

ested in keeping Gibraltar and

that the provisions of the Treaty

of Utrecht apply in as much as

the United Kingdom will not

mind surrendering Gibraltar to

Spain, but it has a commitment

with the people of Gibraltar that

Gibraltar will not pass to the sov-

ereignty of another state against

their declared wishes. Spain will

never give Brussels up and has

since been prepared to start woo-

ing the Gibraltarians, but never

recognising that they are the ones

that decide whether Gibraltar

turns to Spain or stays with Brit-

ain. Montesino read the riot act,

reminding Peter Caruana that

Gibraltar is still a colony and

that the joint resolutions by the

UN every year refer to Brussels;

that is that the sovereignty can

only be discussed between Spain

and the United Kingdom.

The other big shock for Peter Caru-

ana must have been to have been

told that the legal position of the

tripartite Forum, as Spain under-

stands it, is that there are parties

and participants and that there are

only two parties, Spain and the

United Kingdom, relegating Peter

Caruana to a mere participant de-

spite the talk of flags and voices

and the fact that he appears

squeezed between two Foreign

Ministers every time there is a Min-

isterial Meeting. The photo oppor-

tunity is permitted but the legal po-

sition, as explained by Julio Mon-

tesino, is categorical-two parties

only.

Algeciras cannot be construed as

having been positive for Peter

Caruana, although it could be the

beginning of the turning of the

tide for the people of Gibraltar

now that their naïve and short-

sighted elected representative has

admitted to having been conned

by Madrid over the waters dis-

pute. To add to his woes he was

told by his pal Landaluce to for-

get any notion of the Tripartite

continuing under a “Partido

Popular” Government in Spain.

There are some days when it is

better not to get out of bed at all.

The New People_________________________________________________________

Luis Montesino, the representative of the Spanish Foreign Office in the

Campo de Gibraltar.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir,

Sponsors for Charity

The six members of the Gibraltar City Fire Brigade [Martin

Posso, Jared Olivero, Julian McGrail, Nicholas Ferrary, Ber-

nard Vaughn and Ian Vinales], who participated in the Men‘s

Health Survival of the Fittest Course held in Nottingham on

the 9th October 2010 would like to thank the following spon-

sors for their generous donations towards Breast Cancer Sup-

port Gibraltar: AquaGib Ltd, Gedime Motors Ltd, Finsbury

Trust and Corporate Services Ltd, Tarik Ship Agents and Bun-

kering Services Ltd, Price Waterhouse Coopers Ltd, S M Se-

ruya Ltd and Hassan and Partners.

Many Thanks,

Gibraltar Firefighters

********************

Dear Sir,

Dudley Ward Tunnel

I wonder where the eight years of waiting and the £10.6 mil-

lion spent on the Dudley Ward Tunnel have gone. Pedestrians

cannot use the tunnel, the road resurfacing is incomplete, the

lighting leaves much to be desired, there is no ventilation as

required by the EU, no telephone in case of an accident, the

parking spaces that were there for the beachgoers have disap-

peared, because it has been opened two-way [something which

is not necessary] the parking spaces for the residents of Both

Worlds have also disappeared. Can anyone explain what the

three Ministers involved were thinking throughout the last

eight years?

It is no wonder that the opening of the tunnel has not had the

desired impact that Peter Caruana and the GSD expected. Peo-

ple are not fools, they can see through this propaganda game.

Yours sincerely,

Luis Edwards

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Dear Editor,

The Time Tunnel

It has taken about 8 years of inconvenience to the public for

the Gibraltar Government to see the light at the end of the

Dudley Ward Tunnel. Surely after spending almost £11 million

the least they could have done for the public and residents of

what used to be ―Sandy‖ Bay Beach is to have provided new

parking facilities. Also under Health and Safety Regulations,

the Government should have also installed emergency tele-

phones, fire extinguishers and ventilation within the tunnel.

Let‘s hope we do not have to wait another 8 years for this to be

rectified.

Yours sincerely,

M Garcia

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Dear Sir

The Boat Owners

I have been stopped by many boat owners in the street who are

wondering what is happening with the provision of berths for

their boats which was promised many years ago by the Gov-

ernment. The answer is that I do not know.

Even though I was elected on to the boat owners committee at

the last meeting, I and one of my colleagues are not being kept

informed about the latest state of play. This means that the in-

formation is kept by the other committee members to them-

selves without keeping us all in the loop. By the looks of it, the

membership is not being kept informed either.

I remember that the old committee, on which I also served,

would keep the membership informed by holding meetings at

which people were told what was happening. Now everything

is treated like a state secret. There are some pontoons in the

area of Watergardens which need to be looked at before the

bad weather sets in. A meeting should be called at which all

boat owners are kept informed and at which any grievances

against some of the present committee members can be aired.

