The Gibraltar Magazine - January 2016

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- Improved lifestyle

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Modern Man’s - NY Resolutions

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2016 Predictions - Finance & Property

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elcome to 2016! New year, new opportunities, new goals, new you, new EVERYTHING, right?!

Oh, and new resolutions. But why are we destined to fail them? Cause, we all know, by the end of the month, we will. Well, apparently our goals aren’t realistic, we want too many changes that are too big and we want them too fast. The benefits are delayed and we’re impatient so we give up. The only way to persevere and succeed is to change the way we think about our resolution; it’s not a chore, it’s something that will benefit us, you want it; if you work for it, you’ll make it happen, you’re in charge! Focus on the task, not the outcome, break it down into small steps and embrace the failures; that’s how we learn. Make mistakes, understand them, accept and move on…

explored the Alameda Gardens’ hidden treasure, the Wildlife Conservation Park, which is in the process of applying for an official zoo membership (p. 40). On page 44, you can find out how ‘not to be a modern man’ this new year while on page 54, how modern men of the late 19th century brought anarchy to the Rock.

To help yourself on the path to selffulfillment follow in Bill Clinton’s footsteps and start out with a lifestyle change that will prove hugely beneficial in a myriad of ways. Veganuary is kicking off this month, with thousands around the world turning vegan for the month of January. You can read all about the movement, and how you can join on page 37. Also in Life, we

A new year surely means new exciting travels! In Leisure, Sophie navigates us on a tour of New Zealand’s South and North Islands, walking us through some of the bigger dare devil attractions (p.

69). Denise DeVincenzi opened up about the art of tour guiding and the incredible opportunities it can offer around the world (p. 75). Fashion columnist Alex

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Business contributors Ian and Mike make predictions for 2016 in both the financial (p. 21) and property markets (p. 34), whilst Callie advises on the best financial resolutions to make for yourself. January also sees the launch of a new venture, the Gibraltar – Israel Chamber of Commerce, headed by two contributors of this very magazine, Eran and Ayelet Shay, who are forging relationships between the Rock and up and coming technology industries in Israel (p. 32).

urges readers to look towards clean and minimalistic styles, as we step into January (p. 65). In the spirit of keeping fit and healthy in the New Year, I urge you to have a read of page 79, and do think about joining the Gibraltar Cycle Club on the roads to Jimena each weekend, as they quickly pick up more bicycle loving members.

The New Year is about assessing the old one, what was positive and negative, how to increase the good and decrease the bad. Numbers are arbitrary but they are full of potential, they give hope. If you find your motivation waning, just realise every day is a start of a new year - reflection and growth should be encouraged daily, not just at the start of a new calendar.

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contents 8 NEWS 13 Adopt a dog 15 Around Town 18 Hello there: What would you change?

FINANCE, BUSINESS, PROPERTY 21 24 26 28 30 32 34

Fair Winds & Following Seas - 2016 predictions A New Ending - Anyone can start from now Economic Estimation, Prediction or Forecast Workforce of Tomorrow - The three elements at play Who’s the Boss? - Female leaders in numbers Gibrael in Motion - Linking Gibraltar and Israel Top Six 2016 Property Predictions + 2015 results

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Join Veganuary - New year, new, improved lifestyle Little Oasis - Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park New Year’s Resolutions - How not to be a modern man Prior Park - Introducing independent education True Bilingualism - Eddie Picardo Anarchy in Gib - Part One

SCENE Contributing writers: Ian Le Breton, Callie Lombard, Riaan De Lange, Shehzana Dharamsi, Eran Shay, Ayelet Mamo Shay, Mike Nicholls, Mike Brufal, Chris Grocott, Gareth Stockey, Jo Grady, Elena Scialtiel, Richard Cartwright, Alex Orfila, Sophie Clifton-Tucker, Andrew Licudi.

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56 ‘Art’ in Cathartic - Canvas Inspirations by Marie Fox 60 ‘Pan’ in the Pantomime - Harriet Seed as Peter Pan 62 Academy of Music & Arts - Learn any instrument

LEISURE 65 69 75 78 82 84 86

So Fresh, So Clean - New year, new you, new wardrobe Navigating New Zealand - Untouched terrains Llanitos on Tour - The beauty and art of guided tours Cycling into 2016 - The rise of the Gibraltar Cycle Club Alternative Practitioners - Wellbeing therapists Recipes: Ciabatta Sandwich & Perfect Pancakes The Secret of the Wolseley - Successful restaurant

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MISS ELEGANCE FOR GIBRALTAR’S SECOND PRINCESS

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aving just returned home from the Miss Supranational Pageant 2015 in Krynica – Zdrój, Poland, Miss Gibraltar’s Second Princess Natalia Nuñez was specially awarded Miss Elegance at the pageant. 82 contestants from around the world battled to be crowned Miss Supranational. The contest has run from 2009 and claims to be ‘one of the leading global beauty contests’ having become an official member of the Grand Slam of Beauty Pageants in 2010.

Overall, Natalia ranked 27, but was awarded for her elegance, intelligence and well-mannered behaviour throughout her time at the Pageant. Global Beauties, the

leading online magazine for International beauty pageants described Natalia as ‘one of the most elegant candidates around, Gibraltar is also very intelligent, polite and has done well in all of her presentations’.

On her return, Natalia praised the support she received from Gibraltar, saying ‘I want to take this opportunity to thank my amazing community (more like family) for all your support from the beginning. I see the pressure that some of the girls were under and I truly am blessed to have such a supportive country behind me.’

Miss Paraguay, Stephania Stegman, was crowned Miss Supranational 2015 by Miss Supranational 2014, Asha Bhat (Miss India). The show was televised on GBC.

RAMPARTS OFFERS NEW FIDUCIARY SERVICE FOR COMPANIES

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aving gained a reputation as a new, young and dynamic law firm, Ramparts European Law is quickly expanding their business in Gibraltar.

Starting off as a firm specialised mainly in the areas of Corporate law, E-Gaming, E-commerce and E-payments, providing Cross-Border regulatory advice and working with a network of international specialists, the firm has recently expanded its offering by adding a new, private client and family office service, expanding into Fintech and more recently obtaining a license to provide fiduciary services.

Emma Azopardi Lejeune who heads the Private Client and Family Office Department and co-heads the Fiduciary said ‘The decision to apply for a company administration licence came about primarily as a request from our clients to offer this service in-house. We soon realised that a fiduciary offering would be a great value-add and would allow us to go that extra mile in order to service their needs.’

The fiduciary model adopted by the firm will differ slightly from the conventional fiduciary. Companies will be offered as

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a commodity for a set price that will encompass the general upkeep of the company per annum including the cost of mandatory annual filings. The fiduciary will be run by the firm’s lawyers who will deal with transactions and minuting of matters relating to each company in the normal course of business. One or two administrators will be responsible for the general upkeep per annum.

Sian Hoskin who co-heads the Fiduciary said ‘We pride ourselves in being completely transparent and upfront about the services we offer. We do not want to include hidden charges, nor do we want to incur unnecessary fees for an offering that we feel is a means of providing a more efficient service.’

This new offering fits in very well with the firm’s corporate and private client service allowing the firm to provide the holistic approach that clients require in order to carry out their businesses or structure their affairs. Similarly, providing secretarial services to our clients allows us to extend the ‘outsourced in-house service’ we commonly provide to E-Gaming and E-payments companies by adding company secretarial to our list of services.

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GIBRALTAR TOP IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

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ate last year, Gibraltar was ranked the leader in environmental governance, amongst all UK Overseas Territories. The analysis was aimed at qualifying the ‘high level pledges’ the Gibraltar Government Department of the Environment and Climate Change are carrying out, and how much progress has been made in doing so. The analysis was conducted by charitable organisation the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, who works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom. Gibraltar was the only territory to be rated so strongly across the board.

A letter from the Head of the UK Overseas Territory Unit of the RSPB, Jonathan Hall, to the CEO of the Department of Environment’s CEO, Dr. Liesl Mesilio congratulated those involved in the

achievement, adding ‘building on the successful environmental conference that Gibraltar hosted this summer, we hope that Gibraltar may continue to play a key role in environmental leadership amongst the Territories, and further assist in helping to raise standards where practicable.’

Minister for the Environment, Dr. John

Cortes expressed his gratification over the award. ‘We have worked hard to network Gibraltar in the International Community and recognition such as this proves that we are moving strongly in the right direction. We will continue to work hard at an International level to ensure that our scientists continue to influence regional and global environmental policies.’

WORLD EDUCATION GAMES SUCCESS FOR KARL

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ibraltarian youngster Karl Galliano is a Year 2 student of St. Paul’s First School. Last month, Karl scored 243 points which successfully placed him 32nd out of millions of participants in the World Education Games, a free online education competition, held every two years. The competition is open to children globally and challenges over six million students worldwide. The contest is held in conjunction with UNICEF in an effort to raise funds to help send 33,000 students to school.

WEG covers literacy, maths and science categories and is open to different school year groups to compete against each other.

Karl’s success places him in the Year 2 Science Hall of Fame, representing both Gibraltar and his school internationally.

Karl started with the Maths category, moving on to English and science, which Karl enjoyed the most. Karl was pitted against other children of his age from across the world, all of differing abilities. He recalls being up against Japanese and American components during a game in which he had to shoot targets and answer science related questions. Karl’s overall score in science was matched

by Nigerian player Victor. The highest score obtained in the Year 2 Science category was 379.

Education Minister Gilbert Licudi congratulated Karl on his feat, commending him for working extremely hard for his School and Gibraltar.

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NEW EASYJET ROUTE TO MANCHESTER

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third easyJet route will be added to the bill at the Gibraltar Airport as from July 2016. The Gibraltar to Manchester flights will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays in a 180 seater A320. The route, with fares starting at £35.49 one way, is expected to attract approximately 30,000 visitors in the first 12 months of operation.

The route comes as a result of increased travellers looking to fly with easyJet on their Gibraltar routes, Head of Gibraltar at the budget airline, Ali Gayward says. She added, ‘We continue to see an increased number of travellers looking to fly with easyJet on our Gibraltar routes and with affordable fares and flight time of just over two and a half hours, we’re confident that this new service will prove popular

with both business and leisure travellers.’

The route will surely aid frequent flyers

between Gibraltar and Manchester, who previously had to travel from Malaga.

GIBRALTAR DANCERS IN POLAND

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ibraltarian dancers last month returned from the World Jazz and Modern Dance Championships, held in Mikolajki, Poland. The competition brought together 1,730 dancers from twentyeight nations and was organised by the Polish Dance Organisation on behalf of the International Dance Organisation.

Gibraltar placed 34th out of the sixty-one entries in the Junior Jazz Solo Female category, which saw Janis Jackson compete on behalf of the Rock. The team also participated in the Adult Jazz Solo Female category, with Lauren Montero representing Gibraltar. Lauren placed 29th out of the 44 entries.

Placing in the top 22 in the Adult Solo Modern Female section, competing on behalf of team Gibraltar Alanna Bonavia, Alexandra Ballentine and Louise Gonzalez qualified for the second round. Gibraltar’s piece for the Adult Solo Modern Female section came in at 22nd and the piece ‘Applause’ entered into the Adult Jazz Groups category, finishing in 16th place, in the quarterfinals.

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HUNGRY MONKEY FOOD ORDERING APP LAUNCHES

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n app dedicated to streamlining the ordering process from food outlets in Gibraltar has recently been added to the iTunes and Google Play app stores, allowing customers to order meals from a currently small selection of eateries, including Pizza Hut, Domino’s, Ramsons and the Waterfront. Hungry Monkey is currently in demo mode but is fully functional, categorising and breaking down each of the food menus for a simple and thorough ordering process. The app offers opening hour details, and additional information on whether the establishments take cards and offer delivery or collection services. Developers are aiming to integrate a big customer satisfaction and service element into the app to aid customers through the entire process.

Developer Mat Caldwell notes that he wishes to build the app for the community, allowing for customers to ‘contact Hungry Monkey directly with any suggestions or

queries they may have which we can relay onto the outlets - removing the need to post needlessly via social media outlets,’ He added, ‘Over time too, we would like to get local charities involved and have some great things in place to raise money for them.’

On the Play Store, the app has an average review of 4 stars, with many of the comments praising the developer for bringing such a service to Gibraltar.

Coming soon to the app are menus from Indian takeaway Khan’s, Marina bay based restaurant Bianca’s, and La Parilla on the Go. Over 500 downloads of the free app have been made thus far. It is powered by London based Preoday, which works on building such apps globally. They claim to be part of ‘an online revolution happening in the hospitality industry’, adding ‘our goal is simple: to help businesses connect directly with their customers.’

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GBC OPEN DAY RAISES RECORD FUNDS

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eld on December 16th 2015, GBC Open Day, the broadcasting channel’s annual Christmas time fundraising effort, drew in an excess of £122,000 this year.

As per tradition, the event kicked off with a marathon Radio Gibraltar Roadshow at the Piazza, which drew in donations throughout the afternoon, raising a total of £42,000 through song dedications called in by the public. The roadshow also kicked off the public auction, which continued over the duration of a couple of days. The roadshow was screened live on television and via GBC’s website.

night, also included annual favourites from GBC, such as the newsroom blooper real, the Newswatch spoof and Ben Lynch’s challenge. Live entertainment was

provided by The Trio and dancers from Stylos and Danza. The Capurro Group donated a car, which was raffled off on the show, and won by Lily Perez.

The final sum, which was established after the Gibraltar Magazine went to print, will be split between local charities throughout the year. This marked a new record for GBC.

In the evening GBC hosts maintained the running count via the live telethon, which featured the usual lighthearted video contributions from local government departments, schools, dance groups, and businesses around the Rock, all of which hosted eclectic events to raise money for the cause. The show, held at the John Mackintosh Hall late into the

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tep-sister and brother, these Cocker Spaniels unfortunately ended up at the GSPCA after their owners divorced. Both are good natured and extremely loving dogs. Bella is 13 and Kiko is 12 years old. They have been together since puppies and are pretty close so they are looking for a caring home to live out their lives together.

Despite their age, they are a jovial and loyal pair.

Both Kiko and Bella are docile and cuddly and are not afraid to approach people. Bella only has one eye but that definitely doesn’t limit her and she makes sure she can do anything just as well as her brother Kiko. Can you give them a home?

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hello there

John Luke Olivera, 19 Storeman/ Messenger, Borders & Coast Guard Agency

Peter Sardeña, 56 Proprietor, Mobility Care Centre

Factory Farming: It’s the cause of pain, suffering and misery, for millions of animals; mainly chickens, turkeys, pigs and cattle. It is a system of rearing livestock using highly intensive methods where animals are confined indoors under strictly controlled poor conditions. It would be great to catch a ride with Marty & Doc Brown from Back to the future and prevent this inhumane activity from ever happening again.

People’s perception of those with disability: By increasing awareness, working against social rejection and eliminating discriminatory employment practices, architectural barriers and inaccessibility to transport, public buildings, shops and tourist sites. Also, by changing the Trade Licensing act to make access to shops a pre requisite and incorporating easy disabled access.

IF YOU COULD GO BACK

Lython Marquez, 20 Administrator, Fiduciary Management LTD

Eduardo Gonzalez, 55 Travel Agent, Elias Travel

Lottery Numbers: I would go back in time and pick the winning euromillion numbers, so that I could spend the rest of my life as a millionaire.

The political situation between Gib & Spain: By avoiding provocation on both sides of the border, and to ensure both cooperate better and build for a better relationship.

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hello there

Jessica Leaper, 38 Wildlife Park Manager, AWCP, Wildlife Gibraltar Ltd

Shehzana Dharamst, 27 I.T. Recruitment Consultant, SRG Europe

Humans relationship with the natural world: It is hard to pinpoint where and how we as humans went so wrong, but the moment at which we became sentient beings, aware of our own existence and power over others would be a good place to start.

Other than that, I would go back to last Tuesday and not leave £60 cash in the machine by mistake!

I’d listen to my mum: I would tell my younger self to listen to my mum and eat veg. I’d also stop leaving everything to the last minute and to drive slower - it’s not worth the risk. Hang on a minute, I think these are my current instructions to myself. I’ll put down the chocolate and get a carrot...

WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?

Eulalia Gibson, 82 Retired

Joanna Soiza, 17 Student, Westside Comprehensive

The whole system: I don’t believe we live a wealthy life due to our selfish and greedy behaviour. Right now, this is hell!

Education System: I believe education should have been developed to teach students various crucial life skills which will help them later on in life rather than subjects which might not apply or help students when they continue in life and obtain a job.

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As usual, I will focus on the situation here here does the time go? As exuding any more enthusiasm and confiin Gibraltar and in the two nations most you read this article, dear dence than I did this time last year? After reader, we will have just all, as regular readers may recall, it has critical to Gibraltar’s economic health – said goodbye to 2015 and been hard to be truly optimistic for several the UK and our closest neighbour Spain.

General elections were held in all three moved into the second half of this decade years because many of the positive feacountries in the course of 2015. The UK – already! Inevitably, the New Year brings tures that preceded the financial crisis no election result last May defied all the opinresolutions – all made in good faith and longer hold true. In fact, with the benefit with well meaning, which, if you’re of hindsight, many of them ion polls and ushered in a majoranything like me, is why we feel ity Conservative government. In Whenever did not in reality hold true It has been Gibraltar, we went to the polls so guilty when most of them have then, but that is ground 1 January hard to be truly on 26 November and returned been broken even before the New we have covered before. comes optimistic for the GSLP-Liberal Alliance with a Year bank holiday weekend has around, I several years... much-improved percentage of come to an end.

Hence, glancing back at confess to the vote. At the time of writing, some of my recent New the Spanish electorate are due to speak Nevertheless, whenever 1 January a feeling of Year commentaries, I see they are renewal... just a few days before Christmas in what comes around, I confess to a peppered with caveats like: “econopromises to be the most fascinating elecfeeling of renewal, of something my doing a bit better financially” … tion in a generation, as the new parties more positive around the corner – a new “still a long way to go” … “we’re certainly Podemos and Citizens seek to break the beginning. As this is the finance column, not out of the woods yet”. So, have we hegemony of the PP and PSOE. I had better restrict myself to financial, finally turned the corner in 2016 or would rather than personal, resolutions, which – I be on safer ground to keep employing the In Gibraltar, the pace of change is clear as we have already agreed – are probably more prudent phraseology that has served to see – not least from an infrastructure already a distant memory anyway. me, as a part-time commentator, so well?

Is the outlook and prognosis really any point of view. All being well, the World different (by which I mean better)?

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finance of the global brand) will open in 2016 and new developments, underway or proposed, are springing up all over the Rock. Unemployment and inflation remain under control and, whilst the overall level of business confidence is difficult to gauge, it is encouraging to see all sorts of new businesses applying for licences in the official Gazette. And more people are visiting Gibraltar. Cruise ship arrivals are up and the airlines have announced increased flight schedules for the year ahead.

The threat posed by extremists on a global basis is all too real...

In the UK, the overall state of the economy is encouraging. Again, there are lower unemployment figures and, although the threat of deflation is still a concern with interest rates so low, the government’s efforts to tackle the deficit seem to having some success. Tax receipts are key to this and, as we all It is encouraging behind the recession” in 2016 know, war has been declared stimulate the economy. Remember though, to see all sorts of and “consolidate its growth.” on all forms of tax evasion. At that goods and services in Gibraltar will new businesses my firm, we welcome these International demand remains now be more expensive to visiting euro applying for initiatives because we have buoyant and it is encouraging to zone residents. always advocated using only licences... note the level of Chinese interest. compliant, legal structures.

It remains to be seen how the new Spanish Any “tax planning” that relies Locally, cross border business with Spain government will work with the newly on secrecy is not really planning at all, as is, of course, greatly affected by the euro re-elected Gibraltar government but, as will be seen over the next couple of years exchange rate. Sterling remains strong I have written many times before, I hope as the OECD’s new Common Reporting against the euro, which is good news for very much that it will be in a positive way Standard comes into force around the local residents because we get more euro for the benefit of all those living on either world. All of this should be good news for for our pound. For local importers, the side of the border the UK Chancellor. costs of goods from Spain – or indeed anywhere in the Euro zone – will So, everything in the garden is Spain appears to be holding its own within have fallen. In recent budgets, The threat of rosy? Not quite – but then let’s the Euro zone, although significant chalGibraltar has reduced, or in face it, it never is. International deflation is lenges remain. There are also hopeful signs some cases eliminated, import still a concern security concerns us far more this in the property market. Spain’s second duty on a wide range of items.

New Year than at any time since with interest largest bank, BBVA, recently forecast that This should encourage spending, the Cold War. The threat posed rates so low... the year would close with house sales which is generally the aim of by extremists on a global basis is, up 10% and that the sector would “leave most European governments to sadly, all too real and 2016 is likely

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finance War has been declared on all forms of tax evasion.

front pages for the time being, to be equally challenging. The volatility in So, as we welcome in 2016, I am Financial the Middle East shows no sign of abating; the situation in Greece is far from relatively bullish about the financial markets stable. And, of course, Brussels neither does the mass migration of people prospects for the year ahead given hate will be dealing with the UK’s fair winds and following seas. But, as from that region. The diplomatic, political and military challenges grow demands for reform with the uncertainty. any sailor will tell you, any number ever more complex. How all this “Brexit” scenario looming of variables could serve to damage Spain will impact us economically and ever larger. This is perhaps the most the vessel or drive us towards inhospitable appears to significant potential predicament facfinancially will no doubt occupy shores. No doubt I may have to address be holding ing Gibraltar in the months ahead. some – although hopefully not all – in several of these columns in the its own year ahead. future columns. In the meantime, on behalf within the of my colleagues at Sovereign in Gibraltar Further afield, we should consider Euro zone... the slowdown in China. Its economy – and there are over 100 of us these days And talking of challenges, the – I would like to wish you all a very happy is still growing but at a significantly wider euro zone remains the and prosperous New Year 2016. I hope slower rate than before. Indeed, all of elephant in the room for Brussels. Portugal your resolutions last well into January – the BRICS economies are suffering to a elected a new government recently on an and beyond! anti-austerity platform and, whilst off our greater or lesser extent. And let us not forget perhaps the greatest economic war of our times – oil. Saudi Arabia’s decision to abandon its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer, and therefore unofficial guarantor of high oil prices, has created havoc as it pursues a strategy Ian Le Breton of deliberate overproduction. Contagion is Managing Director effects have included the crippling of of Sovereign Trust other oil dependent economies such as (Gibraltar) Limited Venezuela and Ecuador. The impact on Russia has the potential to lead to more Tel: +350 200 76173 instability in 2016. And financial markets Email: ilebreton@ hate uncertainty.

