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...breach of international law and warning that it threatened to upset plans for the upcoming Tripartite meeting (dialogues previously took place in Granada and London). "This is an additional banana skin thrown by Spain at the feet of the [negotiations] process," declared Gibraltar Chief Minister Peter Caruana. (Read "We Pledge Allegiance," a 2002 story on Gibraltar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Owns Gibraltar? Spain Takes a Step Onto the Rock | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...Caruana hardly furthered the meeting's cause himself, however, when one week before its scheduled start, he issued a public statement reminding local boat owners that despite the European Commission's environmental ruling, Spain has no police jurisdiction in Gibraltar's waters and so "all requests by Spanish authorities within British Gibraltar Territorial Waters to board vessels ... should be refused." The call to what some Spaniards saw as open rebellion threw the talks into disarray; the Spanish press reported on Thursday, July 16, that diplomatic sources saw little likelihood of the meeting's going ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Owns Gibraltar? Spain Takes a Step Onto the Rock | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...seem to want the same thing and be willing to go into debt to get it. Spain's rate of home ownership is 85%, far and away the highest in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (o.e.c.d.). Because of the high level of mortgage debt, Jamie Caruana, governor of the Bank of Spain, warned last year that by the end of 2004, "The cushion of saving available ... had fallen to practically zero for Spanish households." Ricardo Vergés, an economist who earlier this year completed the first accounting report on housing for the National Institute of Statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Spain Sustain? | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...Purple Eagles (3-3-0) got on the board first when Randy Harris fed Matt Caruana seven feet in front of the net for a goal 36 seconds into the game...

Author: By Associated press | Title: College Hockey Roundup | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

Chief Minister Peter Caruana boycotted the last round of talks because he wanted to go as Gibraltar's representative, not as part of Britain's delegation. He says that if Britain and Spain want to make a deal on Gibraltar down the road, they'll find a way, no matter what the local constitution says. "They do not intend to put everything to referendum before formally agreeing it between themselves," he told TIME. For most Gibraltarians, though, sovereignty seems a non-issue, at least in daily life. They'll offer strong opinions when asked, usually by outsiders, but among themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Pledge Allegiance | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

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