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Gibraltar News 23 May 2023

UK’s Young Shakespeare Company puts on ‘Hamlet’ for over 2,500 students from Gibraltar schools

THE Young Shakespeare Company kept over 2,500 students from Gibraltar’s upper primary and secondary school on the edge of their seats last week. The UK professional theatre company put on two daily performances of Hamlet for pupils at John Mackintosh Hall theatre. Each show started with an interactive session where the actors introduced children to […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …

Gibraltar News 22 April 2023

Workers redeploy oil barriers around OS 35 wreck as storm passes in Gibraltar and salvage continues

AS this week’s storm passed Friday, port workers got to work redeploying the floating oil barriers around the OS 35 shipwreck off Gibraltar’s coast. Captain of the Port John Ghio said the operation to continue protecting the sea from further oil leaks would be finished by Saturday morning. It followed a week when howling 40km/h […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …

Gibraltar News 7 April 2023

Gibraltar government get £90 million cash payment for Eastside reclamation as project moves forward

THE latest developer of the Eastside Project has made a £90 million cash payment to take over the site in a deal that will provide £330 million in value for the Gibraltar Government. The government chose TNG Global Foundation as the highest bidder for the Eastside Reclamation. Minister for Economic Development Sir Joe Bossano said […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …

Gibraltar News 10 March 2023

Gibraltar government cuts short soaring plans by property developers to protect the public interest

NEW planning guidance will force private developers in Gibraltar to make sure their buildings care for the public good. The new government policy paper will make sure all buildings are shorter than the current E1 tower on Devil’s Tower Road. They will need to have shops, spas, restaurants, cafes and cultural venues at street level […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …

Gibraltar News 23 February 2023

Police in Gibraltar close off Rosia Bay after ‘suspicious box with wires’ reported in the sea

EMERGENCY services in Gibraltar locked down Rosia Bay after someone called in to report a ‘suspicious box with wires’ floating in the water. It followed an anonymous caller who rang in to report the object in the water, thinking it might be a bomb. The call to the Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) control room prompted […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …

Gibraltar News 8 February 2023

Youth service reaches out to the public to discuss three year plan as it opens a mental health exhibition

GIBRALTAR’S youth service is planning meetings with the wider public ‘to get informed, discuss and identify the needs of young people’, it said in a statement. This week, the Youth Service held an art exhibition at the GEMA gallery to mark Children’s Mental Health week. The planned meetings with stakeholders in the community will share […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …

Gibraltar News 24 January 2023

Real life Shawshank: RGP officer recalls the incredible story of the prisoner who tunnelled a hole out of his cell and wandered Gibraltar each night 

A PRISONER who painstakingly tunnelled a hole to escape his cell each night and wander the streets of Gibraltar was only given away after he was spotted by someone from the Rock’s parole board. The incredible story – straight from the Shawshank Redemption, a film released just the year before – only recently came to […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …

Gibraltar News 7 January 2023

Cadiz university academic slams Spain for saying it is ready for no EU deal on Gibraltar

A LEADING Cadiz university academic has predicted that Gibraltar’s neighbouring towns in Spain are ‘not ready’ for a no EU deal scenario. Jesus Verdu, a lecturer at Cadiz university and vice-rector of its Campo de Gibraltar campus, contravened a statement by Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares. Verdu said Spain and Andalucia’s governments have not […] Gibraltar News – The Olive Press Spanish Newspaper …