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A NEW ENDING “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

- Carl Bard

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to form? 21 days. This is according to Dr grandparents, and yes they did survive Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon of the the great depression, the Second World 1950s, who noticed a strange pattern War and many more trails and tribulations, amongst his patients, that no matter could no longer have total rethe type of operation, it took his call? Be that as it may, evidently, “The older patients 21 days to show to result whilst some seek solitude in the of his surgery. In 1960 he published future, others seek it in the past. I get the better I was.” a book called Psycho-Cybernetics in which he states that “…it requires a What follows every New Year’s minimum of about 21 days for an old menThe cynic in you might well appreciate Eve celebrations is those dreaded New tal image to dissolve and a new one to jell.” the immortal words of Lawrence Peter Year’s Resolutions, and then there is The book went on to sell 30 million copies.

‘Yogi’ Berra an American professional another New Year – the Chinese New Year Since then, however, many researchers baseball player, manager, and coach. And which commences on February 8th. The have disputed the 21 day habit, and de2016 Chinese Year is the Year of the Red yes, the ‘Yogi’ references Yogi Bear the pending on your preference, it could take famed cartoon character of the late 1950s. Monkey, apparently a year in which, those anything from 18 days to 254 days for a dealing with finances, and wanting According to Yogi Bera ‘The “The future to make a change should act with habit to form. future ain’t what it used to be.’

There might well be more truth in ain’t what it extreme caution.

In contemplating your New Year’s his words than you initially realise. used to be.”

Resolutions, according to the Journal of When contemplating New Year’s Clinical Psychology, the top 10 most popResolutions, it is easy to overcomWhen I speak to my grandparents ular New Year’s resolutions, in descending mit oneself. In all that I have read, I have they constantly refer to the good old days. are (10) spend more time with family, (9) learned that New Year’s Resolutions are Here, in Gibraltar, there is a store that sells fall in love, (8) help others achieve their only successful when they become a old guy t-shirts with the tagline ‘The older dreams, (7) quit smoking, (6) learn somehabit. So how long does it take for a habit I get the better I was.’ Could it be that my have always been fascinated by the energy and enthusiasm with which people celebrate New Year’s Eve, as if, when the clock strikes 12, their lives would magically change for the better, and all their troubles would be relegated to a distant past. Why is it that so many people believe in a better future?

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finance thing exciting, (5) stay fit and healthy, (4) enjoy life to the fullest, (3) spend less, save more, (2) get organized, and (1) lose weight.

Being from a financial institution, my focus is of course on financial matters and in researching 10 possible New Financial Year Resolutions, I came across a wonderful piece by Ms. Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, President of the Charles Schwab Foundation. Even though it is a few years old, it is still relevant. Here is a snapshot of what she had to say: 1. Get your financial bearings. Start the New Year by either creating or updating your personal net worth statement. Write down the value of everything you own - savings and investment accounts, car, home, business interests, and personal property. Then, list all your debts mortgage, car loan, credit card balances and student loans. Subtract what you owe from what you own to get your net worth. This gives you the big picture from which you can plan your next steps. It also provides a baseline so you can monitor your progress throughout the year.

2. Develop and stick to a budget. Budgets are only as good as your ability to stick to them. So commit to taking a realistic look at how you spend your money. Itemize your monthly expenses (both essential and discretionary) and subtract them from your income. If you need to cut back, prioritize your spending. Make savings a part of your budget.

Those dealing with finances should act with extreme caution.

5. Control debt. If you completed the first resolution, you know what you owe. Now decide how to handle it. Not all debt is bad (for instance, a mortgage), but paying late fees and interest on credit cards can easily undermine your financial plans. Ideally, no more than 28% of pre-tax income should go toward home debt; no more than 36% should go toward all debt (home, car, credit cards, etc.). Systematically pay off credit card balances by focusing on higher interest cards first. Charge only what you can pay off each month.

6. Build an emergency fund. Strive to keep enough cash to cover three-to-six months’ expenses in an easily accessible account in case of a job loss or illness. And don’t touch the money unless you absolutely have to.

3. Get organized. A simple, easily accessible filing system can make every other resolution easier to keep. First, set up either paper or electronic files for your financial and tax records, putting all your important 7. Save for retirement. Pay yourself first documents (birth certificates, passports, by contributing to a retirement plan. Set a Social Security cards, loan documents, retirement goal and monitor your insurance policies) in a secure progress each year. place. Also, put important “…it requires financial dates on your calena minimum dar, like estimated taxes and 8. Refine your asset allocation. of about 21 property taxes. If you’re retired Market ups and downs can throw days for an old or at least 70 years old, you’ll your portfolio out of sync with mental image to also want to mark required your target mix of stocks, bonds, dissolve and a minimum distributions. and other investment classes. new one to jell.” Check to see if your portfolio still reflects your goals and feelings 4. Set goals. Not hitting your about risk, and buy and sell investments to financial goals? Maybe you need a fresh bring it back in-line if necessary. approach. First, make sure your goals are concrete and achievable. Write down all your goals and put a price tag on each.

9. Review insurance coverage. Make sure Then prioritize and create a realistic you have essentials like health, car and timeline. You may have to crunch numbers homeowners’ or renters’ insurance and and make trade-offs, but with specific and that your coverage is appropriate for your measurable goals in front of you, it will be needs. You might well consider life insureasier to find ways to achieve them. ance if you have dependents.

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10. Create/review your estate plan. If you don’t have an estate plan, make this the year for it. At the very least, set up a will and complete an advance healthcare directive. Review beneficiary designations on your retirement accounts and insurance policies - especially if you’ve had a life change such as a new baby, marriage or divorce.

Whatever the course of action you decide upon, I leave you with A Resolve for Every Morning of the New Year, the New Year’s Resolution from a calendar by Bishop John H. Vincent, 1909, to live by ‘I will this day try to live a simple, sincere and serene life, repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity and self-seeking, cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity and the habit of holy silence, exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust and a child-like trust in God.’ My wish for you for 2016 is that you will be able to start making a better brand new ending.

Callie Lombard is writing in her own capacity and none of the above is intended to express the views or opinions of Barclays Bank PLC.

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KNEW/NEW & KNOW / NO – it’s not an Economic Estimation, Prediction or Forecast

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ust as confusing and complicated as the English language can be – knew opposed to new and know opposed to no – so too can Economics. As an Economist, there is nothing more freighting than being asked as for an opinion (estimation, prediction and forecast) as to what the future holds – there are simply too many variables to provide an informed answer.

That is why any Economist worth their salt would, when faced with such a question, provide a two word response: ‘it depends’, before proceeding with extreme caution.

For possibly the single biggest chink in Economists’ armour is that they assume rationality of all economic role-players, and you know that its danger lies in the word’s construction, for it is said that to assume, makes an ass out of u and me.

Those Economists brave enough to offer an opinion (estimation, prediction and forecast) without any caveat, are constantly reminded of their failure. Laurence J. Peter, best known for his formulation of 26

the Peter Principle said that ‘An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.’

The Peter Principle postulates that ‘In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to their own level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his/ her duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their own level of incompetence.’

When accepting the offer to contribute to the magazine, I decided that I would not be tempted to speculate, or offer any opinion on the future of the Gibraltar economy. Rather, I decided to write on that which I knew and not what new I was expecting, for what I knew, I know and no, I do not know what the future holds for the

Gibraltar economy any more than you do.

Peter Drucker, considered the father of management theory having recently died at the age of 95, said that ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it’. As an Economist that does not possess a crystal ball (the last one broke, don’t’ ask how), what I can offer is my observations, my opinions, which might well not concur with yours, but then these are mine.

In learning about the economics of Gibraltar, there are two key publications that you need to acquire. One which costs £5 and one free. One which is recent 2015/2016 and one which is a bit dated 2013 – the 2014 edition expected soon. In addition to the two documents, the 2015 Budget also provides valuable information and insights. The value in Economics lies in the triangulation of these documents. A challenge in working with the publication is that one presents the information for a calendar year and the other two for financial years.

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economy When studying these publications you need to ensure that you understand the terminology used, for instance, such as estimation, prediction and forecasting, which, contrary to popular belief, are not mutually exhaustive and collectively exhaustive terms. Though they might look like synonyms, they are not. An estimation is the calculated approximation of a result.

This result might be a forecast but not necessarily. For example, I can estimate the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at factor cost by assuming the gross value of domestic output, which is one of the three elements in the calculation of the GDP. A prediction is simply saying something about the future, and is usually focused on outcomes and not the pathway to those outcomes. For example, I could predict that by 2025 all motor vehicles in Gibraltar would be electric motors. A forecast is simply the process of providing explanations of the pathways to an outcome.

Then, there is also the dreaded average.

Though some might argue its value, I am reminded of the following, its origin, which is unknown – ‘If you have your one foot in a bucket of boiling hot water and another foot in a bucket of ice cold water, on average you ought to feel pretty comfortable.’

Two soldiers, both statisticians, were fighting side by side in a battlefield.

They spotted an enemy soldier and they both fired their rifles. One statistician soldier fired one foot to the left of the enemy soldier and the other statistician soldier fired one foot to the right of the enemy soldier.

They immediately gave each other a high five and exclaimed, ‘on average the enemy soldier is dead!’

Gibraltar has a population of 32,194 people, its economy offer 24,422 jobs, and there are 190 unemployed people.

Its estimated GDP per capita is £50,941, with the GDP for the last financial year 2014/15 forecast by the Statistics Office at £1.64 Billion, which represents a GDP growth of 10.3%. It is understood that the GDP is estimated at factor cost, also called ‘net product’ or ‘net value added’ method, which consists of three stages: namely (i) Estimating the gross value of domestic output; (ii) Determining the intermediate consumption, i.e., the cost of material, supplies, and services used to produce final goods or services; and (iii) Deducting intermediate consumption from gross value to obtain the net value of domestic output.

For the past three financial years, the economy had an average growth rate of over 10% per annum in nominal terms, as a consequence Gibraltar continues to rank GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

among the fastest growing economies in the World. According to the 2015 Budget ‘the main drivers for this positive growth are primarily the continuing increases in employment and turnover in the online gaming and financial services industries, and the increased levels of construction in the economy with the private sector now taking more of the lead in that respect.’

The 2015 Budget also identifies another ‘great driver of economic growth’, the establishment of an entirely safe Liquified Natural Gas storage, regasification and bunkering facility, which is considered ‘the beginning of a new industry for Gibraltar which, given current predictions, is likely to dominate the maritime transport industry in coming years.’

But, it is not only GDP growth that is important, what is most important is the distribution of such growth, in other words, to what extent Gibraltarians’ lives are improving – that they are better off than before. The measure of this – a most unsatisfactory measure for an Economist – is through an average. Still considering this, the average annual earnings was £23,575 in 2010, which by 2014 increased to £28,244. That amounts to a nominal increase of 19.8% since 2011, or a 6.3% real increase (inflation for the same period was 13.5%). [The main difference between nominal value and real values is that real values are adjusted for inflation, while nominal values are not.]

As the means of the people in Gibraltar increase, so too does their ability to contribute to the future growth of Gibraltar through the payment of taxation. The overall government’s revenue for 2015/16 is estimated at £559.6 million (compared to £571.3 million for 2014/15). Income tax is estimated to account for £232.5 million or 42% of overall government revenue. Income tax, personal income tax accounts for 61.72% of the income taxes.

It simply means that Gibraltarians as a collective pay more taxes than companies do.

Overall government expenditure for 2015/16 is estimated at £541.5 million, or an estimated budget surplus of £18.1 million. Can you guess the single biggest consolidated fund expenditure? It is health, which accounts for £97.1 million or 21.43% of the overall consolidated fund expenditure. As a collective, health (21.43%), utilities (13.37%), education (9.89%) and business, employment and social security (5.91%) account for 50.60% of the overall consolidated fund expenditure. A personal concern of mine lies

with health expenditure, for instance, here I question as to whether cigarette related (or self-inflicted) health conditions should even qualify or be paid for by the Gibraltar government. Since smoking has been closely tied to a battery of serious illnesses, including cancer (especially lung cancer), heart disease, hypertension, stroke, emphysema, and other respiratory illnesses and complications, insurance companies should charge smokers higher premiums than they do to non-smokers. If you believe that it is your right to smoke, and that you should be free to do so, then you should also feel free to make a financial contribution for the external cost that you impose on non-smokers, and also not expect non-smokers to financially contribute towards maintaining your health, even though you have no desire to do so yourself. In economics, we have a term for it to ‘internalise external costs’.

An issue of concern when studying the estimates of revenue and expenditure 2015/16 is that from 2013 to 2015, estimated net public debt increased by 29.63% to £375.4 million. It should be qualified by the type of debt that is being incurred. If it is to acquire appreciating assets such as property, it is fine, but if it is to support a lifestyle, then it is not. Even though the Gibraltar economy might be masking the fact the world economy remains under pressure, it has not recovered from the 2009 financial crisis. In recent years, the government had made substantial investment in infrastructure such as housing and accommodation, which cannot be expected to continue unabatedly.

In my view – it is not a forecast or prediction – the challenge for the Gibraltar economy in the 2016 calendar year is to not only sustain economic growth from existing engines of growth, but to also define and introduce additional growth engines – the government has offered Liquified Natural Gas storage, regasification and bunkering facility. Since Gibraltar does not operate in a vacuum, changes in the international (external) economic development (these could happen very quickly and even without warning) need to be monitored closely, and their potential impact managed and as best possible minimised.

As a parting wish for 2016, may your hair, your teeth, your face-lift your abs and your sticks not fall; and may your blood pressure, your triglycerides, your cholesterol, your white blood count and your mortgage interest rates not rise. My real wish for you, that you have a blessed and prosperous new year.

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WORKFORCE OF TOMORROW The three elements at play

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client of mine (let’s call him Jerome) approached me last week. “Shehz” he said “I need your help.”

“What’s up Jerome?” I say.

The problem is that the workplace is changing.

“We desperately need to develop a new mobile app and quite frankly Bob (not his real name) is just not hacking it. Can you find us someone? You have a week.”

Ahhh! So, you see the problem. Bob (not his real name) has been with the company for five or six years; good skills, intelligent, earns his keep but hasn’t adapted. To make matters worse, he thinks he’s in line for a promotion. Can’t move him up. Can’t move him out. Need to get someone else in. And quick.

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skills, but now out of place.

The problem is that the workplace is changing. There are three very powerful forces in play that are changing the way we work.

ed to be undertaken near its sales market can now be located almost anywhere.

Where can it be done cheaper or better?

And it’s not just low-level jobs that are moving. By 2020 the global workforce will have something in the region of 400 to 500 million additional skilled workers.

Three super-trends

There is a thirst for education and training coupled with a hunger to move from the As you know, we are slap bang in the have-nots to the haves that is unstoppamiddle of a technological revolution. How ble. Again, fantastic opportunities abound many jobs has software replaced? How are but threats everywhere. You better have algorithms unearthing surprising correlathe right people on board. tions in Big Data? My phone now knows more about my likes and dislikes then my The third super-trend is demographmum does. Barriers to entry ics. The two fastest growing areas in into markets are being not We are slap workforce participation are women just lowered but are being bang in the and the over fifties. Women are insmashed apart – think Uber. middle of a creasingly breaking through the glass How will all this affect your technological ceiling into managerial positions. We business and your job? I don’t (women that is) have very different know but I do know that it will. revolution... methods of working, communication and leadership to men. Janet Yellen is a The second major force is globalisation.

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business Jerome needs someone with a high Psycap - someone who is optimistic, confident and, perhaps most importantly, resilient.

That ability to bounce back. He now needs someone who is willing to risk treading new paths, to experiment with new ideas and to be able to bounce back and keep trying even if they experience set-backs.

The workforce of tomorrow needs to be adaptable, willing to accept and work with change. Long gone are the days when management consultants would advise companies to develop five year plans.

Engaging Bob

predecessor, Ben Bernanke. Or just compare Christine Legarde or Angela Merkel to Donald Trump or Silvio Burlusconi – ok, ok I know not a fair comparison but you know what I mean.

Long gone are the days when a woman had to have more testosterone than men in the workplace to have any chance of succeeding. Also, the workplace is ageing as European birth rates decline and pension pots shrink.

More recently, Social Capital has emerged.

This has coincided with the flattening of management structures, the emergence of women in the workforce and the trend away from industry and towards service.

Contacts, relationships, teamwork and networks become the key to success.

Psycap – a term coined by Fred Luthans, a leading management academic – is all about those inner resources that The workforce characterise individuals who will thrive in tomorrow’s workof tomorrow place. These are people who What does this all mean? It means needs to be will not only cope but be able to that Bob (not his real name) who adaptable. drive through the changes that might have been ideal for the job organisations need to go through five years ago with great HTML to survive. They have the ability to cope and Java skills is no longer right for the job with the diversity of the workforce and to today. How are you meant to recruit the interact with different cultures that often right person today when the job might be so different in five years time? Who knows, coexist in an increasingly global network. by then, the machines may be doing a lot of the programming themselves.

Psychological Capital Well, a concept that I have found very useful is that of Psychological Capital – “Psycap”. Let me put that into context for you. To do this, let’s turn the clock back 100 years.

Is the problem solely with Bob (not his real name)? Is it his fault that he has not adapted and is unwilling to change? Perhaps not.

The other key concept for the workplace of tomorrow is Employee Engagement.

Drawing a distinction between owner and worker, between white collar and blue collar and between employer and employee is becoming increasingly blurred and unhelpful. As the workforce inevitably moves up the skills chain, the need for Engagement becomes increasingly important. If Bob simply feels not really connected with the success of the company, his willingness to adapt and embark on new strategies will be limited. There is a huge responsibility when recruiting to ensure that the joiner will feel engaged and very much an integral part of the organisation.

So Jerome, let’s look for someone who not only has the right skills but has the right Psycap too. Let’s also try to re-engage Bob.

There is a huge responsibility when recruiting...

A century ago, what was important was Economic Capital. Corporations were formed from capital contributions and employed people who were little more than cogs in an industrial wheel. Highly hierarchical male dominated structures needing a workforce that was compliant with initiative and creativity not much sought after.

Much of the world is still in this era.

Fifty years on, the world had changed.

Women were in the workforce but in subservient roles. Lots of management tiers were in place where education, skills and knowledge became valued. This is the age of Human Capital.

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WHO’S THE BOSS? Female leaders in numbers

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he start of a new year is always a good time to re-focus on career development. For many companies the new calendar year is also a new financial year, with new targets and objectives to achieve. It is a good starting point to planning your advancement strategy at work and deciding on some personal career building steps for the coming year so that by next Christmas, it will be your name on the promotion list!

Gibraltar (2012), reveals that out of 2,560 Managers & Senior Officials in Gibraltar, 1,823 are males and only 737 are females.

In those countries, This means that out it is often the of all managerial and women who have senior positions in better access to Gibraltar only 29% education... are held by women.

This figure is even lower for women in CEO positions, with only 196 out of 987 CEOs being Climbing up the women (equal to 20%). The situation But climbing up the management is somewhat better in the public secmanagement ladder is not ladder is not a tor, with 42% of Government Senior a simple task, especially simple task...

Official positions held by women. for women. Gibraltar has When comparing Gibraltar to other a rather male-dominated countries, however, we can see that society with some of its laws, particularly it is positioned somewhere in the middle those regarding immigration and resisection, where most other European coundency, being male-centric. It is therefore tries are. Surprisingly, it is in developing not surprising to see that the number of countries such as Jamaica and Colombia women in managerial positions in Gibraltar where the highest percentage of women in is significantly lower than the number of managerial positions had been recorded, as males. A quick look at the Employment illustrated by the chart on the right. section of the recent Population Census of

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The reason why the highest percentage of women at managerial positions is actually found in Emerging Economies rather than in the Developed Economies is that in those countries, it is often the women who have better access to education than the men and are thus able to advance their careers faster than the men.

Academics and analysts have been examining to what extent more gender balance in management teams and boards actually improves business performance and if the “bottom line” is negatively affected when all decision-makers are men only. Several important studies have concluded that women’s participation in decision-making is positive for business outcomes, though some indicated there might not be a direct causal link. A 2011 report by the U.S organisation Catalyst, found that Fortune 500 companies with the most women on their boards outperformed those with the least by 26% on return on invested capital. Globally, while women have greatly GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

business Percentage Percentage of of female female managers managers at at selected selected countries countries 59.3% 59.3%

Jamaica Jamaica Colombia Colombia

53.1% 53.1% 52.3% 52.3%

Saint Lucia Lucia Saint Philippines Philippines

47.6% 47.6% 47.4% 47.4%

Panama Panama USA USA

34.2% 34.2% 32.2% 32.2%

UK UK Norway Norway

30.0% 30.0% 29.0% 29.0%

Spain Spain Gibraltar* Gibraltar* Denmark Denmark Malta Malta

18.0% 18.0% 15.8% 15.8%

Luxembourg Luxembourg Cyprus Cyprus

28.4% 28.4% 27.0% 27.0%

11.1% 11.1%

Japan Japan

increased their share of management jobs over the last two decades, all data sources and analyses report a continuing scarcity of women in top decision making positions, as CEOs and board members, as shown by the chart below:

Source: International Labour Organisation, 2015 (based on 2012 data) Based on data from Gibraltar Census 2012

The situation is not much better in politics: In 2014, just 18 women were heads of state globally, and women were only 23% of all elected parliamentarians worldwide.

In Gibraltar too, there is only one female minister in Government.

Percentage of board seats held by women (2014) >20%

42.7% 42.7%

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Finland

Australia

Belgium

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Brazil

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Canada

China

India

UK

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Japan

France

Hong Kong

Kuwait

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Mexico

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Turkey

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Singapore

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USA

Spain

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Thailand Source: Catalyst Inc. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quick Take: Women on Boardsâ&#x20AC;?, 2014 GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

A number of countries have recently moved to legislate controversial mandatory quotas for women on company boards, with Norway being the first. The EU is currently considering extending these to its member states with a draft Gender Directive still under consideration by the European Council of Ministers. Other countries have adopted a variety of measures to promote more women in management, such as inclusion of gender diversity requirements and reporting in corporate governance codes, codes of conduct, voluntary targets and cooperative initiatives between business and government.

