A new year... and the Phoenix rises
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11 January, 2011 06:14
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A new year has begun – and, as it starts, Vox reopens and again will report and analyse important and significant events on the Rock in the months ahead.
These are likely to be momentous months as Gibraltar faces new challenges and significant changes – among them a general election and the probability of a new government to follow... both of which will bring a day of reckoning to the GSD and its years of poor rule.
Mounting financial pressures of recent years – caused largely by the personal pettiness of the Chief Minister – eventually forced the closure of the print version of Vox, Gibraltar’s last independent media voice, The newspaper’s widely-read internet version suffered a similar fate. And, in the absence of any Government advertising – which is vital to the survival of any newspaper on the Rock – and the failure of support from private sector advertisers fearful of ‘offending’ the temporary tenant of No.6, many feared that the voice had been silenced forever.
But as the old saying has it: ‘You can’t keep a good thing down’…at least, not forever. Vox has arisen – reborn and set to report news (and offer views) through our web-site.
As yet, no date has been set for the general election; however, such is the Chief Minister’s political contempt for the electorate that voters should not be surprised if it is set to coincide with – or come close on the heels of – the opening of the glass elephant… the vainglorious excess of the new airport, for which the taxpayer is to pay and which was quite unnecessary save to pamper the egos of Caruana and his Deputy.
Doubtless the event – scheduled for May – will prompt expensive celebrations. But it will also serve as a reminder to the electorate of the financial over-spending of the Caruana regime…from the airport itself, to the £10 million ‘improvements’ to the Dudley Ward Tunnel, the Theatre Royal fiasco (for which the voter continues to pay), and even to the £700-a-time airport luxury lounges that the Chief Minister has awarded himself to ease his already-costly travels.
These are all matters which Gibraltar’s electorate should remember when the general election is eventually called.
Mounting financial pressures of recent years – caused largely by the personal pettiness of the Chief Minister – eventually forced the closure of the print version of Vox, Gibraltar’s last independent media voice, The newspaper’s widely-read internet version suffered a similar fate. And, in the absence of any Government advertising – which is vital to the survival of any newspaper on the Rock – and the failure of support from private sector advertisers fearful of ‘offending’ the temporary tenant of No.6, many feared that the voice had been silenced forever.
But as the old saying has it: ‘You can’t keep a good thing down’…at least, not forever. Vox has arisen – reborn and set to report news (and offer views) through our web-site.
As yet, no date has been set for the general election; however, such is the Chief Minister’s political contempt for the electorate that voters should not be surprised if it is set to coincide with – or come close on the heels of – the opening of the glass elephant… the vainglorious excess of the new airport, for which the taxpayer is to pay and which was quite unnecessary save to pamper the egos of Caruana and his Deputy.
Doubtless the event – scheduled for May – will prompt expensive celebrations. But it will also serve as a reminder to the electorate of the financial over-spending of the Caruana regime…from the airport itself, to the £10 million ‘improvements’ to the Dudley Ward Tunnel, the Theatre Royal fiasco (for which the voter continues to pay), and even to the £700-a-time airport luxury lounges that the Chief Minister has awarded himself to ease his already-costly travels.
These are all matters which Gibraltar’s electorate should remember when the general election is eventually called.
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