Flogging a dead horse

Dear Sir,

So the neutralization of the waters issue has proved to be just one more myth in the wonderful defence of Gibraltar, but let us at least be grateful to the forward looking brigade otherwise us Talibans would be causing more problems to the Foreign Office and the Palacio de Santa Cruz.

I am not for one minute going to query whether your on-line opinion poll is accurate except to state the obvious, if the Government was elected with a 49.33% majority and your pollsters cannot all be from the opposition, some are now changing their tune.

To end, a Mature Politician, here or elsewhere, is measured by deeds and not words or myth, therefore to continue to flog a dead horse without a MANDATE is not only scandalous but not worthy of a Member of a Modern Non-Colonial Democratic Parliament.

Yours faithfully,
W. L. Chamberland.

Blame the financial services commission for fees increase plan

Dear Sir

Your issue of today led with the front page headline "Will new fees rock the Finance Centre?" It began with the sentence: "The Government is planning to introduce increased fees for financial services providers."

The Government has no such plans. As most of your readers will know, the Financial Services Commission operates, by law, independently of the Government including deciding on its desired level of expenditure and revenue (ie fees).

The FSC has sought to raise the fees that it charges. The Minister for Finance's consent is required. Before giving or withholding his consent to the fee rises proposed by the FSC, and for which his consent has been requested by the FSC, the Minister has sought the industry's views in the consultation paper that you appear to have seen.

Yours faithfully
James Tipping
Finance Centre Director
Ministry of Finance

The art of truthfully defending our position - will we ever learn it?

Dear Sir,

Very interesting piece, page 2 your Tuesday’s edition in respect of message relayed to exercising Hawks, from Seville Air traffic to ‘get out of Spanish airspace.

I assume once again that Spain is relying on Utrecht which not only gave them the waters but also the sky above. What a marked difference when a Country defends its territory and we, or should I say Britain, who has waited until a day before the deadline expired to lodge a formal protest on the waters saga with the European Court of Justice, if only some bright spark discovered OIL just like the Falklands.

Will we ever learn the art of defending truthfully our position instead of procrastinating and insisting on enlarging the photo album.

Yours faithfully,
W. L. Chamberland.

Why things happen

Dear friends,

It is sometimes difficult to interpret the signs and the reasons why things happen such as the earthquake in HAITI and in my search for some answers I came across this which seems to explain things quite well.

We must remember that there are more than 50 % of the population involved in voodoo which is basically calling on evil spirits and as JESUS said the enemy only comes to steal, kill and destroy - he certainly did this about a month ago...The good news though is that on the monthly anniversary instead of having their yearly Mardi Gras celebrations they declared three days of fasting and prayer when even the President was moved to tears and could hardly speak...thousands were converted and more than a hundred voodoo priests converted to Christ - this is truly good news!

Blessings,
John Culatto
p.s. you can watch the three days of prayer and fasting in Haiti in youtube

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