However, for the time being, in Gibraltar, the glass ceiling is cracked but still intact.

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GIBRAEL IN MOTION Linking Gibraltar and Israel through innovation

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n the ever-evolving world of technolBoth Ayelet and Eran relocated to Gibraltar published a magazine called Gibraltar: ogy innovation, very few elements from Israel almost nine years ago, to work Gateway to Europe. This special publication, remain constant. Through the power at big corporations with bases on the Rock. mostly in Hebrew, is being distributed to of networking and excellent exposure, Over a year ago, they initiated Benefit over twenty-eight countries around the world, including all the Israeli Chambers of the freshly launched Gibrael (Gibraltar Business Solutions, a company which acts Commerce and Business clubs. It showcasIsrael Chamber of Commerce) is forging as a business accelerator and consultant relationships between Gibraltar for emerging ventures. They provide es Gibraltar, covering the various sectors and the impressive technology coaching and consultancy services, of the economy such as tourism, finance, “We’re always with the help of a huge network movement in Israel. The masshipping, eBusiness and real estate as well trying to put as the history and culture of Gibraltar. terminds behind the project of useful contacts. The two also Gibraltar on We’re always trying to put Gibraltar on the are power couple and patriotic head a weekly newsletter called map.’ Both agree that the recently initiated Israeli Gibraltar dwellers Ayelet the map.”

The Beneficiary Newsletter, which and Eran Shay. The Chamber explores Gibraltar within the global AmCham (America Gibraltar Chamber of evolved from an Israeli Business Club market and addresses matters of consumer Commerce), headed by Hassans’ James Lasry, has served as a model for Gibrael.

Ayelet initiated in Gibraltar over the sumawareness. They touch on topics such as mer. Falling under the title of a Chamber finance, education, retail, nationalism and ‘We thought the name expresses our feeling towards both Gibraltar and of Commerce, Ayelet says they are able issues that, whilst global, are also to more easily link Israelis to Gibraltar on relevant locally. ‘This is our contri- “We feel half Israel. We feel half Gibraltarian and a global scale, through all the other Israeli bution to the community,’ they tell Gibraltarian half Israeli,’ Ayelet admits. Much of Chambers of Commerce. This title also me. The newsletter is accessible their time is spent travelling around and half the world, working as consultants allows anyone and everyone to join the to everyone, free of charge.

Israeli...” group, and not just Israelis. In its infancy, and acting as ambassadors for the Rock, spreading the word about the the Chamber has received blessings from ‘Because we see a lot of potenthe Israeli Embassy in the UK, the Israeli advantages it offers for businesses. During tial from all over the world for Gibraltar Government and the local Government. trips to Australia and Israel, Ayelet has to be used as a technology hub, we also 32

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business also carried out radio interviews about the The two also touch on smart city soluChamber launch, with leading stations. The tions, which Ayelet has alluded to before, project has received incredible within the very pages of this magmedia attention since its soft azine. ‘Again, Gibraltar could be a “We’re also launch in late October. great testing ground for this, given looking at green its small size,’ Eran says. ‘My vision energy solutions is to see Gibraltar in ten years time Targeting a niche market for and clean-tech as a smart city.’ So why have they Gibraltar companies.” chosen to target this market? ‘We think this is what is missing here in Although the official launch Gibraltar; the finance sector is very was postponed, due to a recent wave of much developed. We think that this is a terrorist attacks in Israel which prevented sector that, while it is not very developed leading political and business figures from here, many others can feed off the prodvisiting the Rock, they are by no means ucts that come along with it. Technology behind in their plans for the future of the can be applied to all other sectors.’ Eran Chamber. With an air of assurance and discusses online e-commerce competiconfidence Ayelet tells me, ‘everybody’s own sources and be creative. That’s why tion for local retailers, noting that certain very involved in this project, we recently it became a start-up nation.’ Eran notes technologies they have been looking into organised a high-tech seminar in Gibraltar, that whilst Israel is hugely successful in could offer retailers the ability to adapt showcasing the innovation that Israel can developing their ideas, they often find ‘in a much more effective way’.

One such offer. These companies were very much it difficult to market internationally. We technology he comments on is the use of interested in hearing how Gibraltar can briefly discuss the benefits of Gibraltar’s pragmatic web which allows customers to be used as a gateway to Europe for them.’ regulatory and taxation framework, which search through online inventories using The market the Chamber is targeting is draw in so much outside business to sets of preferences rather niche for Gibraltar, whilst there is much the Rock’s already thriving sectors. than the endless drop-down work already done in drawing business “My vision is to menus thus helping to ento Gibraltar within the realms of financial In forming the Chamber, Ayelet and hance customer experience. see Gibraltar services and gaming, Ayelet and Eran are in ten years Eran have liaised with the Gibraltar working with a number of Israeli comtime as a Chamber of Commerce, ‘we think panies involved in developing financial Israeli innovations they are important here in Gibraltar; smart city.” technology, which encompasses anything it’s not just the Governments we from foreign exchange trading platforms, It is fascinating to hear liaise with. Part of our aim is that any peer to peer lending, and payment proabout some of the bigger and better company that is formed here as a result cessing solutions. ‘We’re also looking at known innovations that came to light in of Gibrael also becomes a member of the green energy solutions and clean-tech Israel, such as the flash drive (USB stick), Gibraltar Chamber. We like to make sure companies,’ Eran explains, ‘already, there WiFi, drip irrigation, instant messaging, that when we go out and market Gibraltar, are a number of companies, both from solar water heaters and even Cherry we all have the same interests. We are Israel and other nations, that are using tomatoes. ‘Gibraltar is a place that is very very aware of the needs that members of Gibraltar as a place to try and test their thirsty for innovative ideas. We saw so the Gibraltar Chamber have, for example, technologies. The Government of Gibraltar much natural potential between the two retailers, and we try and bring technology has already signed an agreement with one places.’ The two admit that there are other companies and solutions that can assist CleanTech company that produces energy similarities between the Rock and Israel, their needs.’ Ever busy with their work, the from sea-waves. We’re also looking at wind particularly the diversity of the commutwo look forward to future developments energy; and there is another company that nities that make up both places. ‘There is for the Chamber, and bringing together is looking at generating energy and water a prominent Jewish community here, in the two places they love the most. from the cloud condensation in the air. We Gibraltar, which already have very good could have some solution towards getting ties with Israel.’ They note that both places Ayelet & Eran rid of the levanter! We’re also talking about are also extremely patriotic and have presenting CM biotechnology and promoting the Gibraltar proved strategic geographic locations with Gibrael’s hospital as a place for testing medical throughout history. ‘In the same way as new flagship Gibraltar, Israel cannot

devices, although nothing intrusive.’ They magazine rely on their neighbours speak of their open door discussions with for the supply of water, the Government, who has welcomed all electricity and so the initiatives they have brought to them. on. This has meant Gibrael’s seminars, which will continue that we have had throughout 2016, are entirely open to the to develop our public, allowing them to gain an insight into the booming technology industry that they are so eager to bring to Gibraltar.

“We could ‘We’re really looking forward to 2016 have some being full of technology and information and lots of things we want to bring in solution to Gibraltar. We started hosting these towards seminars even before Gibrael. We initially getting brought in from Israel a doctor in internarid of the tional taxation.’

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2016 TOP SIX PREDICTIONS and 2015 results

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raditionally, January is the month for making predictions for the year ahead. Never one to miss an opportunity, here’s some serious and less serious predictions for 2016. As ever, the verdict will follow in 12 months’ time.

1. Property prices

I predict static house prices in all sectors other than the below £500k...

Property prices have risen well ahead of inflation in recent years. That’s largely because between 2010 and 2015 hardly any properties have been built yet demand for new property continues year on year. 9,000 workers commute into Gibraltar daily, if only 10% or 20% would prefer to live in Gibraltar, that’s up to 1,800 new properties needed. This year Beachview Terraces and Mons Calpe Mews will see 900 new occupants from the local market. None of the larger scale open market properties will be finished however, so those needing property now, 34

will have to pay for it as the supply remains limited. I predict static house prices (in line with the recently published 0% inflation rate in Gibraltar) in all sectors other than the below £500k price bracket where there will still be price growth.

2. Rental prices

which is so much cheaper albeit more burdensome. I doubt rents will increase much more other than at the cheaper end, ie below £1,500 pcm where there is still excess demand.

3. Stamp duty

In the UK, stamp duty keeps being hiked.

The latest attack is an additional 3% Tenants have suffered from above stamp duty on second homes or buy to let average rent rises for some years properties. Investors could soon fall out now. It’s hard to see how that will of love with the UK and this will impact ease unless there is a reduction in demand or an increase in supply. supply in the rental market. I do not think The increase in supply is on its way with we have an issue with investors owning second homes here in Gibraltar.

Midtown and Plata Villa underWe do have buy to let investors way whilst West One, Quay 29, I doubt rents though and it is a vibrant market.

Ocean Spa Plaza and Imperial will increase Given the migratory nature of the Spa Plaza will all start on site in much more 2016. However, this supply will employee pool in Gibraltar, we need not impact the rental market other than at to maintain a large supply of rental properties. Hence, I do not think in 2016. On the demand side, the cheaper there will be any material increase many would be tenants have end... in stamp duty. no choice but to opt for Spain GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

property 4. Estate Agent’s Code of Conduct We now have one! The first piece of estate agency specific legislation in Gibraltar came into effect in October. However, awareness amongst consumers needs to be much higher and the Office of Fair Trading needs to start publicising what they are now administering. Will the Code make a difference to the shenanigans in our industry? I think so and hope so.

Expect an improvement in standards all round.

I do not 5. FC Brunos Magpies

think there will be any material increase in stamp duty.

We entered into the world of football sponsorship last year beginning an association with local second division side FC Brunos Magpies. It’s been quite a success with many clients coming along to watch the games and we have, without doubt, the largest and noisiest fan base in the second division. I’m not going to tempt fate by predicting promotion, however, I do predict that we will extend our deal into the 2016/17 season as the journey thus far has been a whole lot of fun. If you haven’t sampled an FC Brunos Magpies game before, why not give it a go? Easy to find the team on Facebook and Twitter.

6. West Ham

Expect an improvement in standards all round.

It’s an exciting year ahead with the last game ever at Upton Park and the first game at the Olympic Stadium. At the time of writing we are drifting down the premier league as we suffer from the loss of some key players. However, I believe in Slaven Bilic so we will finish in the top ten.

PREDICTIONS & VERDICTS 2015 1. Residential property Prediction: Residential rents will continue to rise albeit at a lower rate of increase than the last two years, and that residential property prices will flatten out demonstrating investors’ switch to off plan.

Verdict: Probably about right albeit prices at the cheaper end are still rising.

5. Estate agency regulation Prediction: My great aunt Daisy could become an estate agent overnight in Gibraltar if she wanted to as the industry is unregulated. My bullish prediction for 2015 is that a code of conduct is adopted.

Verdict: Bang on! The Office of Fair Trading introduced a new estate Agent’s Code of Conduct in October 2015. Slowly and surely, there should be an improvement in standards within our industry.

2. Commercial property Prediction: Rents on quality units will be pushed higher as the supply of quality offices is so limited in Gibraltar.

6. West Ham Prediction: Europe may be a stretch too far, but we can always dream.

Verdict: Right again as rents are now surpassing £400 per sq m per annum in Ocean Village.

Verdict: We qualified but were quickly eliminated by an unknown Romanian side!

3. Property development Prediction: Good year to be a builder!

Good year to be an estate agent.

On behalf of all of us at Chesterton, I wish all the Gibraltar Magazine readers a healthy, happy and successful 2016.

Verdict: Delighted to confirm that I got this right. Loads of building activity after five years of nothing.

4. Stamp Duty Prediction: A progressive form of stamp duty as opposed to the current “cliff-edge” approach. Properties sold at £199,999 in Gibraltar attract zero stamp duty. Those sold at £200,000 attract stamp duty of £4k. I believe Gibraltar will follow the UK this year as the current system is unfair.

Mike Nicholls is Managing Director of Chesterton Gibraltar Tel: +350 200 67434 Email: mike.nicholls@ chesterton.gi

Verdict: Failed.

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JOIN VEGANUARY New year, new, improved lifestyle

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recipes and discounts on vegan cookbooks. love a movement; a musical movement, and enjoyable as possible.’ The non-profit a political movement, an environmenorganisation assists Veganuary joiners Veganuary boasts the support of some of tal movement, a crusade even… this every step of the way, offering advice on the biggest brand names in vegan foods, January has kick started foods to eat, reading packaged food and other vegan and humane movements with a movement to try veg- Veganuary labels and picking out animal by-prodlike Nakd, Ten Acre, The Vegan Society and Animal Aid. Since its inception, 16,000 anism for the duration of the ucts, cooking on a budget, dining out promotes month. Much like ‘Stoptober’ with confidence, answering questions people have taken part in Veganuary, an element has taken the UK by storm, on veganism, and more. Whilst the with 49% remaining vegan six months of health, influencing individuals to propelling force for Veganuary is the on. The group estimates that this has without much ethical element of cutting out meat completely cut out alcohol resulted in 1,596,180 animals’ lives being sacrifice... saved. Initially, the campaign was very well for the month of October, and animal products, it also promotes Veganuary promotes an ringing in the new year with dedication, received with over 3,300 people signing element of health, without much sacrifice knowledge of how to eat healthily, self up and massively exceeding the founders’ (it’s only for a month!). Often people feel restraint, new challenges, and developing expectations. ‘It all started with a wine-fuelled conversation back in 2013! We’d so much healthier by the end of the month a better personal relationship with food, that they continue on their pledge indefparticularly for those who find it hard to talked a lot about the best way we could help animals and we knew monthly initely. The campaign was initiated in the restrain and make conscious UK is January 2014, starting online, but decisions to eat non processed pledges were a great way of changThis has gaining rapid growth through an impressive and sugar/ salt filled foods. ing people’s habits,’ founder Jane resulted in following and fierce social media presence. explains. The project blew up globally, 1,596,180 Veganuary founder, Jane Land states that with support coming from such far A global reach animals’ lives reaching corners as the US, Australia the movement is ‘dedicated to changing being saved... and South Africa. International media public attitudes, while providing all the The campaign’s Facebook information and practical support required even took notice, picking up the campage has almost 30,000 to make the transition to veganism as easy paign in a similar fashion to the Movember followers, offering up interesting facts and GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

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lifestyle a far wider array of foods. Other health benefits include lower risk of heart disease, as eggs and dairy products often contain saturated fat. Sign up statistics state that 61% attribute their dietary change due to animal cruelty, 32% say it is for health reasons and 7% want to help the environment. Jane comments, ‘A concern, or love, for animals is still the number one motivating factor in choosing to go vegan.

As more people become aware of the reality for animals in meat, dairy and egg production, we should, therefore, see an increase in the numbers choosing to make the change.’

Vegans have a healthier Body Mass Index...

Veganuary founder Matthew’s story of turning vegan begins with him lamenting movement. Veganuary founders claim how he didn’t know of any other vegans to be ‘holding people’s hands virtually at the time, so had nowhere to turn to through the whole process’, their aim for for advice. ‘I trawled the internet for 2016 is ‘to make veganism mainstream’ information and found there was with a target of 50,000 participants. New more about why to go vegan than to 2016 is the Vegan Starter Kit, offering how,’ Matthew laments, ‘Even in the newbies a thorough insight into all things relatively short time I’ve been vegan, vegan, from shopping lists, baking tips, I’ve noticed the options have increased meal plans and label reading guides, those though. So, if I do forget my lunch, I’ll that sign up can even send off for a £10 never starve!’ In 2011 Matthew physical starter kit that brings a selecwatched a video called The tion of snacks to help ease newcomers video the meat industry doesn’t want you into their vegan adventure. Jane stresses to see. He had been a vegetarian for ten that they are really making veganism easy years but made the shift after discovering with such strong support. Having such a ‘the cruelty involved in egg and dairy prowelcoming and helpful community behind duction’. Jane met Matthew in 2012 and them is surely the secret behind made the change from vegetarian the movement’s success, and the Their aim to vegan. ‘I found the confidence reason why so many of those to extend that compassion for for 2016 that sign up stick to their new animals to dairy cows and layer is ‘to make lifestyles and choose to maintain hens. I knew that veganism was veganism it even after the month ends. the right choice, but I had thought mainstream’... I’d find it too difficult to follow. I All the money raised through was wrong. Yes, I had to do a little donations is directed towards spreading more preparation when eating away from their online campaign, which has certainly home, but this was nothing in comparison proved a cost effective method of reaching to the suffering I was reducing.’ people globally. In outlining the main benefits of abstaining from meat and animal Addressing the myths by-products, campaign founders, Jane and Matthew say that on average, vegans The Veganuary website addresses some have a healthier Body Mass Index due of the bigger myths associated with to following a more effective weight loss adopting a plant-based diet. One of the regime than low fat diets. Participants in more common questions vegans face is former years praised the ability to eat more about receiving enough protein. ‘This is food as a vegan, often experimenting with a complete untruth,’ the website states,

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explaining that green vegetables, nuts, pulses and grains are all natural sources of protein. Additionally, it seeks to put to bed the notion that humans are omnivores, meant to eat both meat and plants.

‘Obligate omnivores are designed to kill, rip apart and digest raw flesh using only their teeth, and they’re very good at it.

Not only are humans physically incapable of doing this, but it would also make us extremely ill in the process. By comparison, we thrive on a plant-based diet including a mix of fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and whole grains. We are not obligate omnivores so we don’t need to eat animals.’ The suggestion that vegan food is all bland and boring is dismissed completely, through the suggestion that most cuisines have vegan options and many non vegan dishes can be altered slightly to be made vegan.

The Veganuary website offers a host of recipes from a vast spectrum of worldly cuisines, including Mexican, Chinese, Italian, Greek, and of course Middle Eastern, which is a cuisine praised for its use of animal free ingredients, offering vegans two of their dietary staples; falafel and hummus. The suggestion that vegan food is boring is the biggest faux pas of them all, even Jamie Oliver’s website offers a delicious selection of veganified dishes.

The website also dismisses the suggestion that all vegans must take supplements to maintain a varied diet. They only suggest that both vegans and everyone else ensure they are consuming enough vitamin B12.

Interestingly, the Veganuary website opens our eyes to an eclectic host of celebrities that actually follow a vegan lifestyle, we probably weren’t aware of. UK comedian Russell Brand made the shift from vegetarian to full vegan recently, after watching the film Forks Over Knives, which follows American studies into cultures that eat plant based diets and prove to be significantly healthier than others. Other vegan actors include Emily Deschanel, Ellen DeGeneres, Alec Baldwin, Arian Grande, Jared Leto and Samuel L Jackson.

Dismissing the notion that veganism is not a healthy choice for professional athletes, the page includes profiles of Venus and

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Serena Williams, world-class tennis players, David Haye, professional boxer, and NFL player David Carter. More interestingly, the website features a section dedicated to everyday people who tried Veganuary and have seen an incredible improvement in their Participants lifestyle, particularly in in former their health and through years praised weight loss.

Vegan in Gib

the ability to eat more food as a vegan...

Here, in Gibraltar, the selection of vegan options at local eateries is steadily growing. Lunch options range from Nosha’s Healthy Options’ quinoa wraps, sweet potato filled with roasted veg, and vegan lasagne; veggie burger plus

¿WHY VEGAN? 1. FOR THE ANIMALS Animals are sentient beings. They feel emotions and pain, as well as happiness. Pigs are smarter than dogs. The mass production of animals for food and clothing has resulted in an industry that cares little for their well-being, and causes them to suffer in innumerable ways. Two of the worst culprits are the dairy and egg industries. Research tells us that chickens probably suffer the most miserable existence of all factory farmed animals.

Dairy cows have their calves removed from them only hours after giving birth, after being forcibly impregnated to ensure they produce milk. Like any mother, they grieve. So too do their young.

2. FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Emissions are generated through land use: clearing land to graze animals and to grow the crops to feed them. Energy is also used in keeping the animals alive, slaughtering them, and the transportation involved in these processes. As well

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falafel-hummus wrap at Bean and Gone Cafe and also Verdi Verdi; vegetable sushi from Wasabi, The Atlantic and Saki, and traditional Spanish pisto at Sacarello’s. On a Sunday, head to The Royal Calpe for a carvery, load up the plate with all the roasted vegetables for close to half the price without the meat. New to Irish Town, LPH also offers vegan options which change daily and the Gibraltar Confectionary bakes fresh calentita. To cater to your sweet tooth, Sain’t Café often bakes homemade vegan cupcakes. Local supermarkets Eroski and Morrisons have added more vegan meat alternatives to their stock also. My personal favourites are Fry’s Golden Crumbled Schnitzels, which genuinely taste of chicken kievs, Morrisons vegetable quarter pounders, stuffed with peas, carrots, sweet

corn and potato are exquisite piled on to bread with beetroot, spinach, onions and relish. Eroski’s seitan and courgette burgers are extremely versatile and taste great when added to pasta or rice dishes. Taking time out of every day to carefully plan what to eat is rewarding, and really helps you look forward to each meal, particularly where hummus is involved.

For all those who may have been convinced to try the Veganuary movement for this year, check out our recipe section and join the Vegan Gibraltar community on Facebook to share ideas and pick up useful tips. Also, remember to sign up on the Veganuary website to take advantage of all the useful information they have to offer.

Happy Veganuary!

as CO2 and methane (a gas that has a warming effect 86 times more potent), animal agriculture is also responsible for nitrous oxide emissions. This gas is 268 times more harmful than CO2 in terms of its potential to intensify global warming.

Agricultural scientists estimate that eating meat requires four-and-a-half times more land than is necessary for a vegan diet.

The earth’s rainforests and other precious natural areas are being destroyed to provide this space. In just over ten years, the Amazon has lost an area of forest twice the size of Portugal.

Eating animals is the largest contributing factor in habitat loss and species extinction. If fed directly to people, crops for farmed animals could end world hunger.

Worldwide, 70 billion farmed animals are all producing waste which, poor or improperly managed, is polluting our air and waterways. The single biggest threat of water pollution is from agriculture.

The United Nations describes animal agriculture as having ‘an enormous impact on water use’.