Yours faithfully,

J Buttigieg

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The law firm HASSANS has announced that two of its practitioners, Ian Felice and Richard Buttigieg [pictured

above] have been admitted to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands. This means that they have been admitted to

practice as Barristers of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the territory of the Virgin Islands and are in a

position to advise clients on all matters relating to BVI law and appear in court there. Clearly a move designed to

enhance the services given to clients within the Financial Services Industry.

HASSANS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

DONATION FOR TODAY’S CONVENT CHRISTMAS FAIR As can be seen in the picture,

Gibtelecom last week made a do-

nation towards the Convent

Christmas Fair which takes place

today. The Gibtelecom donation

consisted of a cheque for £1000, a

Blackbury Pearl and a Nokia

2323. The company follows in

the footsteps of Bassadone Mo-

tors, CEPSA, Logistable Limited

and Party Gaming all of which

have also made important dona-

tions towards the Fair. The pro-

ceeds of the Fair will go to the

Women‘s Refuge, St Vincent de

Paul and the Gibraltar Society for

the Visually Impaired. Gibtele-

com have said they are delighted

to support the Convent Christmas

Fair once more and to support the

charities that will benefit from it.

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AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYE GLASS

By Spycatcher

THE “INTERNATIONAL” AIRPORT

I spy with my little eye something beginning with I…When

something becomes international it means that it is open to the

world as opposed to confined to one‘s own country. The Gibraltar

Airport is considered to be a British Regional Airport and has

flights to Gatwick, Luton, Heathrow and Manchester. For those of

us that have our two feet firmly on the ground, these are not only

national flights but flights between a Military Airport with civil-

ian use and the UK, this being our only destination as yet. Having

lost our links with Morocco and having tried unsuccessfully to

start air services to Spanish cities we have fallen back to being

less than what we used to be. Peter Richard, however, has delu-

sions of grandeur and is spending millions of pounds on an Air

Terminal that can handle 1 million passengers when it presently

handles 120,000, which is 10,000 less than a year ago. He has

therefore decided to describe it as an ―international‖ airport, as if

we were flying to the four corners of the world, perhaps he still

hasn‘t taken in the fact that Holliday‘s Fly Gibraltar floundered

and that this Irish millionaire that was to invest £400 million in

Gibraltar has long gone. Could it be that he is trying to kid us all

into believing that Gibraltar is now decolonized and that, there-

fore, the United Kingdom is a foreign country, hence the descrip-

tion of ―international‖ for an airport that only flies to the UK?

HOLLIDAY‟S OBSESSION

I spy with my little eye something beginning with H….Minister

Holliday appears to continue to live in a world of his own and

prefers to believe that the outrage felt by citizens over many of

the things he does is a figment in the imagination of Opposition

Members, on this occasion Gilbert Licudi. Holliday, who was pic-

tured uncomfortably surrounded by children on the official switch

-on of the Christmas lights looking more like Scrooge than Father

Christmas, said Licudi has a pathological need to criticize what

the Government does, which is very little and which it tends to get

wrong repeatedly. He was referring to the ban on parking gener-

ally and more particularly in Flat Bastion Road, something

Holliday says has been absolutely necessary to allow the fire ten-

ders and the ambulances to get through. Now Licudi was saying

that if there is a promise to build a car park in the area, why not

wait for the car park to be built before introducing the restrictions

without prior notice, after all the access to the fire tenders and the

ambulances must have been impeded well before now and

Holliday has had 14 years to sort it out. Holliday is, however, ob-

sessed with the Opposition, and responds to them as if he was be-

ing haunted out of office by them and this is why he even admits

to the GSLP having supporters in Flat Bastion Road, probably be-

cause he knows the GSD have lost the few it had.

TRIPARTITE BLUES

I spy with my little eye something beginning with T…The Tripar-

tite Process has been the subject of close scrutiny in the talks

sponsored by the University of Cadiz in Algeciras last week. It

was funny to see how each of the performers had a different part

to play and yet they finished up synchronizing, as if their roles

were just that, performances in a play for the benefit of their re-

spective audiences. Peter Richard went that extra mile to make it

clear that he would not give the United Kingdom permission to

even talk about sovereignty [unless proposals were put to him]

and to offer an olive branch to the ―Partido Popular‖ in the event

that they became the next Government of Spain, an olive branch

that was soon turned down by Landaluce who quite categorically

said that a PP Government would end the Tripartite Process. Julio

Montecino‘s contribution was also enlightening because he distin-

guished between ―parties‖ and ―participants‖ suggesting that the

parties are the United Kingdom and Spain and that Peter Caruana

is a mere participant, this is why he argued in favour of sover-

eignty being a bilateral issue. Where that leaves the voices, flags

and vetoes we heard so much about is the obvious question to ask.