3. FOR YOUR HEALTH Well-planned plant-based diets are rich in protein, iron, calcium and other essential vitamins and minerals. The plant-based sources of these nutrients tend to be low in saturated fat, high in fibre and packed with antioxidants, helping mitigate some of the modern world’s biggest health issues like obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Apart from all the obvious benefits of consuming no cholesterol, there is massive overuse of antibiotics in farming today. Antibiotics are fed to farmed animals to offset the disease risks posed by overcrowding, stressful conditions, early weaning and maximising production. These are given regardless of whether the animal is infected or not leading to the rise of antibiotic resistance in meat-eaters.

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LITTLE OASIS - evolution of the Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park

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ters play inept zoo keepers, completely idden amidst the natural haven public and became somewhat of a mini of the Botanic Gardens, the zoo. Many unwanted exotic pets have void of any knowledge or understanding Alameda Wildlife Conservation been added, as well as a small collection of of how to run a zoo. In a sense, the AWCP Park is home to one hundred endangered cotton top tamarins, as part of had a similar beginning until it fell into the capable hands of Steve Bryant who and thirty one individual curious creatures. breeding programmes with zoos in the UK. previously worked at Newquay Zoo in the Some came to the park as confiscated exOther endangered species like the lemurs otic pets, some are former unwanted pets and otters were also added more recently,’ UK. ‘He’s very in touch with the zoo world, that have been dumped on the Park manager Jess Leaper explains although he’d left, he’s visited and helped AWCP’s doorstep and a couple to me, speaking over the howls of out regularly. Last year, he offered to Some came come back and help to gain BIAZA were specially sought out from to the park as hungry otters. membership, which was a dream of other zoos, to develop a conser- confiscated AWCP is his as well,’ Jess says. ‘This process vation and breeding programme applying for exotic pets...

Applying for BIAZA here, in Gibraltar. The park, with involves us going through licensing, classification status its staff that can be counted looking at standards of care and as a real zoo. making sure our enclosures are up on one hand, was founded fifteen years Fast forward to present day, ago, through the goodwill of volunteers to scratch. We will also need to and the AWCP is in the process make sure we have correct veterinary care, who helped build the first enclosures to of applying for classification as a real zoo with specialised vets coming over from the home a consignment of exotic, and illegal, under the British and Irish Association animals that was confiscated by Customs UK to assist us, every six months. There of Zoos and Aquariums. ‘Granting our and left for GONHS and the Gibraltar Vet are various criteria to go through. The acceptance into BIAZA, we will officially process will hopefully maintain standards Clinic to manage. ‘The ships held monkeys, be the smallest zoo within the association.’ long tail macaques, pigtail macaques from because each year, you have to carry out My knowledge of zoology is limited to the Indonesia, parrots and also some chimZooniverse of BBC3’s curious Mighty Boosh an assessment to maintain membership.’ panzees. Gradually, this park has built up BIAZA status for the small creature haven programme’s first season, during which from there. In 2003, it was opened to the will allow AWCP to exchange animals with Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt’s charac40

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“We certainly encourage volunteers...”

other zoos and take part in breeding programmes. Jess continues, ‘we’re currently waiting on a female cotton top tamarin. Once we start breeding them, we’ll need zoos to accept us and know that we are of the correct standard.

The staff will be able to attend courses and seminars also. I’m really keen to push on with the conservation side of the park; there are lots of great programmes in Gibraltar that the park can showcase. We really want to start an education centre, which I’ve been looking to do for many years.’ As part of BIAZA, the park has to develop a collection plan, detailing their plans for the future, particularly, if they are looking to grow their offering. Falling under the association will allow for staff members to attend relevant conferences and will see specialist vets visit the park to monitor the animals. BIAZA status will finally put AWCP on the map, after many years of hard work from the staff. A group of zoo experts are visiting this month from the UK to assist with collection planning and licensing.

Funded by Kusuma Trust, the Directors of Newquay Zoo, Sheldon Wildlife Park and Zoo and Wildlife Solutions will offer their expertise.

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inhabitants includes confiscated African Grey parrots, parakeets, Jumbo the handsome Macaw, two friendly marmosets, lemurs, the curious cotton top tamarins who dart around their enclosure excitedly as I approach, hibernating tortoises who are nowhere to be seen, two camera shy otters, frolicking happily in their enclosure, Egyptian fruit bats, a family of long-tailed macaques, each with their own vibrant personality, eager to grab at my camera through the mesh of their enclosure, and a small group of very rounded pot belly

pigs. With around 250 Barbary Partridges, Gibraltar’s flagship bird, having just been released on the Rock, Jess is eager to introduce the species to the park in order to display to the public what Gibraltar’s fauna has to offer. The AWCP is predominantly funded by the Government but the brunt of the huge renovations carried out between 2010 and 2013 was funded by the Parasol Foundation, formerly the Bonita Trust. Jess’ main concerns about the park, which has a marked presence and air of professionalism to it, is its lack of

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There are animals waiting for enclosures that cannot be covered by the current budget.

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staffing. ‘It’s very inconsistent,’ she laments, ‘we have three zookeepers and myself, the manager; Steve has taken up the position of Head Keeper. Then we have Hannah on the scheme and another member of staff dedicated to maintenance. The good thing about BIAZA is that it would attract professionals who might be interested in either running the park or being part of the team.

We certainly encourage volunteers who are sensible and willing to work.’ Jess calls for private funding for the park, noting that there are animals waiting for enclosures that cannot be covered by the current budget. ‘There’s a soft shelled snapping turtle waiting for a new home.’

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Unwanted pet problem One of the leading purposes of the AWCP is to educate, Jess tells me that when the local schools visit in the Spring, they work hard to educate the children on what kinds of pets to keep and how much responsibility they require. She relays stories of unwanted pets that are fairly frequently brought in to the park, having been abandoned by their owners. ‘We had two ducks turn up last week, the gardeners brought them but, unfortunately, we couldn’t take them without quarantine and there are no holding areas for ducks.

I was talking with the vet about enforcing extra restrictions in the legislation, particularly after two caimans turned up a couple of years ago.’ The small crocodile species were imported into Gibraltar as pets. Many unwanted, and often, undomesticated animals find themselves left up the rock, or in the park, where it is a struggle for them to survive. ‘How often do creatures turn up at your doorstep?’ I ask.

‘Probably monthly,’ Jess responds, ‘There is a problem here. We had a chameleon that died this week and it was so sad. She had turned up looking quite plump so we thought perhaps she had eggs to lay. We didn’t know how old she was, but they only live four, five years.’ One entire enclosure at the park is dedicated to petting animals.

The rabbits and guinea pigs homed there are all former unwanted pets that have been dumped at the park. According to Jess it is a struggle to care for animals that they can’t tell the history of.

Working together Jess’ dedication to the park is unmatched.

She initially got involved as a volunteer, on a stay in Gibraltar as part of her Masters Degree, studying the macaques. Nine years later, she is still here, ‘I just got sucked in! You always feel responsible because the park is eternally short staffed and new things crop up.

It’s the kind of job that The small gets you out of bed every crocodile morning. It is a lovely species were setting to work in, this little oasis in the middle imported into Gibraltar of Gibraltar.’ Much of Jess’ knowledge comes from as pets.

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fauna extensive personal research, particularly Jess explains that a big focus currently is regarding the husbandry of the current pushing further advertising for the park. inhabitants of the park. Homing these ‘It’s a bit of a battle, I had leaflets made animals requires a great deal of planning, fairly recently, and they’ve been all handed as often certain species of sexes cannot out.’ Admittedly, even I found it difficult to be homed in the same find the park, and I’m familiar with the enclosure. She keeps a close “I’m very into area. There is very limited exposure of it eye on their behaviours, as in Gibraltar’s many tourism led webmaking the alpha male mannerisms can animal’s lives sites and physical media. ‘Animals tend cause disruption amongst as natural as to gravitate around us,’ Jess grins as a the groups. Often, when a group of feral chickens scurry outside possible...” new species is dropped on the gate. ‘There is a small feral parakeet their doorstep, she’ll contact that flies around. He’s heard our birds peers at other zoos. When she has a bird and has come over and found a girlfriend or reptile related query, she approaches in one of our enclosures and he feeds with Alameda Botanic Gardens Director, Dr. the other bigger parrots. Eventually, we’ll Keith Bensusan. ‘We work a lot with AAP take him in as we have done with others.’ in the Netherlands; they do a lot of rescue The staff does work with other entities in work, particularly with Barbary macaques.

Gibraltar, including the Gibraltar Veterinary They came to assess one of our pigtail maClinic, Brian Gomilla of Monkey Talk and Common marmoset caques who was causing trouble. They said the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural our group was fantastically healthy and History Society Raptor Unit. They also home there that were interesting from very happy and that they had more severe work with other BIAZA members, includan environmental and conservation cases to deal with. Two or three years later, ing Newquay and Apenhaul this particular male was causing havoc, and zoos from which they obtained “He’s heard perspective. Otters seemed like a good idea so we got two Asian shortbeing very aggressive with his mother so their otters and lemurs. These our birds clawed otters as they were surplus in we managed to get him re-assessed and programmes help to maintain and has another collection. We got two sisthey took him on. I’m very into making the the endangered species. ‘We come over ters because we didn’t want to breed animal’s lives as natural as possible, I don’t needed to get people enticed and found a them but they do fight occasionally. want to see them behind bars but if they into the park, with something of At the moment, they’ve decided to are going to be, they have to be dealt with interest. We had a particular wa- girlfriend...” be friends.’ As four o’clock looms, anias sensitively as we can. That is what we terfall area that was unused and mals squabble in their enclosures. aimed to do with the renovations.’ so we looked at a species that we could

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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS How not to be a modern man

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n September last year, the New York times published a 27-point summary of what a modern man is all about by Brian Lombardi. Having read this a few times over, I can’t but help think that this must be some form of tongue in cheek/ satirical commentary, surely?

need it, then you face a very difficult and lonely life. There is strength in sharing problems and working things out with your friends and family, that’s what makes these relationships so special, do not hide away in a fallacy that you are the fountain of all knowledge.

As if today’s man is not confused enough by the speed in which a change of roles and expectations has affected him (at a pace far beyond normal evolutionary processes) you end up reading this very skewed perspective of current expectations.

3. The modern man is considerate. At the movie theatre, he won’t munch down a mouthful of popcorn during a quiet moment. He waits for some ruckus.

This man does not buy his spouse clothes or shoes. My wife is perfectly capable of making great choices of what suits her best. My attempts at purchasing any items of apparel have prompted an instant remark of “do you want me to look like a stripper?” and has resulted in an exchange of the item(s) in question. Don’t My wife is perfectly even attempt it. It will always be too big (you think I am fat), capable of making too small (I am too fat to fit great choices of into that), wrong colour, wrong what suits her best. shape, etc. etc.

Here is my response, that of a middle-aged man, so to be old-aged, to that article.

1. When the modern man buys shoes for his spouse, he doesn’t have to ask her sister for the size. And he knows which brands run big or small.

If age teaches you something, it is that we all make mistakes and things seldom run smoothly. If you aren’t capable of recognising that and asking for help when you

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This man doesn’t take food into the cinema in the first place, let alone one that has no nutritional value.

Being considerate to others and being aware of how one’s actions can affect others is vitally important. There is too much selfishness in how many people go about their lives.

We all make mistakes and things seldom run smoothly.

2. The modern man never lets other people know when his confidence has sunk. He acts as if everything is going swimmingly until it is.

4. The modern man doesn’t cut the fatty or charred bits off his fillet. Every bite of

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Steak, like coffee and chocolate are sacrosanct and as such are to be treated with uttermost respect and to be consumed at every possible opportunity, but why ingest pointless fats or free radicals into your body?

5. The modern man won’t blow ten minutes of his life looking for the best parking spot. He finds a reasonable one and puts his car between the lines.

It is obvious that the writer has not been to Gibraltar. I wish ten minutes was all that one would have to waste looking for a parking, let alone the best one! No, this man walks or takes the bus wherever possible because life is too short to be stuck in a car.

6. Before the modern man heads off to bed, he makes sure his spouse’s phone and his kids’ electronic devices are charging for the night.

There is too much selfishness in how many people go about their lives.

As if charging my own accessories wasn’t enough, I am expected to charge my wife’s as well? What, hasn’t she got a brain of her own? Oh, and my children don’t have anything that needs charging up, books, puzzles, Lego blocks and pencils go on for ever without the need to be plugged in.

7. The modern man buys only regular colas, like Coke or Dr Pepper. If you walk into his house looking for a Mountain Dew, he’ll show you the door.

This man doesn’t buy sugar rich time bombs for his own or his family’s consumption. What happened to water (sparkling if you need the fizz)? If you ask for one at my home, you might get offered a freshly squeezed juice… at a push!

8. The modern man uses the proper names for things. For example, he’ll say

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“helicopter,” not “chopper” like some gauche simpleton.

11. The modern man has never “pinned” a tweet, and he never will.

My “chopper” is my Harley Davidson and don’t call me “Dave”.

Why not? If it’s worth sharing, it’s worth sharing. Get a life as if you are going to be the only one with original and worthwhile ideas!

9. Having a daughter makes the modern man more of a complete person. He learns new stuff every day.

12. The modern man checks the status of his Irish Spring bar before jumping in for a wash. Too small, it gets swapped out.

Having a child, irrespective of gen- I wish ten minutes was der teaches you the most importall that one ant things about life. Nurturing, caring for them and teaching them would have to If this man hasn’t got any of my is the most rewarding and life enwaste looking soap left once he is in the showhancing thing you will EVER do in for a parking... er, he’ll happily grab his wife’s your life. You will learn more about and if that fails, her shampoo or yourself and life from this process as has happened many a times, than you have done in your life so far. has a wash with her conditioner as that’s the only thing that’s left in any bottle.

BTW washing with conditioner, if you are 10. The modern man makes sure the hairy, leaves you feeling very smooth, you dishes on the rack have dried completely should try it! before putting them away.

This man has no time to waste hand drying dishes, that’s what the dishwasher is for.

This man spends that time with his family instead.

13. The modern man listens to Wu-Tang at least once a week.

Who?

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life 14. The modern man still jots down his grocery list on a piece of scratch paper.

The market is no place for his face to be buried in the phone.

This man makes sure his mood is not noticed by his children. I do not bring up my children to fear me or my moods. This one is so wrong at so many levels.

This man’s shopping list consists of what is at my right arm’s reach as I trawl through the aisles at Morrison’s. I extend my right arm and almost randomly choose items that need to fall into the trolley. Extensive market research is already conducted by supermarkets to ensure that your most needed items, of any shop, are located in this location. You are guided in a particular path along the aisles by clever placements

16. The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.

This man sleeps wherever his co-sleeping children let him. That might be his child’s bed, downstairs sofa… anywhere he can catch a few winks really.

Do these things still exist? Last time I saw one of these I was about four at the Bata shoe shop in Main Street. Why? 19. The modern man buys fresh flowers more to surprise his wife than to say he is sorry.

Here is a perfect example of the right arm principle I talked about above. What’s, the first item you come across when you enter Morrison’s, on your right? Yep, flowers… guess what always makes it to my shopping trolley… yep, flowers. Simples! Value your wife, children and family. Always

Washing with conditioner, if you are hairy, leaves you feeling very smooth...

Too much of a good thing is bad.

and if you don’t believe me, next time you go to the supermarket take note of the path you follow, you will always follow the same route. If people have spent so much money in making it easy for me to buy the things I need, why waste time with a shopping list. So far my family hasn’t starved.

15. The modern man has hardwood flooring. His children can detect his mood from the stamp of his Kenneth Cole oxfords.

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17. Does the modern man have a melon baller? What do you think? How else would the cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew he serves be so uniformly shaped?

Take melon, run large kitchen knife through it, take out slice, eat whilst on the skin...

Who has time for melon ballers, really?

18. The modern man has thought seriously about buying a shoehorn.

make them feel special.

Having said this, too much of a good thing is bad. One year I bought my wife her St Valentines bouquet using this technique…

Did not go down well! “You made no effort! You bought me these the same way you do every week. Don’t you care about me anymore?”…since then, it’s been Gibral Flora delivery... but no Morrisons bouquet that week... need to leave room in the vase for the delivery!

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20. On occasion, the modern man is the little spoon. Some nights, when he is feeling down or vulnerable, he needs an emotional and physical shield.

Men always need support, as do women.

Get real and get on with it.

21. The modern man doesn’t scold his daughter when she sneezes while eating an apple doughnut, even if the pieces fly everywhere.

Why should he, his children are imitating what they see their dad do!

22. The modern man still ambles half-naked down his driveway each morning to scoop up a crisp newspaper.

The number of times I’ve seen men take the rubbish out in the underwear is unreal, please for the sake of the rest of us, dress up!

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23. The modern man has all of Michael Mann’s films on Blu-ray (or whatever the highest quality thing is at the time).

25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.

This man will have whatever PirateBay has made available in the latest shaky cam-copy format downloaded to be able to try and watch it at some unforgiving hour, once the children have collapsed for the night. This man hasn’t been to the cinema since his children were born.

Will give him this one!

24. The modern man doesn’t get hung up on his phone’s battery percentage.

If it needs to run flat, so be it.

This man cries watching X-factor.

He didn’t used to. But life threw him some wobblies. He went through the barrier and realised that there was no point in trying to hold back the tears anymore. Let them flow freely, it’s therapeutic.

You must be kidding, battery life is more important than oxygen and water to survive, surely?

26. The modern man cries. He cries often.

27. People aren’t sure if the modern man is a good dancer or not. That is, until the D.J. plays his jam and he goes out there and puts on a clinic.

This man can’t dance, but that doesn’t stop him.

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PRIOR PARK Introducing independent education to the Rock

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arm of Prior Park College. In 1980, the n the spirit of new beginnings, growth development, Peter further explained to Christian Brothers left and the school and healthy competition, Gibraltar’s me the reasoning behind the new school; first independent school is set to ‘there are very strong links between Prior entered lay administration, later becoming open its doors as the new school year Park and Gibraltar. Partly through the co-educational and accepting day pupils. commences in September. Prior development work at Prior Park Park School, Gibraltar will follow Many College in terms of reaching out to The Parents Working Party the ethos of Prior Park’s three its old pupils, the headmaster has Gibraltarian other schools in the UK, with a been making trips to Gibraltar over The staunch values of the Parents Working Alumni leaning toward Catholicism and the last four years, just to keep in Party have been instrumental in the attended the contact with their old pupils. There’s a goal of forging great working process of bringing Prior Park to Gibraltar. relationships with both students preparatory been a groundswell of need for an ‘They formulated the idea originally about school arm of independent secondary school for and parents. Headmaster of the need for the school and they fed in a Prior Park... the Secondary School, Peter children who are currently going to lot of ideas. I’ve been involved with key Watts tells me that the school, Loreto Convent, to progress onto. At stakeholders both here and in Spain, and when fully operational, will have a student the same time, a group of parI’ve met the children of Loreto, population of around 240 boys and ents came together to lobby the The most getting a sense from them about girls. Prior Park shares a rich history with Government and the Ministry what they want their secondary appealing Gibraltar, through the Rock’s alumni. Prior of Education, to respond to the education to be like. I’ve had a attractions are Park’s flagship institute, a college in Bath, need, so that they didn’t have huge amount of support from the closeness of the staff there.’ Peter himself was home to many Gibraltarians through to send their children overseas the community the ages. This has been a driving force in if they wanted an independent has spent over twenty-three and the climate. years teaching. He fell into the the decision to initiate the new institueducation.’ Many Gibraltarian tion on the Rock. Visiting Gibraltar ahead Alumni, who now play leading profession when one of his of his permanent move to the Rock this roles in business, law and politics on the former teachers encouraged him to take month, to oversee progress of the school’s Rock, attended the preparatory school his PGCE, following University. He found 48

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education himself applying to teach at independent who graduated from English They are recruiting schools, because it would allow him to universities achieved a first or teaching staff teach both GCSE and A level students, a 2:1, compared with 73% of which is not always available to teachers state school leavers. Discussing both locally and internationally. working under the state system. Having re- the benefits of independent located to Gibraltar on a permanent basis, education, he says it offers his family will join him in July, Peter insists more choice in terms of the curriculum. that the most appealing attractions for him ‘Class size will be a big difference, we are are the closeness of the community and going to be a small school and one of the the climate. We discuss the impressive attractive elements for parents is the fact league table placement Gibraltar prides that there will be more individual attention itself on, in terms of GCSE and A level pass for their child, and more regular feedback rates. ‘I think that comes because of how and lines of communication.’ He goes on highly valued education is by parents and to say that there will be big investment I think we will stretch the into classroom facilities to make children we take in and add them state of the art. ‘We will be Independent to the success that Gibraltar wanting to give children the best schools have been opportunities to test themselves already feels.’ a central point of in the classroom and develop controversy in the those personal qualities and Independent education vs.

UK for years... aptitudes.’ Peter envisages that the state education school will also draw in students Prior Park. The difficulty at the moment from across the border, as well as is that there are a lot of chicken and egg Independent schools have been a central those already attending Loreto Convent. situations, until we know how many chilpoint of controversy in the UK for years, dren will attend, we don’t know how many with many questioning the suggestion The September 2016 intake will be made teachers to take on etcetera. ‘There will that children receive a better education at up of years 8, 9 and 10, allowing for sixth be further challenges ahead; fine tuning private institutions, and begrudging the form students to start attending in 2017. of the curriculum will need to wait until elitist stereotype that is often afforded ‘The curriculum will focus on IGCSE examI’ve appointed all of the staff. Once the to them. A recent piece in the Economist inations, allowing for better preparation for school is up and running, that forward plan explores these controversies, noting that testing A level. The A level specifications will become so much easier over the next ‘the hostile tone’ towards private schools have been revisited in recent years and year.’ The current curriculum plan has been has resulted in two headmasters recently are going to be more demanding. In terms driven by discussions between Mr. Watts leaving prominent British institutions. Long of subject spread, we’ve got the fantastic and academic leaders of Prior Park College has there existed a bitter divide between opportunity of working with Prior Park in the UK. ‘I meet regularly with the other allegedly elitist, private school educated College, and we will have a virtual classheads within the Prior Park foundation politicians and the state-educated middle room environment for subjects that are and that’s an opportunity for me to have a class, which I estimate makes up the manot on offer on campus in Gibraltar.’ In the sounding board, which is quite unusual for jority of the Gibraltarian working populastart up phase of setting up the school, the a headmaster to be able to go and to be tion. However, a statistic from a study carschool is appealing to teachers who can completely open and frank with another ried out by the Higher Education Funding teach more than one subject; ‘someone headmaster about how to tackle a particuCouncil for England lar problem.’

(HEFCE) stated 82% of It offers more who can teach two sciences at GCSE would be a very private school leavers choice in attractive prospect.’ They are The school will The process of marketing the terms of the recruiting teaching staff both be located in the institution to parents of potential curriculum. former Sacred locally and internationally. students is a fulltime role in itself.

Heart building.

The school and its team has help from a marketing company in Bath, Reviving Sacred Heart promoting it through social media and the press. I ask the white elephant question on The school will be located in the former fees and Peter openly tells me that each Sacred Heart building. Renovation work academic year will cost between £8,000 will commence this month. ‘It’s a lovely and £11,000, depending which year group old building, but it does need a lot of work inside,’ Peter comments. ‘We’re maintaining a child is in. This, he notes, is cheaper than the cost of a day school in the UK of the outside because it’s beautiful. It will be equivalent quality. ‘One of the things that repainted and a lot of the shutters will be replaced, but it won’t look substantially dif- was clear from the outset was that parents wanted value for money and it had to be ferent. On the inside though, I think it will.

A lot of the health and safety requirements affordable. This is not about elitism and only providing an education to those who have changed in the past five years and can afford it. We are a charitable trust and so we need to make the building safe and any surplus that is made goes straight back attractive and modern, and fully equipped.’ to the trust. Although we’re part of the Additionally, he notes, working full time Prior Park group of schools, it’s not a franin his role as Deputy Head of Sherborne, chise operation, you’re not going to see in the UK over the last term has proved a whole host of other Prior Park Schools stressful with much of his time also dedicropping up all over the world.’ cated to putting together his strategy for GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

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TRUE BILINGUALISM Eddie Picardo

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1952 and he entered the Grammar School. to provide a scholarship this year, the These teachers are remembered with a Gibraltar Government agreed to fund a combination of awe and second scholarship which was given affection; Brothers Foley, The recipient of to Eddie. After a period as student teacher at St Jago’s School, he Horkan, D’Arcy, Carey and a Government carried out his National Service with Finnegan. His contemporarscholarship was the Gibraltar Regiment from March ies included Ronnie Barabich, expected to Adolfo Canepa, Frank Barea, to September 1959.

Hector Barea, Richard Reyes, return and work in Gibraltar for Reggie Garcia and Michael In those days, the pupil did not a few years...

Zammitt. Two older pupils decide which university to apply for; who in later life influenced He was born in London during the evacuainstead the educational section of his politics were Joe Bossano tion on the day the German blitz started in the Colonial Office made the decision and and Maurice Xiberras. A significant number provided the place. In his case, this was Central London. His first sight of the Rock of school friends left Gibraltar to seek at the University College of Swansea, the of Gibraltar was in 1944 as a returning a career in the Mother Country. fourth constituent college of the University evacuee on the SS Sterling Castle.

Two older This was the time of the battle by of Wales. The title of Swansea University teachers for parity. pupils who was adopted on 1 September 2007.

Private schools provided his education for several years; St influenced his Following his final year at school, Filomena run by Miss Dotto At that time, the recipient of a politics were the Gibraltar Government scholGovernment scholarship was expected followed by Miss Teuma’s school Joe Bossano arship was awarded to Elizabeth in Main Street. 18 months were to return and work in Gibraltar for a few and Maurice Bruzon, probably the first girl to spent in Castle Road which was years but this was an expectation and Xiberras. receive this award. As the John not compulsory. The three year rule only a Government school run by lay Mackintosh Trust was not able applied to those attending the Catholic staff. The 11 plus was passed in ddie Picardo, 75, is one of the unsung heroes of the old scholarship system when only two scholarships were awarded each year; one by the Gibraltar Government, the other funded by the John Mackintosh Educational Trust. He is also a founder member of the Pro Integration Movement (PIM) which went on to become the Integration With Britain Party (IWBP).

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life and wrote letters to politicians and newsXiberras, Hector Licudi and Roger Walker. papers. But after a couple of years Meetings were held in The Cabin he married, having at times given and The Ascot. At this stage, it was At that time serious consideration to returning a pressure group rather than a Eddie read English, History and Politics in teachers to Gibraltar. political party. Later in 1965, he his first year and then took an Honours was co-opted onto the committee had to move degree in English in 1962. Before the final and took part in public meetings, His first teaching jobs in UK were exams, he applied for a Commonwealth where the culminating in 1966 by speaking at the St Edward the Confessor scholarship for post graduate research, jobs were... with Bob Peliza in a television school in Richmond followed following the successful applications of debate about the PIM on Gibraltar by five years at Eliots Green Edwin Yeats and Maurice Xiberras in previTelevision. The opposition was J.E.Triay and Grammar school in Ealing, where he was ous years. In those years, one such scholMaurice Featherstone. head of English for the last year before the arship a year was allocated to Gibraltar. school went comprehensive.

He was successful, stayed at Swansea and his subject was the Eddie taught English for about 18 He was impact of the famous Francisco months at the Grammar School and In 1969, he married Mary McCalvey, attracted to was the first teacher of English at Gómez de Quevedo’s work Los an English primary school teacher he the idea of A level. In his time, there had been Sueños on English literature and had met on the Rock during one of his no such teacher and he studied for intellectual thought. In 1965, he Integration holidays there. She had been working in into the UK... A level (and S level) using a correbecame a Master of Arts.

Gibraltar for a year. For three years, she spondence course. Towards the end taught at a Girls Public Day School Trust of 1966, he moved to London via a institution in Ealing and then at a primary Also in 1965, back on the Rock after short stay in Canada. school in Hillingdon. In 1972, they moved six years of study, he started to take an to Basingstoke, where he was one of interest in local politics. He was attractthe founding members of staff at Queen After moving to London, Eddie, together ed to the idea of Integration into the Mary’s Sixth Form College. This was one United Kingdom and was one of the with others, formed an unofficial London of the first in England and the pace setter branch whose members attended debates founder members of the Pro Integration for many other Sixth Form Colleges in and met MPs in the House of Commons, Party along with Joe Bossano, Maurice Hampshire and beyond. teaching colleges, such as St. Mary’s and Digby Stuart.

It was his job to educate Gibraltarian youth to be able to take over the jobs occupied

by British expatriates.

After three years, they moved to Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk where he was head of the Sixth Form at Thurston Upper School, an innovative 13 to 18 comprehensive. This was more a management role although he also taught English.

Eddie said at that time teachers had to move where the jobs were if they wished for promotion and higher salary.

His parents left Gibraltar to move near them in Bury St. Edmunds. By now, Eddie and Mary had two sons, Christopher and James. In 1979, Eddie moved to the Midlands and held the post of Assistant Principal at a Sixth Form College near Birmingham from 1979-1992. He then obtained the Principalship of St Philip’s R.C. Sixth Form College.

He retired at the end of 1994 but continued with part time teaching in English and Spanish, and for five years was A level examiner in English. There were also nine years as an unpaid volunteer with the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Eddie, in 2006, decided to study part time for a Doctorate at the University of Birmingham which took six years. The theme of his thesis was “The War and the Siege – language policy and practice in Gibraltar 1940 -1985”.

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This incorporated his two pet subjects; the growth of the English language in Gibraltar and the connection between this and the quest for political rights for the people.

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Gibraltar owes a great deal to the report

by Miles Clifford, the colonial secretary 1942-44, who advocated a controlled state education organised by the Gibraltar Government and the primacy of the English language. This happened and allowed for the advancement of political empowerment in the immediate post war years. Education did improve with the Grammar School under the Christian Brothers to the fore. Parallel improvements took place in girls’ education. Brother Foley famously said that it was his job to educate Gibraltarian youth to be able to take over the jobs occupied

by British expatriates. By the same token, the 2006 Constitution gave virtual total self-government to Gibraltar.

A middle class Gibraltarian male spoke English whereas a working class woman only knew Spanish.

Eddie examined how the class divide was often driven by different degrees of fluency in English. Political power was in the hands of the military establishment and a few wealthy Gibraltarian families.

It was often the case that a middle class Gibraltarian male spoke English whereas a working class woman only knew Spanish.

Gibraltarians were not able to stand for election to the City Council unless they spoke and wrote English. This was a loss to the community as gifted Gibraltarians who did not speak English were disadvantaged.

Eddie was surprised that the subject of his thesis had not been discussed in Gibraltar and so he spent considerable time interviewing Gibraltarians both on and off the Rock. (There is a copy of his thesis in the Garrison Library.)

Whereas many of the evacuees and their children did not speak English, today the majority of school children speak English as their first language. Bilingual parents often talk to each other in Spanish but in English to their children. Nowadays on the Rock, formal discussions are in English with social chatter in Spanish. This led Eddie to research linguistic issues like the use of different registers and diglossia, drawing examples both from Today the Gibraltar and other bilingual majority communities.

With granddaughter Sophie

the valleys. The Welsh spoken includes whole English phrases. This is known as code-switching.

of limited political rights and language disadvantage discussed in his thesis”.

Eddie was in Gibraltar for the Formal Literary Festival and he thought discussions the standard of speakers and are in English the organization was excellent. with social The Festival showed Gibraltar in chatter in a fine light. He and Mary thorSpanish. oughly enjoyed the event and only regret they did not attend more talks. The live showing of the ballet and Llévame donde Nací, while not strictly speaking festival events, added greatly to the ambiente and cultural atmosphere.

Eddie and Mary, St Leonard’s on Sea 1969

This is how Eddie views Gibraltar today.

“Mary and I travel a good deal, both as confirmed motorcaravanners and also on frequent long-haul journeys. But we always try to make sure we visit Gibraltar yearly: This is partly to visit my Casciaro aunt and cousins, with whom we are very close, and also school contemporaries (some of of school them named above) and other children His research showed that true friends. We are always pleasantly bilingualism occurs when the speak English struck by how Gibraltar is progressspeaker, without thought, uses ing year by year in the quality of as their first words from both languages in much of its architecture, old and language. a sentence; in other words, in new, and respect for heritage. Local Gibraltar’s case, llanito. This talent in these fields, in the arts and, also happens, for example, in Wales when let it be said, government has flourished the local population comes into town from over the years – a far cry from the period GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

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history words | Dr. Chris Grocott, University of Leicester

Dr. Gareth Stockey, University of Nottingham Dr. Jo Grady, University of Leicester illustrations | Chris Zammit

ANARCHY IN GIB Part One

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e know so much more about the history of Gibraltar now than we did even twenty years ago. For example, of late, there have been several works published tackling issues of Gibraltarian identity, the operation of local businesses and the business community, and the relationship between Gibraltar and the Campo.

But, with the notable exception of a 2008 special edition of the Gibraltar Heritage Journal, very little What we has been done on the history discovered of workers in Gibraltar.

surprised us. Before 1919, there was in Gibraltar a substantial anarchist movement that used tactics, and held beliefs, quite different to those that came later to Gibraltar’s industrial relations landscape.

In this series of three articles for the Gibraltar Magazine, we want to share with you some of our findings from this exciting period of Gibraltar’s history.

anarchist umbrella organisation called the Círculo Obrero. The Círculo, as it was simply known, organised itself in industry-specific branches. For example, there was a Círculo branch amongst coalheavers, and another amongst bakers. But the Círculo wasn’t simply a political movement, it also established local meeting places where people came to provide assistance to the poor and education to those, children and adults, who wanted to learn basic skills such as how to read and write.

What we already knew was that anarchist ideas and organisations were common in Spain in the late There was in nineteenth century. Anarchism, The establishment of schools Gibraltar a surprised us. with its distrust of governments, was a heartfelt attempt by anarsubstantial A couple of years ago, we set concern that individuals be able chists to provide resources for anarchist out on a research journey to try to uncover to have a voice in how society is self-improvement. Anarchists movement... were deeply distrustful of the the working-class history of the Rock. We run, and intense belief that direct, already knew that Gibraltar had a long sometimes violent, action was the education provided by the history of British-style trade union activity best way to achieve change, appealed to Catholic Church which predominated – a branch of the Transport and General workers who, in the Spanish state, faced throughout Spain and Gibraltar. And yet, Workers’ Union, now Unite, was estabstrong oppression and substantial poverty. anarchists could often be fairly puritanlished in Gibraltar in 1919. But we wanted But in addition to anarchism being popular ical in their tastes, rejecting alcohol and to focus on the decades before the end in Spain, from 1890 onwards there existed tobacco as being substances designed to of the Great War. What we discovered in both Gibraltar and the Campo a broad dull the wits of the working class. Despite 54

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history these principles, the barriers to establishworkers issued a statement denouncing ing secular school or union premises were their employers as ‘capitalist ogres’ who considerable, particularly in Spain, given they characterised as ‘exploiters without that the permits required to establish them conscience’, determined to see workers were rarely forthcoming. As drop ‘lifeless through Instances one anarchist newspaper fatigue produced by exAnarchists abounded lamented in 1901, ‘it is a cess of work’ as a result were deeply shame that while there is no of their ‘thirst for gold… of workers distrustful of impediment for us going to which never satiates’. The throwing the education end of the strike showed the tavern, or to the bullfights rocks at provided by or to church - on the cona distinct slight of hand notable trary, it is encouraged that we the Catholic by both employers and targets...

Church... bend to these places where the colonial authorities, we can only stupefy ourselves who worked together.

– barriers are raised to dignify or to make The vast majority of the bakers on strike cultured men of ourselves. Rest assured were Spaniards, working in Gibraltar by that if attempting to create a Catholic virtue of having a permit to enter the garriclub or a drinking establishment, or build a son. When the bakers declared themselves bullring, or install a religious community… to be on strike, the employers dismissed not only one, but twenty permits would be them and so the colonial authorities were obtained’. Anarchism was, then, not just a able to withdraw their permits and expel political worker’s movement, but a broader them from the Rock. social one too.

Overall, for those involved in the anarchist movement, these were exciting times. Gains were being made. Moreover, anarchists believed in regularly practicing revolutionary activity in the hope that a General Strike would break-out; one that would lead to revolution and a fundamental re-organisation of society. Indeed, in 1902 a substantial strike did occur and we will come to that in the third of these articles. But first, next time, a curious incident involving a British labour organisation – the Social Democratic Federation, or SDF. The SDF arrived in Gibraltar in 1898 and tried to displace the Rock’s various anarchist organisations, much to the delight of employers. But the experiment was short-lived. For the time being, anarchism held strong on the Rock.

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The speed with which the could often Círculo established itself in be fairly Gibraltar was remarkable. puritanical in In the 1880s, governors of their tastes...

Gibraltar did not report back to London a single instance of labour unrest. However, from 1890 until 1902, there were several strikes, sometimes as many as four or five a year.

In 1890, one strike secured the right of workers and employers to jointly organise the hiring and paying workers, severely reducing the ability of employers to blacklist workers or unfairly dock wages, and demonstrating the power of the new movement. When employers tried to reverse this agreement by locking men out of work, a number of attacks on foremen and employers began, reflecting the anarchist belief in violent tactics where necessary.

Four men who were accused of intimidating and assaulting strike-breakers were arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Moorish Castle. When the Police came to convey the prisoners to the Moorish Castle, they found themselves set about by a crowd of fifty A number of people throwing stones at attacks on them. The result was that the foremen and army were called to disperse employers the protestors at bayonet began... point.

Violence towards employers and, at times, the colonial authorities became commonplace during times of industrial unrest. In particular, instances abounded of workers throwing rocks at notable targets such as strike breakers, foremen and employers.

Likewise, the use of dramatic revolutionary rhetoric peppered the speeches of union leaders, newspapers, and pamphlets.

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‘ART’ IN CATHARTIC Canvas Inspirations by Marie Fox

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anvas Inspirations is a new charity that promotes the healing power of art through self expression in a safe, tranquil, non-judgemental, non-clinical environment.

Marie is a fine artist with a couple of solo exhibitions under her belt and the ambition of introducing this alternative therapy to Gibraltar. She took an interest in Art as Therapy after being enthused by the findings of Austrian pioneer ‘Canvas Inspirations’ Edith Kramer, who studied the A cycle of six arty parties promotes the life-changing effects of visual for children, teenagers and healing power of art. arts on refugee children in a New adults are held weekly in York City camp during WWII. one of the King’s Bastion small rooms, where the handful of participants are provided with materials and a “International articles and reports have common theme to develop in complete proven that art as therapy bears undenifreedom - no pressure or rules but having able positive results on a wide spectrum,” Marie says. “Focusing on the empowering fun without poking fun, and widening approach, I use the creative process to their horizons without invading each othhelp the individual increase insight, cope er’s space, unless they do want to discuss their work, and offer constructive criticism with stress, work through traumatic expeon the feelings it communicates. riences, boost cognitive and sensorial abilities, and improve personal relationships.”

She coordinates and tailors art-based The initiative is organised and run by therapy projects, using her ‘personal exMarie Fox, member of BAAT, the British perience, expertise and intuition acquired Association of Art Therapists, and during independent studies and extensive co-founder of Canvas Inspirations with research’ in the discipline.

Minerva Avellano and Dilip Taylor.

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art diagnosis is made from the artwork, but Marie takes pictures of it and archives it in a timeline, to document the participants’ progress not only in artistic terms, but especially with their self-healing, self-improvement, self-image and self-acquaintance process.

Topics and media are varied, but they always imply a journey of self discovery in a more or less subtle way, or request high levels of concentration toward the final product, in order to clear the mind from any mundane preoccupation. And the results are very encouraging, even after a couple of sessions, Marie claims.

She cites the case of a young pupil who displayed a phobia of getting his hands dirty, but once he became engrossed in finger-painting, he stopped worrying about it and actually enjoyed his assignment; and the case of the young man with a tic that just disappears during classes; or an adult who started class using only green paint but eventually moved spontaneously to other colours.

“I am the facilitator, not the teacher,” Marie personal perception and skills, as there is continues. “This is not an arts & crafts no right or wrong way to do it.” Obviously, it does happen that some techniques are class, and participants are not here to learn how to draw. They won’t learn about learnt along the way, and this is a good side effect, but they are never imposed shading, perspective and other drawing from a position of authority over techniques. They will explore “Dispose of your and express themselves.” It the instinctual approach, which anxieties at the is never reprimanded or discouris a cathartic process, as she explains: “It is all about the door and don’ pick aged in favour of compliance to Sharpie permanent markers are used to journey, not the end product: them up ever again standards or conventions. create swirls and bubble patterns on it is about working out their when you leave.” stones, a job that required precision and feelings and elaborating neg“Sometimes, I suggest one topic, tongue-tip-sticking-out concentration for ative emotions into a positive but my audience wants to focus an impeccable result which surely made vibe, while concentrating on the artwork.” on something else inspired by the props, artists and facilitator alike very proud. and if they all agree, I definitely let them go for it. Some artists will talk about what The art supplies are offered as the comOften, the session theme is targeted to dig munication alternative to words. “I bring they are doing, others just spend the hour deeper in one’s own personality, temquietly. The main aim is relaxation: dispose paper, cardboard, acrylic paint, brushes, of your anxieties at the door and don’t pick perament, fears, dreams, expectations or felt-tip pens, tissue paper, and various emotions. Mandalas, whether already made props like pine cones, stones and other them up ever again when you leave.” or custom-built, are an effective mean everyday objects that may be re-purposed to unravel oneself from the core in an artistic fashion... I suggest a topic, This is not a counselling or psycho“I am the outwards. Questions like ‘who am which everyone will expand along their logical evaluation service, and no

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I?’ or ‘what am I grateful for?’ help the participants build a picture or graph spiralling outwards or diffusing like rays of sunshine.

jigsaw puzzle to reproduce animal shapes, or turn them into a composite tree.

so it is satisfying to watch how mandalas evolve in flowery patterns with pastel colours and uplifting quotes to express their attaining that serenity and peace of mind that is the primary and ultimate purpose of the exercise.

On the other hand, teenagers’ Sessions with young children Topics and media sessions can be intense, and seare more easygoing, and usurious issues like self-image, relaalways imply a ally the freedom of messing tionships with family and friends, journey of self about does it for them, but social media, drugs, bullying may Classes are limited to eight participants, discovery... they are also curious about pop up in direct or indirect form: and for their therapeutic value priority media, and they enjoy discovsome would just write down, as is given to candidates with cognitive or ering alternative uses for everyday objects part of the composition, ‘life sux’, others behavioural issues or anxiety disorders. turned into artwork. On a fine autumn day would paint the entire town red Being a non-profit venture, there is for example, Marie started the afternoon on a rainy day, and others would no charge, but donations towards “It is all by handing out dry leaves of different go for a deformed or offset cocovering costs are appreciated. about the shapes and sizes, with licence to use them loured self portrait. journey, as they pleased. Some children concentratFurther information on times and vennot the end ues can be found in Canvas Inspirations ed on painting the actual leaf to make it an Canvas Inspirations’ philosophy product...” objet d’art, others used them as pieces of a is turning negative into positive, Facebook page.

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scene words | Elena Scialtiel photos | Ian Dignam

‘PAN’ IN THE PANTOMIME Harriet Seed as Peter Pan

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‘hardcore’ projects, to show that she can h no, she didn’t! Oh, yes she Few years later, she played Aladdin himself did: she landed the title role in while pregnant with her daughter, now be taken seriously even without tapping the panto. And if that shouldn’t seven, and revving to join the family busiinto her trademark cackle (fine-tuned with come as any surprise for such ness, when she gets old enough to be in her daughter’s help, of course). Directed

by Andrew Dark, she starred in a piece a versatile actress with a wide experience the junior cast, after whetting her appetite about rape for a human rights awareness under her (pirate) belt, the real at countless rehearsals. news is she is playing the hero event, and more recently she was directed She is playing for a change!

by Daniel in Women of Troy, about suicide Harriet’s devilish talent is mighty the hero for a bombers. indeed, as she proved when she change!