Everyone concluded that there is no substitute to dialogue….yet

look at the grave disagreements that dialogue have brought about,

disagreements that did not exist before the Tripartite started. To

add to the woes of the pro-Tripartite lobby the Ministerial meet-

ing has now been postponed for a second occasion. What next?

MONTIEL WAKES UP

I spy with my little eye something beginning with M….Minister

Montiel has finally woken up to the fact that there are long term

unemployed Gibraltarians, and now that the general election is

round the corner he has decided to appear to do something about

it. Let us not forget that this is the same Montiel who used to say

that if there were any Gibraltarians unemployed it was because

they did not want to work. The same Montiel who puts young

people into schemes that do not offer solid jobs at the end, a good

example being the apprenticeships in the shipyard, where the guys

got the sack before receiving their qualifications showing they

had successfully completed the apprenticeship. Now the Minister

says that the Government will offer incentives to take on some of

these employees by breaching GSD tender procedures and giving

Government contracts to companies that take on some of these

workers, something criticized by the GSD prior to 1996 when the

GSLP was doing this. He talks of ex-offenders, individuals in re-

habilitation for substance abuse, single parents and persons with a

low academic background and poor social skills, and groups them

altogether, as if they were the problem and not the unfair competi-

tion from frontier workers and the neglect of this Government that

does not care for these people. Please Montiel, you are one of

those people with a low academic background and poor social

skills. How about a job equal to yours!

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LA ESPINITA DE MARIA TERESA!

Un poco más y se parte el Tripa Hartita en pedazos. No!

No ocurrió la semana pasada con las charlas en Algeciras,

las cuales han sido muy educativas por aclarar el palomeo

que se traen unos cuantos. No fue ni las colas de la fronte-

ra, ni el follón de las aguas ni las demandas que le hacen al

Cascarrabias aquellos españoles que hoy trabajan en Gi-

braltar. Ya estamos acostumbrados a todo este sin fin de

injusticias, demandas y promesas sin cumplir. El Tripa

Hartita estuvo en peligro de partirse gracias a una locutora

de TELE CINCO. Si! Fue María Teresa Campos la que

estuvo a punto de cargarse el Tripa Hartita con una pregun-

ta que le hizo a Albert Hammond en un programa titulado,

―Que Tiempo Tan Feliz‖. María Teresa es una de esas que

tiene la espinita de Gibraltar clavada es su corazón, y como

el de la espinita estaba en el plato, no pudo resistirse a pre-

guntarle si se sentía mas ingles que Yanito, por esto de

haber nacido en Londres durante la evacuación, una conse-

cuencia de la historia. En ese preciso momento se quedo

Gibraltar en suspenso-en el patio de mi casa no se escucha-

ba un alma, todos esperando la contestación de Albert

Hammond. Cuando vino esa contestación nos sentimos

muy defraudados. Tuvo una oportunidad de oro para decir-

le a María Teresa que se sentía Yanito porque eso es lo que

es, y la desperdicio miserablemente. Albert le dijo a María

Teresa que él es ciudadano del mundo. Se lo dijo a aque-

llos que antes nada son españoles, después son latinos, des-

pués europeos y después son parte del mundo.

Hay quien cree que estaba aleccionado por su amigacho el

Cascarrabias para no enfadar a los españoles y así proteger

el Tripa Hartita. Quizás quiso ser diplomático, pero hay

algunos pájaros viejos que nos acordamos de lo que paso

hace muchos años cuando Albert le dio la vuelta a una pre-

gunta para no admitir que era Yanito. Me quito el sombre-

ro para saludar a Albert Hammond el cantante y composi-

tor, pero tengo que decir que como hijo de Gibraltar deja

mucho de desear. En fin, que tampoco puede decir uno

algo que no siente, algo que no lleva por dentro, hay quien

es Yanito de pura cepa y hay quien no lo es y Albert no lo

es. Al pan, pan y al vino, vino, como dice el refrán. Menos

mal que no estaba Belén Esteban en el plato, porque esa

mata por defender a un Gibraltar español. VALE! Al fin

del día María Teresa se ha quedado con la espinita por de-

ntro y Albertito Hammond con ganas de ser leyenda. Hay

quien lo recordara por unas cosas y hay quien lo recuerde

por otras. Los Yanitos somos duros y no perdonamos fácil-

mente. Ya ves si es así que comemos pan de lata, pescao de

piedra y queso de plato, más duro que un roble!

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