Harriet Seed has been the hero was cast as the original evil, the Harriet likes to memorise her lines first, once or twice already, but she Serpent – at least, her arm did - in is most memorable as the baddie, not just the stage adaptation of Mark Twain’s Eve’s and once she is articulate in that, she inbecause they get the most extravagant Diary, directed by Daniel Strain-Webber, jects emotion. “The best way to do that is imagining what I would feel if I was costumes, but because they are the very another promise of amateur thein that situation in real life. It gets reason for panto season. atre. “It was a last-minute offer “When will intense sometimes and when I am and I told myself ‘Hey, when will you get the playing a tragic part, it takes its toll you get the chance to play the “So much fun playing the villain! Being chance to Devil again?’ so I accepted,” she on my mood.” cast as Peter Pan is out of my depth, but play the explains.

I cherish the challenge, with so many Devil again?” A few years back, she was the lines to learn and juggle with everything severed head on a platter in Julian else going on in my life,” says this nursery She enjoys comedy over drama, teacher with a special flair for storytelling because she feels that comedy clicks a Felice’s original comedy Teaching is Murder: who has been involved in local pantomime connection with the audience, who “love “I crouch there, my head trapped between the two halves of the table, my body since the late Nineties, when she debuted you more when you make them laugh than tucked below, supposedly dead still, and in Aladdin. cry”. That said, she participated in several

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scene “We’re always spot-on with the yearly fairytale revival,” Harriet comments. “When we did ‘Sleeping Beauty’, Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent was out in the cinemas, then there was that remake of ‘Cinderella’, and we also staged that story, and now ‘Peter Pan’...” Coincidence? Not at all! This amateur company is trendier than the trendiest trend.

As an amateur company, such mammoth production is very demanding on the 10-15-strong cast of principals and large chorus of children who start ‘chaotic’ rehearsing in September separately, to eventually merge after Christmas and spend most of their January free time at the Ince’s Hall, culminating in nine performances spread over the last two weekends of the month. Especially hectic on the two Saturdays, since the cast and crew spend twelve hours in theatre and make the “At curtainmost of the interval by stealing a nap in up time, I just the corner or munching on wine gums. want to run...” there it goes... I need to sneeze!” That’s There’s also sets painting (the backstage the beauty of live theatre: one must make crew is notorious for their stealthy set the most of blunders and keep the action changes behind the black curtain, while roll: “Another time, my heel got stuck in the action continues on the proscenium) the trap door handle when I was supand costume sewing, a task undertaken posed to storm off after a rant, so I had to

by Margaret and her ‘small army of sewing remove my shoe and walk away without it.” ladies’, as Harriet describes them when After all, theatre imitates life - good job in she admits she cannot sew to save her life, keeping it real! “The worst one so far was albeit trying her hand at set decoration. the time I lost my voice in the Wizard of Oz. I was croaky that day, but there I hop One of Harriet’s earliest Gibraltarian on stage with a guffaw and suddenly I’m memories is tagging along her mother in mute! My mum dubbed me from backstage and out every fabric shop both sides of the and I wore a microphone the following border in search of the right material for nights.” That was embarrassing, she admits, her costumes: “Our home is encumbered for someone famed for her with props, and it turns into this magstentorian stage presence. ical world of make-believe, you just “When I am cannot ignore panto fever. And once playing a This January she fights that’s over, we rest for a couple of tragic part, it weeks and then we dive into the late pantalooned pirates in the takes its toll pandemonium that the April production for the Royal Navy on my mood.” Amateur Drama Festival.”

Trafalgar Theatre Group raises as their colourful panacea to post-Christmas blues. “It’s the last one directed by my mum, I know she says it every year, but this time she means it, and she is training the people who will take over, so the panto tradition doesn’t get lost in Gibraltar. We will have a large backstage crew to deal with set changes and special effects. I can’t give too much away, but expect spectacular.”

Harriet was introduced to projection and enunciation by Christine Thomson and Jean Penney who led the TTG junior group.

They were very strict and made the children repeat and repeat their lines until they were heard from the last row. Harriet was naturally loud, the loudest, so the group had to live up to her standards. Seventeen years on, she is still struck by stage fright: “At curtain-up time, I just want to run, dash off and I would be half way down Main Street before they notice I’m missing... then I step forward, and it is all forgotten.”

If her career as a professional thespian is on hold at the moment, the passion is still burning bright, and she can’t imagine what she would become without such panoply of drama in her life: “I went through difficult times recently, and if it wasn’t for my commitment to theatre, I don’t know where I would be today.”

Indeed, Margaret Seed popularised this very British theatrical genre in Gibraltar, enhanced with a local unique flavour that would be a shame to see extinct, particularly because it is the annual show that children look forward to participating in on both sides of the spotlights, as actors or spectators. Either side, they get to yell out loud their lines or cheers and jeers.

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arts words | Richard Cartwright

ACADEMY OF MUSIC & ARTS A place where you can professionally learn any instument...

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the mini studios – two in some), drums, any years ago local musician Productions who also had an interest in Hector Cortes gave his all seeing a full blown academy get off the clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, flute, French setting up a ‘music centre’ in ground, “That’s true,” Christian confirms, horn, trombone, violin, cello… even bonWellington Front which ran “The Government was right behind the gos! And if applications come forth for other instruments, the academy for a number of years… In the end, things idea and our companies have There’s a big can accommodate those requests didn’t work out and he left for the UK. He come together to set this up.” felt interest shown from certain quarters Cathy too has been promoting too - and because it is housed in selection of for the ongoing project was just not there music for children for a number instruments to a magazine bunker, noise to upset and the centre closed… Before that, even of years and has been producthe neighbours is not an issue, choose from. the walls are so thick! Qualified Father Charles Caruana had ing the Gibraltar Festival teachers are available in all of also started a music academy. for Young Musicians The academy the above. So far, in the region of 350 during this time. is situated at students have applied and registered, and It could be argued the the end of Flat according to the work sheets, bookings are Wellington Front attempt was Bastion Road. The academy is situated at the slotting in fast. Christian tells me response the precursor to what has been end of Flat Bastion Road past the has been incredible which shows how achieved today at the other end arch just before you come into of the Rock – the top end, at Flat Bastion Gardiner’s Road. There is a large sign at the much an academy of this sort was needed for our youngsters to potentially follow in Road. These are indeed, new beginnings gates so it can’t be missed. Inside, there the footsteps of other Gibraltarian greats for the local performing arts fraternity… is a main hall and a number of studios for – Albert Hammond, Karel Chichon, William “Round about the middle of last year, we one to one, or ‘pairs’ tuition.

Gomez, Hector Cortes, Charles Ramirez started to get the ball rolling and slowly reand any number of pop groups, too many cruiting and by September, we were holdIf you’re interested in learning an instruto mention… “But it’s not just that, many ing preliminary exams,” Principal Christian ment, there’s a big selection to choose individuals may want to learn an instruSantos tells me. He’s assisted by vice from and tuition can be given in almost ment simply for his or her own pleasure principal Cathy Bachelor of Alegro Music any instrument: guitar, piano (one in all

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arts “We’re very keen in promoting drama too.”

to entertain themselves at home. I know of one person in particular, a lawyer, who plays the piano very well but has stuck to law. He plays the piano for his own entertainment and leisure, proving the point the academy is not just for children and teenagers, it’s open to adults also who may want to learn an instrument.” Christian and Cathy have clearly worked out where they want to go with the project although ideas may be tried and tested, thrown out and other ideas developed…”You see, principally, what we’re doing here, is providing a hub for cohesive music education with ideas based on a similar model that I created for Santos Productions. We have lots of beginners that have signed on so that’s also good to start them off from scratch.”

Apart from plenty of admin to be getting on with, Christian’s forte comes into play also… voices, choirs, ensembles – all to do with that other musical instrument, the voice! Christian continues with his choir and other Santos Productions as in plays and comedies, so his workload is a heavy one. At the Academy, the Gibraltar Youth Choir is busy rehearsing and Christian is adamant that the teaching level be maintained across the board. There’s a festival coming up in March, and exams in June in pop/rock and classical… “Eventually, we’ll develop a youth orchestra which will, in time, become an adult orchestra like we had in the past,” Christian enthuses. There are lots of options in a set up such as this one. We can hold ensemble workshops, groups, one to one and paired tuitions.

There are many opportunities like singing and acting too, and we’d like to encourage multi instrumentalists, “We’re working on the possibility of scholarships for two gifted children and others who can’t afford paying tuition fees… Bursaries are a possibility also.”

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On the Rock, we’re already well catered for in the dance genre with a number of associations and academies for the young and the not so young, as in ballroom dancing, but drama workshops are lacking, especially considering the welcomed interest in putting on plays for the Drama Festival and other performances and that’s where Christian’s experience comes into play also, “Yes, we’ve spoken a lot about the music side of what’s on offer at the academy but we’re very keen in promoting drama also, so anyone interested in acting should come along too.” Christian did his university degree in Contemporary Arts and Music Performing and later obtained a post graduate in Acting and Musical Theatre in London. His CV is extremely impressive and more than qualifies him

for the role he’s undertaken. He’s a tenor/ high baritone, has performed in films and TV series on Channel Four and BBC1 and on the London stage where he still travels to, to produce ensemble pieces for West End showcases. More notably perhaps, he was ‘Vocal Captain,’ for Disney cruises for two years and also spent four years in that role in Disneyland Tokyo! Locally, there’s a lot he’s done with his production company Santos Productions including producing and presenting Miss Gibraltar pageants…

One of those shows produced a Miss World, Kaiane Aldorino, whom he coached and presented originally as Miss Gibraltar in 2009!

Now, he’s totally engrossed in the academy and says, “The Gibraltar Academy of Music and Performing Arts, is not elitist.

We want to make it all inclusive, so it’s open to everyone at any level or wanting to start from scratch, so beginners are very welcome…” And Christian is very emphatic about that point: learning to read music, to play an instrument or instruments, acting, singing in the choir or beginning to understand music in the Music Instrument Club open to four to seven year olds. Tuition at the academy is from 4pm to 8pm, Mondays to Fridays and from 10am to 2pm on Saturdays. If you’re interested you should pop up and find out more, there are plenty of options to explore.

So, it’s a new dawn forming part of new beginnings for 2016 in the challenging and exciting world of music and acting… Have a think, not just for your kids but for yourself too, you may have a ‘performer’ within you, dying to burst out onto the stage… go for it! “The academy

is not just for children and teenagers...”

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SO FRESH SO CLEAN New Year, new you, new wardrobe?

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t’s time to utter a very long awaited too drastic a proposition, especially when welcome to your 2016 look book. After you take into account that many of us will a December where Gibraltar’s social have splurged on clothes or received items calendar has been muchly dominated as gifts over the festive season. Instead, by parties often characterised by think of this as a helpful guide to too much make up, constricting assist you through the murky waters “Out with gowns and high heels, I think we of streamlining your wardrobe after a the old are all looking forward to slipping and in with month which can be described as a off those party frocks, dusting haze of sparkle and excess. the new.” off any glitter still lingering from New Year’s Eve and a fresh start.

Sale Shopping We are all familiar with the saying “Out with the old and in with the new”, these words are all the more resonant this time of year as people look to making new year’s resolutions, reinventing themselves and new beginnings in general. I can’t help but agree, after all, with a whole year ahead filled with promise and potential, what time would be more fitting to freshen up your wardrobe?

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coveted mere days ago are now being sold at a fraction of the price?! However, it is important to remember you are not alone in this seasonal scurry to the bargains and therefore, unsurprisingly, the first rule is to get in early, make sure you get there within the first two days of the Sale beginning ideally on the first day, to avoid being left with the dregs.

The second rule to follow is not to compromise on size (this is also why it’s important to get in early). You may really love a particular item but let’s face it; will you love to wear it if it doesn’t fit perfectly?

Shopping in January is almost solely characterised by Sales. The rules of sale shopping are simple and in a way somewhat sacred - stick by them in order to survive the madness What time and skillfully navigate the choppy waters that are overcrowded would be more fitting sale-ridden shops. We have all to freshen been in the clutches of desup your peration in the midst of some discount sale, and is that at all wardrobe? surprising when you consider that many garments which we

Last but not least... it’s important to take on Sales with an open mind. The nature of sale shopping is unpredictable, you can’t go with a fixed idea about what you want as you never know exactly what you’re going to find, but that’s all part of the fun, right?

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fashion Spruce up those jeans

Double denim

Everyone has those old faithful’s which they are all too happy to pull on for a whole spectrum of occasions, often ranging from visits to the supermarket, strolling through town, wading through airports and dress down days at the office - but to name a few. However, denim needn’t be samey, why not update your classic jeans by trading in the same tired hues of distressed blues for an injection of colour?

Think coral, khaki or maroon, perhaps even red if you’re feeling adventurous. But, if you simply cannot detach yourself from blue, opt for a deep shade like a cobalt or indigo.

If good old fashioned blue denim really is your classic staple then fear not, it is still possible to freshen up the classic look. Take inspiration from the double denim so synonymous of early nineties grunge and not that of Justin Timberlake’s and Britney Spears’ 2001 American Music Awards denim overload catastrophe (if you don’t remember the look then google it and prepare to cringe!). It is possible to bring some serious class to this trend as reflected on the catwalks in fashion shows for high end designer Chloe who had this look down to perfection in their Spring/ Summer 2010 fashion shows. Fast-forward to 2015 and this trend still stands strong - a true testament of its cult status.

With January lending itself to more casual attire with its lack of festive cheer or social engagements, there simply is no better time to keep it cool in double denim. When doing so, please stick to this one golden rule: never wear two identical shades of denim all at once, contrast is key!

Nudes The glitter make up reminiscent of the Bond and Great Gatsby themed New Year’s parties have evaporated into something cleaner and more natural as the New Year takes hold.

Think neutral eye palettes and rosy springtime blends for lips. The great thing about neutral make up is that it can look effortless if done correctly.

Flats Heels are not the only shoes to pack a punch and after a season of torturous stilettos, a more comfortable option is greatly welcomed. Luckily, there are a whole host of flats to tempt you from luxe loafers to dressed up low top trainers in tweed and snake print. Even the likes of Jimmy Choo are trying their hand at casual footwear, with their own take on the classic vans trainer - the result being the rare combination of comfort and style. However, for a more purse friendly option, go for vans themselves or some delightful offerings from Kurt Geiger.

Never wear two identical shades of denim all at once...

Minimalism

MOTO burgundy Leigh jeans £38 Topshop Yono shirt in light indigo £75 Allsaints Khaki low rise zip Amelie super skinny jeans £45 River Island Snake print slip on trainers £42 Miss KG 66

Forget sequins, tassels and feathers. Think French fashion giant Celine who are renowned for their clean cut minimalism. As we step into January why not embrace some simple basics? Think of this exercise as a palette cleanser, seamlessly bridging the gap between elaborate December dressing and the spring time trends that will soon follow.

Few things are as timeless as a crisp white shirt - simply pair it with smart tailoring to achieve instant minimalist chic.

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The rules of sale shopping are simple and in a way somewhat sacred...

Long sleeve shirt £29.99 ZARA Azalea Trouser Reiss £125 Lonnis faux pony skin & leather loafers £99 French connection

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NAVIGATING NEW ZEALAND - thrill seeking, seals, and untouched terrains

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icture it: a snow-tipped mountainous landscape, wild fresh-water ravines sliding down culminating in a crystal clear lake whose mirror-like surface reflects the natural scenery around it. Sheep dominating the emerald green rolling hills, the sky a perfect hue of azure, Legolas riding his horse into battle... for those of you who have seen Lord of the Rings, I can tell you with confidence that the scenery is just as awe inspiring as it is in the movies. Probably Size isn’t even more so; the lack of orcs makes it a prettier sight. everything.

This relatively small country is often overlooked due to its larger, arguably more popular neighbour Australia. However, size isn’t everything and having lived in both countries I’ve come out with a preference for New Zealand. This land of the sheep and Kiwis (an informal name for the residents of New Zealand as well as their adorable long-beaked native bird) is broken up into two main islands - North GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

and South. You’re likely to experience long journey home, which from England pretty hot weather very similar to can take around 30 hours (bare Gibraltar all over during summer with me - it’s worth it, I promise!).

A minimum of months, but the South is better two weeks on known for it’s alpine skyline and North Island each island is ski resorts while the North is recommended. Auckland is the biggest city in home to some of the most beautiful sandy beaches you’ll have New Zealand, and the second the privilege of digging your toes into. most spread out city in the world! It’s home to approximately a third of all Kiwis, Even a holiday of eight weeks would be but is still nowhere near as crowded as two months too soon (I originally intended other large cities. It’s regularly ranked to stay for this length of time and left a among the top five cities for liveability and year and a half later!) but however long quality of life, and as one of the world’s your visit, there are some key places and top ten cities by Lonely Planet! If you’re just activities that should definitely be slotted fleetingly passing through, here are some into your itinerary even on a whistle-stop things you should check out: trip. Travel agents can offer you hop-on hop-off coach tours of New Zealand, such The Sky Tower - The Sky Tower looks over as the Kiwi Experience backpacker package, the entire city and is the tallest free-standor if you’d prefer to be more in control ing structure in the Southern Hemisphere. of your itinerary, I would suggest hiring a For the equivalent of £35 you can enjoy camper van. A minimum of two weeks on a scrumptious three-course meal in the each island is recommended if only to re360-degree revolving restaurant at the cover from your jet-lag and prepare for the very top, or you can just pay to go up to 69

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the observation deck and enjoy the panyou reach the country’s only ocean-touch oramic views. If you’re up for something a bungee jump. Certainly a different way to little more daring, you can hurl yourself off enjoy the views of Auckland! the top of the tower, harnessed, of course.

The Sky Jump is the only base jump by wire Auckland Domain is another spot well in New Zealand and sends you hurtling toworth visiting. A large green park with wards the ground at 85km per hour. Living sports fields, ponds and lakes (take some near the Sky Tower in an apartment with bread with you!), forest walking trails and a rooftop balcony, my lunch the Winter Gardens. Slightly elevated breaks were punctuated with on a grassy hill, the War Memorial ...you can blood-curdling screams of Sky Museum bestrides the Domain. This is hurl yourself probably the most important museum Jumpers in the distance. off the top in New Zealand, housing information If you half like the idea of it but of the tower. on the country’s natural and military are slightly terrified, you can try history. The building itself is equally as the Sky Walk - a 360 walk around the top impressive; you can spot the Neoclassical of the tower on a narrow ledge adverarchitecture from a mile off. tised as “no handrail, nothing but thin air and the city 192 metres below”. It’s more From Auckland, you have a few choices pleasant than it sounds. You’re harnessed on where to go next, all of them excellent. up and have a guide who walks you round Further up north you’ll find the Bay of and tells you all about the local points of Islands, which boasts 144 islands as well interest, while challenging you to some as scores of secluded bays - paradise! “daredevil” tricks. I swung off the side and Not only is it easy on the eye, it’s also the nearly lost my lunch in the process. site of some pretty integral Kiwi history, which I will do my best to condense and If you enjoy throwing yourself off tall struc- gussy up: The Bay of Islands were named tures, give the Auckland Harbour Bridge a

by Captain James Cook, a British cartoggo. After a bridge climb to the jump pod, rapher, explorer, navigator AND captain

in the Royal Navy. Pre-1800s the only inhabitants were the local Maori tribes but once people had caught wind of Cook’s maps of the area people came flocking.

Eventually, this gave way to some barnyard behaviours and questionable antics that left little consideration for the Maori way of life, and gave the popular trading port of Kororāreka (today known as Russell) the moniker “Hellhole of the Pacific”. (Quite the change from its original name, which roughly translates to “how sweet is the penguin” in Maori.) In the 19th century, a Mr. James Busby arrived with the intenAuckland Winter Gardens

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tion of “protecting British commerce and putting an end to the outrages perpetrated by British subjects against the Maori” and together with Royal Navy officer Captain William Hobson, they drew up the Waitangi Treaty. Essentially, this treaty gave Britain sovereignty over New Zealand and established a British Governor.

If you take a trip up to the Bay of Islands you can visit the Waitangi Treaty Grounds where this very treaty was signed, and learn more about the fascinating history behind modern New Zealand life. You can also visit a traditional carved Maori meeting house, known as a Wharenui, and take a peek at a real Maori war canoe. Today the Bay of Islands are better known as one

of the biggest tourist regions in the North, the ground, or simply enjoy the serenity of a place drenched in beauty and the lake. surrounded by beaches and This city rocky coastlines. It’s an affordAnother four hours of driving southis said to able pit-stop for backpackers ward brings you to the capital of New have more and is host to a number of popZealand and your final destination of restaurants ular activities such as swimming the North Island: Wellington. This city and bars per is said to have more restaurants and with dolphins, snorkeling and capita than kayaking around the islands in bars per capita than New York, and, New York... the magnificent bluey-green perhaps more importantly, is known waters, cruises and fishing trips. as the craft beer capital. Grab some fish and chips and head up Mount Victoria where you can watch the ferries dip in and On your way down south, stop off at Lake Taupo, the largest freshwater lake in New out of the harbour while you sit on the grassy slope. This peaceful stop over reZealand and second largest in Oceania at 238 square miles. You can go honey tastminded me of being back home, sitting up ing, visit the impressive Huka Falls, warm the Rock and watching the activity below yourself on the thermals steaming out of as the sun went down and lights came on.

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travel such as visit the impressive Cardboard Cathedral, but to maximise your time I would recommend continuing your trip swiftly down south. By this point, you’ll be noticing a whole lot less people and a whole lot more sheep (did you know sheep outnumber New Zealanders 6 to 1?!). You can sometimes find yourself driving for up to half an hour without encountering another soul on the road. The signposting down here leaves a lot to be desired, so make sure you have some form of GPS with you.

As you cut across from east to west coast, you’ll pass by a huge mountain named Aoraki (meaning ‘cloud-piercer’ in Maori) perhaps more famously known by it’s European name, Mount Cook (that’s the work of James again). Mount Cook is where all of the climbing scenes in The Fellowship of the Ring were shot and is the highest in New Zealand at 3000 metres. Providing you have a little It really climbing experience, you can make does feel like Frodo and attempt to scale this like you’re impressive glaciated peak.

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to the picturesque waterfall, where you’ll be able to watch fur seal pups having a splash. As you’re driving down along the on top of South Island coast, take a closer look at the rocks near the water’s the world! Further to the west, near the coast, edge - some of them might actuyou’ll get to another of my favourite ally be seals! You can spot them South Island destinations, Franz Josef. This in their natural habitat, sunning themselves area is most well known for the two large and lazing about the rocks. bodies of ice that descend from the high

From Wellington, take the ferry down to the South Island. From here you can carry on down along the east coast to one of my favourite spots - Kaikoura. This serene, stripped-back mini town is less saturated with tourists than other South Island spots.

You can book a boat trip out to go whale watching at a tour agency whose address is appropriately “The Whaleway Station, Whaleway Road”. The boat is small, and Christchurch homes the second most popout of twelve of us, only five made it the ular airport as it is where most internationfull two hours without our head down al airlines fly to after Auckland. You may a complimentary sick bag, have heard about the earthquakes but it was still worth it. The Mount Cook of 2010-11 whose debilitating sheer size of the whales and is where all of effects brought down most of the watching them breach next to city’s buildings. Four years on and the climbing the boat was an unforgettable you can still feel the impact of scenes in The experience. If you find yourthese severe earthquakes, despite Fellowship of the self in Kaikoura, take yourself all the reconstruction. There are Ring were shot. along Ohau stream and walk still things to do in Christchurch, Franz Josef Glacier

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mountains: The Franz Josef Glacier and the Fox Glacier. I opted for the heli-hike (so technically I can still say I ‘hiked’ the glacier) which takes you up and across the glacier in a helicopter dropping you off at the very peak. With the combination of altitude, untouched snowy peaks and breathtaking views, it really does feel like you’re on top of the world! You can, of course, actually hike up if you wish. You can hire ice picks, footwear and all other hiking paraphernalia in the town before

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navigating through the maze of ice that makes up the Franz Josef Glacier. The guided tours promise an extraordinary land of glistening blue ice, punctuated with towering peaks, and there are even some hot springs to defrost yourself in, nearby.

from June to October, as well as its year-round sky diving, bungee jumping, rafting and ridiculously scenic views. Definitely a place to visit for Sierra Nevada lovers. Once you’ve satisfied your inner adventurer you can head to Queenstown’s airport, bringing you to the end of your journey and the beginning of your voyage back home.

Queenstown

Walk to the picturesque waterfall to watch fur seal pups having a splash and sunning themselves.

Carrying on further down south is Queenstown, or ‘Middle Earth’. If you’re a fan of the LOTR trilogy you can take a tour round all the filming So, if you’re sitting at home clutching locations and even visit Hobbiton! travel brochures waiting for a place to Choosing to ‘freedom camp’ here grab your attention, this could be it! was one of my better This piece has only scratched made travel decisions. I the surface of what New I slept in the slept in the most beaumost beautiful, Zealand has to offer. With its tiful, secluded valley stunning views and wildlife, secluded with the lake, sheep, valley with the a place of adventure and mountains and not much indulgence, you’re sure to lake, sheep, else. Queenstown is best be planning your return trip mountains and before you’ve even touched known for its world class ski and snowboard season not much else. back down on the Rock.

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LLANITOS ON TOUR The beauty and art of guided tours

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The Europeans have a different mentality, he human race’s passion for travis definitely a sector of the public who are they are usually a little bit more comfortelling is unwavering. looking for something interesting.’

Our unanimous desire Gibraltarians able with their surroundings, they’re used are keen to explore countries to hearing different languages and going through borders.’ Mammoth web based and cultures unlike our own holidaymakers. Travel trends travel site, TripAdvisor, which has behas built and incredible global Denise has a wealth of industry come an essential tool for holidaymakers, tourism industry. Gibraltar knowledge behind her, having jumped befairs highly within the industry, proudtween tour operators across the world. Her restaurateurs, hoteliers, tour operators and ly deeming it one of the main pillars of all the other middlemen in the industry, career in tourism spans twenty-six years, predicts that trends in 2016 will see travour economy. Just like everybody else, having been initiated in Canada where she ellers ‘seeking new experiences’, ‘spending Gibraltarians are keen holidaymakers. In worked as a travel agent for last minute more because it’s worth it’, and scouting recent times, the Internet has facilitated and corporate bookings. Denise then out holidays based on culture and special our ability to book and organise holidays moved on to work in Switzerland where ourselves, leaving travel agents slightly in offers on flights or accommodation. Their she scored a position as a tour guide on predictions are based on a survey of the dark. Gibraltarian Denise DeVincenzi cruises, offering tours via land 44,000 holidaymakers and hoteliers. is merging the use of travel agents and the and coach for eighteen years. ‘I 2016 will Based on the analysis of millions internet through her new venture, Atlas worked with a North American see travellers of flight searches and qualitative Tour Management, an online service that market and these people ‘seeking new offers bespoke tours to Gibraltarians hunresearch Skyscanner, a search engine love to go everywhere, as experiences’... for flights, hotels and car hires, pregry for cultural excursions. ‘It’s different, Gibraltarians do now. I would dicts that 2016 will see a rise in trips innovative, interesting and breaks away have to say, and this is not to locations like the Azores, Cuba, thanks from the norm,’ she tells me. ‘Because I’ve because of the recent international scene, to restored diplomatic relations with the done various special interest tours over the but they tend less to go to Middle Eastern US, Japan, Copenhagen in Denmark which years, I have that knowledge and backcountries. They like to be accompanied ground. It’s targeted at Gibraltarians. There was recently voted ninth most reputaeverywhere and book everything they can.

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pledges to locate a venue, and organise the travel arrangements and tours for Other tours target stag and visiting guests. Art and history lovers can treat themselves to tours following hen parties, the theme of ancient battle, covering offering ground in Turkey and Greece, and weekends in French impressionism, all along the Paris...

French Riviera. Denise is insistent that her service extends to entirely original custom made tours that the client can have as much, or as little involvement in putting together, as they wish. The most recent addition to the website is a four night stay in Iceland marvelling at glaciers, volcanoes, and beaches overrun by puffins. Denise tells me that these tours are hugely popular, particularly when offering holidaymakers an opportunity to see the northern lights. Her ideas far exceed the options currently available on ATM’s website, in the future she hopes to offer adventure tours in Latin American countries, trekking through jungles and marvelling at archaeological sights. One tour that will surely be snapped up quickly by locals is the wine trip in Santorini, organised in conjunction with a local wine supplier. Teaming up to offer holidays in conjunction with other corporate partners is certainly in Denise’s sightline.

‘There’re a lot of associations and companies that I can direct myself to through my offering of company incentives.

Are we still using travel agents?

I wonder if there is still an incentive for travel agencies and tour operators, with many travelers so keen to organise their own trips, scouring the internet for bargains and using budget websites to compare accommodation prices. Denise is adamant that holidaymakers are still very much keen on having their trips organised for them. ‘It’s often the older generation who aren’t so savvy with Art and history

ble city in the world, and stunning West African Island, Sal in Cape Verde.

Denise’s venture, Atlas Tour Management, was launched last month and is already offering a handful of travel experiences, including the Gibraltarian Cuisine Rediscovered tour which offers holiday makers a four night stay in Liguria, Italy, where much of the inspiration for Gibraltarian cooking stems. A minimum group of eighteen people will be guided around Genoa and ‘Cinque Terre, Portofino, the most picturesque of the fishing villages on the Riviera, & Santa Margherita Ligure’ exploring food markets, food demonstrations and wine and cheese tastings. Other tours target stag and hen parties, offering weekends in Paris, visiting ‘famous perfumeries and designer atelier’s’ and experiencing French cuisine. Or for those searching for the perfect wedding experience, ATM 76

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them by the Gibraltar Tourist Board. ‘There computers and are not really sure on how travelling through. You need to know your is no training per se for the actual art of to get around a place, and even others destination very well. You’re also dealing guiding,’ she notes. She runs through a list who just can’t be bothered or don’t have with all sorts of personalities, people are of responsibilities required of tour managthe time and want someone to do the people all over the world, we all have the ers, ranging from troubleshooting, how to footwork for them. Also, through agencies, same characteristics in many ways and there is more of a safety net, in case some- give proper commentary and handling and people will travel with their problems and managing and being responsible for thing goes wrong. An agency you may need to be very firm and forththe technical part of the tour itineris always going to be working She hopes to right with them.’ ary.

‘Let me give you an example of with reputable airlines and offer adventure how on the ball you have to be with tour operators.’ The American Denise’s workshop, which is looking to tours in Latin these things. If you’re on the road, Society of Travel Agents cost around £150, will offer an insight into America... you need to be working continuously giving commentary on tours, accommoclaim that 80% of travel sold approximately seventy-two hours in the US is done so by the dating your group through learning about ahead of your destinations. In many cases, 64,000 agencies found in North America, them and how they can get the best out if you don’t reconfirm bookings at museas opposed to online. Does traveling on of the tour. Denise will also teach those ums, restaurants, hotels, they’ll cancel you. an organised tour add a significant cost to at the workshop about memorization and the trip, though? ‘Independently organizing You have to be consistently how to handle everything from aireverything on your own will see costs start confirming. There are a lot of Tour managers port issues and troubleshooting. The logistical things you have to to add up on airport transfers, museum workshop will end with a day tour are met entrance fees, meals, site guides, and other troubleshoot, like people who to Seville, where students will be with a lot of forms of transport. Many museums and art might be consistently late, you offered a hands on tour experience. pressure and have to make the decision on galleries are booked many months ahead Speaker from the Gibraltar Tourist whether to leave them behind responsibility... Board will offer their expertise to the and you also bypass all of the queues,’ and have one upset person, Denise explains, ‘having a Tour Manager students also. Denise pledges to disand thirty-two happy people.’ Tour guiding also ensures that all the technical and cuss how to build an appropriate CV to apoffers individuals an incredible oplogistical components of the proach tour operators with. ‘There’s a huge portunity to travel around the world, tour go off without a hitch.’ amount of turnover for freelancers, one “There is no and meet new people. ‘Before you of the companies that I freelance for, their training per se know it,’ Denise grins, ‘you’ve beEurope product has gone up by 85% for Jumping into the industry for the actual come very well rounded in European 2016, so that means they will need a lot of art of guiding.” art history. You also become a real help, and they are willing to train up peoAnother service veteran foodie, it is very appealing.’ On the ple. The months of May, June, September tour manager Denise will be flipside, tour managers are met with a and October are very busy. They often offering as from next month is a threelot of pressure and responsibility. Denise have to reach out to freelancers to take day workshop on how to handle a group also mentions that most European tour on tours for them.’ Those interested in professionally, ‘whether it be for a half managers can speak an average of four signing up to the course, which will take day tour in Gibraltar, or for two weeks at languages. ‘It might sound like it’s really place between 22nd and 24th February can a time when you are with your passenglamorous, but it’s a lot of hard work and apply via info@atlastourmanagement.com. gers twenty-four seven. As far as Denise studying. For example, you may have to fill The opportunity is a terrific starting point is aware, tour guides on the Rock are in seven-hour bus journeys. People want for those looking to break into the tourism currently not required to undergo any to know about the surroundings they’re industry, without knowing exactly how. formal training, bar a short exam put to GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

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CYCLING INTO 2016 The rise of the Gibraltar Cycle Club

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compete in the Island and Commonwealth ith the New Year comes attractive with high traffic and busy roads.’

Games on behalf of Gibraltar, both in the inevitable pang of post The club is made up of ninety members, Christmas must do some with many of them actively participating cycling and triathlon.’ exercise guilt. For many, the in weekly rides to Castellar and Jimena. new start serves as an oppor‘We tend to ride between 50 and 150 Cycling’s cool again! tunity to seize the motivation kilometres. Over the last year and a “It’s great to to work out that they might half we’ve had a drive to increase the Bern and Jawaad’s aim is to shrug off any get out to have otherwise been silencpressure that interested cyclists may feel Spain where membership through beginners rides ing, towards the end of 2015. each month. Out of all our members, I about joining members, who could come the roads are think we only have either four or five across as slightly intimidatingly competitive extensive women, so it would be great to get One sport that has picked and professional in their Isolas sponsored and fairly more women involved. There is a bit up significantly in Gibraltar is riding gear. There really is no qualifying quiet.” of a difference of standard between cycling, particularly through factor to joining the group, all they request women and men in cycling, and so the Gibraltar Cycling Club, is that they bring along a bike and keenwe’ve been approached to hold which has been in existence since April ness for meeting new and like-mindwomen’s only rides.’ The first of Members 2014. Two of its founding members, Bern ed individuals. On a global scale these was held last month, with Valarino and Jawaad Bokhari are keen to cycling is a huge movement, both as range from approximately ten riders having further promote the club as an excellent a professional sport and a casual past pensioners to turned up. ‘We’re not competmeans for socializing and keeping fit. time or mode of transport. With big really young itive, it’s all-social and training, ‘There’s such a great social element to cities like London opting to invest people... although we do have some it, we have social rides every weekend, in self-service bike rental schemes, group members who are comand even sometimes during the week,’ to promote emission free transport petitively minded, we also have beginners.

Bern tells me, ‘it’s great to get out to and keeping fit, cycling in everyday life has Members range from pensioners, to really Spain where the roads are extensive and become cool again. The Government of young people who are keen cyclists who fairly quiet. Cycling in Gibraltar isn’t very Gibraltar recently announced the initiation 78

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sport of a similar hire scheme here on the Rock, young ages. They have grassroots prooffering docking stations in key areas. The grammes to participate in.’ Jawaad explains Club has illustrated a keenness that whilst cycling has predominantly to work with the Government proved to be a male dominated sport, There and the main cycling authority in really is no there has been a shift in the UK, Gibraltar, the Cycling Association. ‘there’s absolutely no reason why it qualifying ‘We want to hold more local should be that way. The UK now has factor to events to promote cycling as a some of the best female cyclists in the joining the world, so it is changing for sure and sport. It’s often very professiongroup... alised. I was at the Island Games we’d like to see that change in Gib. this year, and it’s really difficult We think it would to rank highly on the podium.’ Bern and be a real shame to hold Cycling in Jawaad bounce off each other, both men Island Games cycling everyday life clearly have a passion for pedal pushing. events in Gibraltar, with ‘At these kinds of competitions you have no women competing on has become countries that have a real infrastructure, behalf of the Rock.’ cool again... developing at a much higher rate and very

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No official government policy Even in terms of casual cycling, Gibraltar is behind the times. During the 2013 summer frontier queue clamp down, many cyclists gave up on the notion of using their bicycles as transport to and from work because they were often left to wait in queues for hours. ‘Gibraltar isn’t the best place for cycling. I’m quite honest about this. The roads aren’t necessarily in the best of states and are very narrow and whilst it may be difficult for a Gibraltarian to admit, culturally, cycling isn’t really an accepted form of transport here.’ The two tell me that notwithstanding the imminent bike hire scheme, the Government has

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no official policy on cycling. In the draft Sustainable Traffic, Transport and Parking Plan unveiled in 2014, the Government outlined a potential future initiative to encourage cycling on the Rock, through the construction of ‘off-road routes [that]

would remove the potential of “Fifty cycle or vehicle conflicts.’ The kilometres draft details the outline of a is what any cycle route network, although ‘a beginner comprehensive Cycle Strategy has yet to be developed for the should aim City.’ Key aims of the strategy are to be able noted as; improving facilities and to do.” conditions for travel by cycle, and pushing promotional activities. A pilot phase of investment into establishing a ‘core cycle route’ around Gibraltar is further discussed. Although Minister for Traffic and Transport, Paul Balban did not touch on cycling directly in his budget speech to parliament this summer, he did mention that the draft plan’s public consultation period had ended and consultants were compiling a database of the responses received. He further commented that the final version of the plan ‘is earmarked for completion before the end of this year.’ Speaking on behalf of many of the

group’s members, Jawaad says, ‘if you feel safe, you’ll get on your bicycle.’ Spain is apparently a lot more accommodating to cyclists, giving them more leeway on the roads by law. The Gibraltar Cycling club has put forward proposals to the Government, requesting more bike lanes and better infrastructure.

Riding to Jimena The few beginners’ rides that have already been held have led to a few new members purchasing new bikes and joining the club as The roads to fully-fledged members. The Jimena de la active members of the club, Frontera, a 50 km cross a spectrum of abilities and fitness levels, ‘we’ve got stretch from the guys who just take it really Rock, are pathed easy because that’s the stage with foliage and they are at and they just enjoy local fauna... a social ride up to Castellar to have a coffee and breakfast, and then we’ve got members training for the Commonwealth Games who are very focused and determined, and we’ve got everyone in between.’ Both riders insist that all members are very accommodating of one another. ‘If you’re in a group and someone might be having an off day, as happens to everybody, there will be certain stops when everyone regroups.’

The roads to Jimena de la Frontera, a 50 km stretch from the Rock, are pathed with foliage and local fauna, with most of the routes following quieter dual carriageways and country roads, offering views of local fruit tree orchards and the Guadiaro River.

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a designated cycle track attached to it. hills are always difficult but that’s part of members, ‘it really depends on what you On their ride back from the cycling, it gets easier want, some people are not comenchantingly historical and as you get stronger.’ fortable with having thin tyres. It’s A pilot phase of The UK quaint town, the group travels Members of the club this now has important to first determine what investment into past the refinery, through year banded together establishing a some of the kind of cycling someone wants Palmones and Puente Mayorga, to participate in the ‘core cycle route’ best female to do. If you’re going to spend a route that Jawaad claims to competitive cycle, La maybe 30 – 40% of your time around Gibraltar is cyclists in be much safer. ‘Fifty kilometres Sufrida. ‘We do take part off-road then maybe consider a further discussed. the world... mountain bike.’ Touching on the is what any beginner should in other big events in aim to be able to do. It usually Sierra Nevada and the fitness element of cycling, Bern takes around three hours for the entire Pyranees. Although not races, they are notes that it burns fat like no other form duration of the ride, including breakfast.’ tough amateur endurance events.’ of exercise, speeding up your metabolism Late last month, the club held their annual significantly. It is also low impact, unlike Christmas ride on the 20th December, once The weather does not faze the derunning, which takes its toll on again accommodating any beginners. A your bones and joints. Surely, that termined riders, Jay says, explaining favourite ride for the two men should be enough information to that in the colder months many It burns is the route to Ronda and back, bring in new members. Both men cyclists lock up their road bikes fat like “Gibraltar no other an eight-hour ride, meandering extend their welcome to any keen in favour of mountain bikes, isn’t the through the mountains. ‘Ronda’s riders, urging to borrow a bike from form of to carry out more off road best place a very special place to cycle to rides. The two men insist that exercise... a friend or family member and join for cycling.” there is no one set of bicycle them on the Gibraltar side of the with some of the most beautiful landscape in the world. The frontier on Sundays at 9am. specifications they suggest to

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first approaches one of them, when they deem treatments offered by colleagues to be more beneficial.

tai-chi, dietetics and more. The variety of therapies pledges to assist in alleviating the most diverse medical conditions, acute or chronic, physical or mental, without limiting or sentencing oneself to popping pills for life.

So far, the association has been promoted by word of mouth and satisfied customers’ recommendations. Any practitioner willing to ‘join the club’ can contact Krishna A medical doctor specialised in the best of both worlds, having trained in reiki, acuThe brainchild of Dr and have their practice featured in the Patients are scroll box of his sleekly designed webpuncture, Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine Krishna Rawal, the Gibraltar appreciated after his graduation, Dr Rawal highlights Association of Complementary site gibacp.com. Before linking them, as their and Alternative Practitioners he will check their credentials, to make how patients must not rely solely on alterown person. sure that the reputation of profesenlists by specialty - and free native medicine or on self-medication, but sionalism is consistent throughout, in must seek medical help first and then turn of charge - the qualified therto complementary medicine to make them apists available in Gibraltar and promotes a world where alternative medicine is too whole again once the ailment is the benefits of alternative medicine in oroften regarded as charlatanism. cured – or surgically removed if der to boost the subject’s confidence and “A therapist comfort, where patients are appreciated as necessary, whereas alternative So far, some forty therapists works their own person, with their lives, families, medicine is never invasive. are listed for aesthetics, life jobs, friendships, hobbies, hopes, fears coaching, meditation, Ayurveda, alongside your GP or specialist, “A therapist works on the holistic and beliefs kept into account, rather than cranio-sacral therapy, herbnot instead of.” treating ‘just a medical condition’. al medicine, aromatherapy, approach to wellbeing, alongside relaxation, stress management, your GP or specialist, not instead of,” he explains. “Doctors make you well, The practitioners form a network and are reflexology, osteopathy, counselling, hyptherapists keep you well.” able to refer to each other any patient that notherapy, homeopathy, personal training,

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health Patients can indeed discuss with their GP or specialist what alternative therapy may help their condition, and usually they will be directed to the one(s) most suitable to their medical case. Once the treatment has run its course, health becomes a lifestyle issue: “Alternative medicine is about realising or restoring your full potential and making you enjoy life to the fullest with high levels of energy and positivity.”

Dr Rawal attributes the allegations of hippy nonsense, witchcraft or downright quackery thrown at alternative medicine, not just by the man in the street but also by the mainstream medical community, to the fact that science progresses mostly on clinical evidence, while conclusive evidence is trickier to obtain with alternative medicine.

“Often, we witness a treatment work, we know that it works, but we cannot put our finger on why and how exactly “Alternative it does. A quick example: when medicine is testing new medication, the usual procedure is administering it to about realising patients without telling them or restoring your whether it’s an actual drug they’re full potential” taking or just candy: that way, suggestion will not play a part in the bility remains its cost as a private practice. actual result. In fact, the ‘placebo effect’ itself is a powerful healer, and if you are “Look at it as an investment into a bettold by a medical authority you are getting ter quality of life,” Dr Rawal points out. better, you will. In cases like acupuncture, “No different from spending hundreds of for instance, we cannot experiment on pounds in the latest technology gadget unaware patients to prove how effective or a fancy restaurant. It’s another way to it is, because we cannot make anyone fail nourish your soul for the long period.” to notice they are being turned into a pin cushion, claiming it is for their own good.”

Dr Rawal discovered its advantages and benefits during his fifteen-year stint in Hence the understandable scepticism in the military. “My patients were young, fit the scientific community and alas, the and active subjects who expected a full scanty financial support to research in recovery in a few days, to be able to get complementary medicine. Nevertheless, back to work in a demanding environment. it is growing in popularity and little by I noticed that painkillers and physio often little it is gaining the interest and respect weren’t enough to get them back to their of western medicine, which in the past full potential, and on the other hand there 20-30 years has evolved tremendously was a lot of pressure on GPs to miniand explored other philosophies. Currently mise the troops’ sick leave. So, I started however, the main obstacle to its accessibelieving that western medicine is not the

panacea, and if Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine have been successfully around for centuries, even millennia, there must be a valid reason for it, although they may lack the scientific evidence based on western criteria. I enrolled in the London School of Homeopathic Medicine and trained in acupuncture to relieve musculoskeletal issues, which proved handy with soldiers dealing with back pain and knee injuries.”

He came to Gibraltar in 2001 with the Royal Navy and was posted back to the UK in 2008. Upon leaving the military in 2012, his family decided to make Gibraltar their permanent home and he became an A&E doctor at Saint Bernard’s Hospital and later a GP at the Primary Care Centre. “I have travelled all over the world with the military and Gibraltar has to be one of the most welcoming places I have ever been.”

“Look at it as an investment into a better quality of life.”

Dr Krishna Rawal

“Doctors make you well, therapists keep you well.”

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recipes

CIABATTA SANDWICH with Portobello Mushrooms and Tofu Scramble

INGREDIENTS 2 half ciabatta loaves 4 portobello mushrooms 350g firm tofu 2 tbsp nutritional yeast ½ tsp turmeric ½ tsp dried thyme 1 jar of vegan red pesto (or equivalent) 2 roasted peppers (in a jar) Small bunch of alfalfa sprouts ¼ red onion (finely chopped)

METHOD Put the grill on.

Place portobello mushrooms in a dish and brush with olive oil. Place under the grill and cook for 8 mins on each side.

In a saucepan scramble the drained tofu with a fork. Add turmeric, thyme and nutritional yeast. Blend well and cook until warm. Season to taste.

When the mushrooms are almost cooked, cut ciabatta loaves in half horizontally and toast.

Spread pesto inside each toasted ciabatta halves.

For each sandwich, sprinkle ciabatta bottom with alfalfa sprouts and red onions.

Stack 2 mushrooms on top, followed by half the tofu scramble and 1 roasted pepper.

Sprinkle with alfalfa sprouts and cover with ciabatta top.

Serve with Kalamata olives (optional)

Salt & pepper Olive oil

Time: 15-20 mins

Kalamata olives to serve (optional)

Serves 2

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PERFECT PANCAKES INGREDIENTS

Cinnamon and Raisin

½ cup raisins 2 tbsp flax seeds 90 ml water ½ cup buckwheat flour ½ cup brown rice flour 2 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground allspice ¼ tsp ground nutmeg ¼ tsp salt 2 tsp baking powder 1 cup almond milk Coconut oil for frying

METHOD Finely grind the flax seeds in a spice grinder or high-speed food processor, whisk together with the water in a small bowl and set aside. The mixture should become gloopy and gelatinous.

Mix the remaining dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Before you mix in the wet ingredients, begin heating a frying pan on a medium-high heat and put the frozen berries in a small saucepan on a low heat. Stir occasionally and add in the maple syrup whilst you continue making the pancakes.

Frozen summer berry compôte: 1 cup frozen berries (i.e. red currants and raspberries)

Time: 20-30 mins

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Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the flax mixture and half the almond milk. Using a fork, mix together the flax and milk and slowly begin to incorporate the flour. Add the remaining milk a bit at a time until everything is combined.

Put ½ tsp or so of coconut oil in the hot frying pan and pour in just under half a cup of the pancake batter. Fry for about 2 minutes until the bottom has browned nicely then flip and further for a further minute or two.

Keep the pancakes warm under the grill until you have fried them all. Serve warm with the berry compôte.

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THE SECRET OF THE WOLSELEY Wine and the anatomy of a successful restaurant

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of bottles in polished wooden shelves and exit the London Underground at A few steps further, I peer into the infamore wine in carefully placed wooden Piccadilly Circus. As usual, the place mous Itsu sushi restaurant where in 2006, is teeming with tourists taking selfies former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko boxes on the floor. The choice of wine is or wondering about looking lost. It’s allegedly suffered the first known poistaggering and whoever does their wine buying clearly knows what they are doing. lunchtime and there is a fair share of office soning by radioactive polonium 210 and I check some prices and I find myself workers intent on getting to their destilater died. Litvinenko had sought political pleasantly surprised how reasonable they nations probably a nearby Prêt asylum in the UK. Everyone inside à Manger or perhaps one of seems oblivious to the dramatic appear compared to other high end stores Everything the many Japanese bars selling event which took place here and like Harvey Nicks. There is a small wine bar serving wine by the glass next to the wine sushi before quickly returning to now seems to which brought the UK government be sold in tins. head to head with the Russians. racks where I take a seat at the bar and ortheir desks. I take my bearings der a glass of what’s advertised as “fine and I am relieved to find myself wine of the day”. Fine wine of the day at the right pavement to make my way Further on, I come to Austria remains down Piccadilly without having to cross turns out to be Schloss Gobolsberg 2010 Fortnum and Mason one of the Riesling, an Austrian white wine which an unimaginably busy road. As I start to and since I am early for knowledgeable turns out to be superb. The Austrian walk, I come across a line of youngsters my appointment, I go wine enthusiast’s wine industry was nearly brought to its with their names ignominiously attached in and head down to secrets. knees in 1985 by the great antifreeze round their necks waiting in a line to be their wine department. called into an entrance by a serious looking Fortnum and Mason scandal. Today, they can make incredibly woman in her mid-thirties carrying a clip good wines and Austria remains one of the has been transformed recently. Everything knowledgeable wine enthusiast’s secrets. I board. It’s clear they are here for some now seems to be sold in tins. Tins everypay £11 for my glass of wine excluding tip. sort of audition. I get an urge to stop and where as far as the eye can see. It makes ask what they are auditioning for but my for a rather homogenous and depressing reserve doesn’t allow me. Perhaps the X landscape. The wine department, howevLeaving Fortnum and Mason, I am soon at Factor. They all appear to be nervous. er, is better than I remember it. Thousands the Wolseley’s offices where, after some 86

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wine weeks of exchanging emails, final They are not after approval was given by their PR people Michelin stars for and two of their team will meet me to their food... discuss restaurant wine lists though I am hoping that the interview will reveal the secret of what is undoubtedly one of the most successful restaurants of all time.

I am instructed by an anonymous voice to come up to the second floor. As I go up the narrow stairs I come across photo portraits of two gentlemen every few metres. It turns out that they are Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, founders and owners. It is clear that there is a few years between each portrait and by the time I arrive at their office, the two gentlemen are well into middle age.

The Wolseley, an eponymous converted car showroom and ex-Barclay’s outlet serves a staggering 1000 covers daily though in spite of its large turnover, customers still need to book weeks in advance for prime breakfast or dining slots.

Having been to the Wolseley on several occasions, I knew that they are not after Michelin stars for their food - enthusiastically described by my son as very well cooked school dinners when he first suggested we meet there. Here, you will find sticky toffee pudding, prawn cocktail, eggs benedict, fish and chips, and perhaps the best steak I have ever tasted. Of course, you can still opt for the halibut, perfectly cooked turbot or lobster, hardly Billy Bunter’s fare.

ask for the secret of their success. The ensuing discussion, completely devoid of phrases like profit margins, wine mark ups or prices, totally focuses on customer experience. It appears that surroundings and ambience are critical to a restaurant and the Wolseley interior has been meticulously thought through. The original car showroom boasted marble columns and floors and wonderful high intricate ceilings.

It was the perfect setting with the addition of black wood, mirrors, chandeliers and shiny brass rails for what’s described as a grand European style continental type cafe.

The food was to be perfectly executed and rather traditional, comforting, almost staid.

Treacle tart, chicken soup with salt beef sandwich, coq au vin, Austrian pork belly, Portuguese custard tart with the addition of luxury products like lobster, oysters and turbot.

I am met by Adam Kirkaldy, not a Scotsman as I had first supposed but South African, and Tom Pridham the It appears that group’s young, self-confident, surroundings wine buyer. Adam, an ex-school The least expensive item on teacher, is the head of the group’s and ambience the menu is £6 whilst the most are critical to training having arrived just five expensive comes in at £38. years before as a waiter with a restaurant... The wine list has been carefully the express purpose of learning chosen with only old world wines the restaurant business at the including Claret, Burgundy, Rioja, Barolo, coalface before opening his own establishPort and Champagne. The least expensive ment. Unfortunately, his focus and dedicawine on their list comes in at £22.50 with tion soon had him whisked into managethe most expensive being our old friend ment and he had become heavily involved Vega Sicilia Unico 2004 at £275 - unusual in the groups recent expansion which for a restaurant, the mark up on this wine includes five new restaurants and the five is not even 60%. Expect 300% mark up at star Mayfair hotel, the Beaumont designed most restaurants! to recall the golden age of transatlantic travel. Tom was whisked away from The service is courteous, friendly and very Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons when efficient and should you be sitting elevated Jeremy King was snowed in at Raymond at one of the semi mezzanine tables, no Blanc’s establishment during a particularly problem. You are given a button to push bad storm and was impressed by Toms which will vibrate a buzzer in your waitenthusiasm and wine knowledge. ers pocket! The restaurant itself has an incredible buzz and theatre about it and all When we sit in the main meeting room, the tables are set with specially designed filled with a ridiculous amount of awards Wolseley tableware and glasses which cusand trophies, I go straight to the point and tomers can buy. The restaurant opens at GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016

7am for breakfast and goes right through to midnight nonstop serving high teas in the afternoon and seamlessly moving into dinner mode at the unnerving early hour of 5:30pm.

As interview ends, I am given a copy of AA Gill’s Breakfast at the Wolseley. Just as I am about to leave their office, I turn around and ask If there was one thing above all else that they considered crucial to success and what would that be? They both answer simultaneously: Give the customer the option to spend a lot of money but never make it mandatory. I agree with them. The Wolseley must be one of the few iconic London restaurants where a bulging wallet is not a necessity.

Wines to try at least once in your life Matues Rose There must be very few people who have not tried this iconic Portuguese wine. It’s considered to be one of the great marketing successes of the wine world and is attributed with helping to demystify the world of wine to mass consumers.

The wine itself, produced in bulk, was conceived back in 1942. It’s an easy drinking, non complex, slightly sparkling rose wine.

Its fruity, clean flavour and low alcohol content makes this a great picnic wine. The artist who painted the original label was allegedly given the choice of being paid a lump sum or per label produced. He chose the lump sum.

Inexpensive, widely available.

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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

Casa Pepe

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.

Casa Pepe, 18 Queensway Quay Marina, Tel/Fax: 200 46967 Email: casa.pepe@gmail.com.

Visit: www.gibtour.com/casapepe.

The Lounge Stylish Lounge Gastro Bar on Queensway Quay Marina serving best quality food prepared by passionate, qualified chefs. Popular quiz on Sundays from 7pm and a relaxed friendly atmosphere. A separate Lounge Bar Area serving a wide range of hot drinks, wines, beers, spirits and cocktails at reasonable prices, with large TV’s for sports and events coverage.

Open: 10am-late Mon - Sun Be sure to arrive early to ensure a seat!

The Lounge 17 Ragged Staff Wharf, Queensway Quay Marina Tel: 200 61118 info@thelounge.gi

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 Nunos Italian Restaurant and Terrace Caleta Hotel, Catalan Bay Tel: 200 76501 Email: reservations@caletahotel.gi

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.

red onions; and Romana 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

Sacarello Coffee Co

Located in a converted coffee warehouse, and famous for its great fresh ground coffee, homemade cakes/ afternoon tea, plus full 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. Holds popular art exhibitions with the Sacarello collection and guest artists. Very busy at office lunchtimes (1-2pm). Sacarello's is available for parties and functions in the evenings.

Open: 9am-7.30pm Mondays - Fridays. 9am-3pm Saturdays 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 Bar & Grill, Eurotowers Tel: 200 62828

Jury’s Café-Wine Bar 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

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Open: 7am-midnight Mon-Sat, 9am-midnight Sun. Jury’s Café & Wine Bar 275 Main Street. Tel: 200 67898

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restaurants, bars & pubs 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

O’Reilly’s Tr a d i t i o n a l Irish bar with full HD sports coverage and Irish breakfast from 7am (Sunday f ro m 9 a m) .

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

Bridge Bar & Grill Located on the water’s edge, Ocean Village, just across the b r i d g e f ro m 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

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 Visit: www.gibraltararms.com

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.

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Star Bar Gi b ra l t a r ’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.

Star Bar Parliament Lane. Tel: 200 75924 Visit: www.starbargibraltar.com

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

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

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

Get Stuffed Very popular take-away, 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

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 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

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 salads 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

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Gibraltar Taxi Association GUIDED ROCK TOURS

19 Waterport Wharf Main Office Tel: 20070052 Fax: 20076986 Radio service: 20070027

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GACHE & CO LTD EST. 1830

• Giftware • Jewellery • Sports Trophies • Awards & Engravers 266 Main St, Gibraltar Tel: 200 75757

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Professional Spanish Teacher All levels, singles, groups or Skype Call Margaret Tel: 0034956173384 Mobile: 0034609717296 Email: margaretjf13@gmail.com

HORTICULTURAL CONTRACTORS Tel: 200 43134 Fax: 200 50648 Convent Gardens, Convent Garden Ramp

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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: Children - Mon-Thur, 3:45 p.m. - 7 p.m., Sat, 10am - 12pm. Adults: 20073865 Knit and Natter Group: Tues 11am-3pm, Thurs 5.30-7.30pm, at Arts & Crafts Shop, Casemates balcony. Free to join and refreshments provided. Tel: 20073865.

The Arts Centre: Prince Edward’s Road, Art classes for children and adults. For more info call 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 claus.olesen@sghambros.com.

Membership Ian Le Breton 200 76173 ilebreton@SovereignGroup.com Board Games Calpe Chess Club & Junior Club: meets in Studio 1, John Mackintosh Hall Thursday, Juniors: 5p.m. - 7 p.m. / Tuesday & Thursday 7p.m. - 10:30 The Gibraltar Scrabble Club: Meets on Tuesdays at 3pm. Tel: Vin 20073660 or Roy 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 Centre: Hiphop/Break Dance,Contemporary Dance, Pilates, Capoeira, Acrobatics, Street Kids & Tods, Modern Dance. Performance and Film opportunities. Judo & Jujitsu Classes: Tue/ Thur with Sensei Conroy. All ages. Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. www. artinmovement.net FB: Art In Movement A.I.M, tel 54025041 or 54007457 Ballet, Modern Theatre, Contemporary & Hip Hop: Classes held weekly at Danza Academy. Training from 3 years to Adult Advanced. 68/2 Prince Edward’s Rd Tel: 54027111.

Bellydance Classes, all levels, Tue 8-9pm at the Ocean Village Gym (non–members welcome). Contact 54005593.

DSA Old & Modern Sequence Dancing: Sessions at Central Hall Fri 8.30pm, beginners 8pm. Tel: 200 78901 or tony@gibraltar.gi Everybody welcome.

Modern & Latin American Sequence Dancing: Mon at Catholic Community Centre 8pm. Tel. Andrew 200 78901.

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 1st School. 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 Zumba Classes at Urban Dance: Jumpers Bastion, with certified instructor Tyron Walker. Tel: 20063959 or 54012212 or Twitter: @UrbanDanceGib History & Heritage The Gibraltar Heritage Trust: Main Guard, 13 John Mackintosh Sq. 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 12 noon.

Music Gibraltar National Choir and Gibraltar Junior National Choir: Rehearses at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Tel: 54831000.

The Calpe Band: Mon & Wed. For musicians of brass/woodwind instruments

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of all standards/ages/abilities 7-9pm. Tel: 54017070 or thecalpeband@gmail.com Jazz Nights: Thurs at 9pm at O’Callaghan Eliott Hotel. Tel: 200 70500.

Outdoor Activities The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Gibraltar: 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: Award House, North Mole Road, PO Box: 1260. mjpizza@ gibtelecom.net, www.thedukes.gi.

Social Clubs The Rotary Club of Gibraltar meets the Rock Hotel, 7pm Tuesday evenings. Guests welcome. For contact or info www.rotaryclubgibraltar.com Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes: (Gibraltar Province) meets RAOB Club, 72/9 Prince Edward’s Road ­- Provincial Grand Lodge, Thu/month, 7.30pm. William Tilley 2371, Thurs 8.30pm. Buena Vista 9975, monthtly, Social Lodge. www.akearn1.wix. com/raob-gibraltar, william.tilley.lodge@ hotmail.co.uk, Clive, tel: 58008074 Special Interest Clubs & Societies Creative Writers Group: meets up on Tuesday mornings at 10.30 in O’Reillys Irish Bar and it is free to attend. 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 or Facebook: facebook.com/gibphilosophy Gibraltar Photographic Society: Meets on Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Wellington Front.

Induction courses, talks, discussions, competitions etc. For details contact the secretary on, leslinares@gibtelecom.net Harley Davidson Owners’ Club: www.hdcgib.com Lions Club of Gibraltar: Meets 2nd and 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: 200 77390 or training@stjohn.gi The Royal British Legion: For info or membership contact the Branch Secretary 20074604 or write to PO Box 332.

UN Association of Gibraltar: PO Box 599, 22a Main Street. Tel: 200 52108.

Sports Supporters Clubs Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Club: Meets 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.

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: Meets 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 ex-pro boxer Ernest Victory. Tel: 56382000 or 20042788.

Cheerleading: Gibraltar Cheerleading Association, girls and boys of 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, info@ gibcricket.com, Twitter: @Gibraltar_Crick Cycling: Gibraltar Cycling Association various cycling tours.

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 the correct development of the sport. Tel: Darren 54027171 Secretary, Alex 54021672 Youth Rep, Justin 54022622 President. 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 secretary.gibraltar.europe@gaa.ie Hockey: Gibraltar Hockey Association (members FIH & EHF) high standard competitions/training for adults/juniors.

Tel: Eric 200 74156 or Peter 200 72730 for info.

Iaido: teaches the Japanese sword (Katana), classes every week. 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, Shotokai karate centre, 41H Town Range. Monday: 9:30 p.m. & Wednesday 9:45 p.m.

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 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, 41H Town Range. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com Gibraltar Pool Association: (Member of the EBA) home and away league played on Thurs through out the season, various tournaments played on a yearly basis both nationally and internationally, Tel: 56925000 gibpool@gibtelecom.net, www.gib8ball.com Rhythmic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Rhythmic Gymnastics Association runs sessions from 4 years of age, weekday evenings. Tel: 56000772 or Sally 200 74661.

Rugby: Gibraltar Rugby Football Union

training for Colts (w+), seniors and veterans.

Play in Andalusia 1st Division. Contact: secretary@gibraltarfu.com Sailing: Gibraltar Yachting Association junior/senior competitive programme (April - Oct) Tel: Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club at 200 78897.

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 and junior tournaments and 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.

Time - Thursday 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m..

Telephone, Jenssen Ellul - 54027122 Swimming: Gibraltar Amateur Swimming Association (member FINA & LEN) opens its pool for leisure swimming. Junior lessons, squad for committed swimmers, water polo. Pool open Mon&Thurs: 7-10am, 12.30-4pm. Tue, Wed, Fri: 7-10am, 12:305pm. 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. Tel: 200 72869.

Table Tennis: Gibraltar Table Tennis Association training and 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 or www.gibraltartaekwondo.org Tai Chi: Tai Chi for children and adults.

Mon-Thur 6.30-8pm at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre and Sat 9am-1pm at the Yoga Centre, 33 Town Range. 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: 200 52442.

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: Meet at Ince’s Hall Theatre Complex, 310 Main Street. Tel: 20042237.

Trafalgar Theatre Group: Meets 2nd Wed of month, Garrison Library 8pm. All welcome.

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Information 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.

The flora and fauna on the Upper Rock are consid-

ered 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-ibn-Zeyad (“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 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

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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).

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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.

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 The John Mackintosh Hall 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.

Shrine of Our Lady of Europe (Museum within premises) Europa Road. 10am-7pm Monday to Friday, 11am7pm 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 12345 Hospital, St Bernards . . Tel: 200 79700 Weather information . . Tel: 5-3416 Frontier Queue Update.Tel: 200 42777

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 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Citizens’ Advice Bureau Open Mon-Thur 9:30am-4:00pm, Fri 9:30am- 3:30pm. (Summer Hours 8:30am – 2:00pm) Tel: 20040006 Email: info@cab.gi or visit us at 10 Governor’s Lane.

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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.

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 72 Prince Edwards Rd Tel: 200 78509 Mobile: 54007924 website: www.gdsg.co.uk Gibraltar Marriage Care. Free relationship counselling,

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.

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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.

Mummy & Me Breastfeeding Support: Meets every Thursday

Rock Tours by Taxi Tel: 200 70052 As well as 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.

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.

12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Narcotics Anonymous Tel: 200 70720 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: Yolanda 54015553

John Mackintosh Hall Tel: 200 75669 Includes cafeteria, theatre, exhibition rooms and library.

308 Main Street 9.30am - 11pm Monday to Friday. Closed weekends.

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New Year’s Day Thursday 1st January Commonwealth Day Monday 9th March Good Friday Friday 3rd April Easter Monday Monday 6th April Workers Memorial Day Monday 27th April May Day Friday 1st May Spring Bank Holiday Monday 25th May Queen’s Birthday Monday 15th June Late Summer BH Monday 31st August Evacuation Memorial Monday 7th September Gibraltar National Day Thursday 10th September Christmas Day Friday 25th December Boxing Day Monday 28th December

and ex-Service personnel and their families. Tel: (5)5481. Email: Susan GIB-CST-JSWPA@mod.uk With Dignity Gibraltar support for separated, divorced/ Community Centre, Line Wall Rd. Outings/activities.

Women in Need. Voluntary organisation for all victims of domestic violence. Refuge available. Tel: 200 42581 (24 hrs).

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24

25

Crossword Competition

Notes

24) Trickster (6)

Closing date: 18th Jan

First Prize Lunch for 2 at The Clipper

Last months winner:

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3) Deter; stop from happening (7) 5) Typical colour of a military 12 (5) 6) Variant of a chemical (7) 7) Shine visibly but not very brightly (5) 8) Causing problems (11) 14) Formal speech (7) 15) Result (7) 16) Appalling; not comedic (6) 17) Dialectic accent; type of shoe (6) 19) Bye or wide for example (5) 21) Popular Mediterranean fruit; forename of Popeye’s paramour (5)

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