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PC Anthony Debono of Royal Gibraltar Police’s (RGP) Crime Prevention & Reduction Unit gathered together Pubwatch members at Ocean Village HQ last week to give them a timely reminder of how to handle drink spiking and fake ID on licensed premises.

Gibraltar may be teetering on the brink of winter but one man who won’t be reaching for his fleece in Ocean Village this week is long-time Arctic explorer Gilles Elkaim who just sailed in on his expedition boat, Arktika.

As proof that Gibraltar’s Ocean Village is a superyacht magnet, this week a sextet of heavyweight vessels cruised in requiring berths. Thanks to 2010 Premier Berth expansion programme, there was space for all as well as a great photo opportunity.

This week low-cost airline easyJet strengthened its commitment to Gibraltar by adding four extra weekly flights to its London Gatwick service. Scheduled to begin next summer, the airline will now operate 11 flights a week to this London airport.

When 78-metre Samar was commissioned, she was the largest yacht to be built in the UK since HMY Britannia was launched. Gibraltar’s Ocean Village ensured that she received a warm British welcome when she stopped by for tax-free fuel this week.

Having set off from Gibraltar’s Ocean Village back on 26 October 2009, nearly two years and 35,000 nautical miles later participants in the 2009/2011 Blue Water Rally intrepid duo Pete Callis and John Hazell made a triumphant return to the marina.

The now infamous annual Ocean Village-sponsored Cardboard Boat Race took place on Saturday 3 September under bright blue skies. The soggy sailors battled the calm marina waters in front of a large animated crowd.

The annual Cardboard Boat Race has traditionally been one of Ocean Village’s biggest crowd-pulling events. This year’s contest, on Saturday 3 September, will once again see dozens of brave mariners negotiate a tough 1,000-metre course.

Denmark may be far from tropical, yet it has produced one of the finest steel bands on the circuit – the “Steel Hammers”. The 12-piece ensemble will be bringing a flavour of the Caribbean to Gibraltar’s Ocean Village on Monday 18 July at 9pm.

Chesterton’s MD, Mike Nicholls, and Lettings Manager Jacky Lyden, present a cheque for £1,000 to Liz Quinn and Kerry Peters, of Quest Insurance

Chesterton’s MD, Mike Nicholls presents a cheque for £700, and the ‘Chesterton Cup’ to Mrs Barbara Sellors, the Event Organiser, on behalf of Childline Gibraltar.

Chesterton announce appointment of John Mckillop Smith FRICS FBEng FBIFM as Managing Director of Chesterton Property Management and Chartered Building Surveyors in Gibraltar.

Local specialists MedWeddings are here to spare you from emotional meltdown when organising your happy day with a Wedding Workshop at the Eliott Hotel on Friday 27 April from 4.30pm.

PC Anthony Debono of Royal Gibraltar Police’s (RGP) Crime Prevention & Reduction Unit gathered together Pubwatch members at Ocean Village HQ last week to give them a timely reminder of how to handle drink spiking and fake ID on licensed premises.

Gibraltar may be teetering on the brink of winter but one man who won’t be reaching for his fleece in Ocean Village this week is long-time Arctic explorer Gilles Elkaim who just sailed in on his expedition boat, Arktika.

As proof that Gibraltar’s Ocean Village is a superyacht magnet, this week a sextet of heavyweight vessels cruised in requiring berths. Thanks to 2010 Premier Berth expansion programme, there was space for all as well as a great photo opportunity.

This week low-cost airline easyJet strengthened its commitment to Gibraltar by adding four extra weekly flights to its London Gatwick service. Scheduled to begin next summer, the airline will now operate 11 flights a week to this London airport.

Billed as “the most member-driven General Assembly event” in the Assn’s history, Gibraltar delegate Brian Stevendale joined 260 more representatives from 100 World Trade Centers at the General Assembly held in Sao Paolo Brazil from 9 to 12 Oct.

When 78-metre Samar was commissioned, she was the largest yacht to be built in the UK since HMY Britannia was launched. Gibraltar’s Ocean Village ensured that she received a warm British welcome when she stopped by for tax-free fuel this week.

Having set off from Gibraltar’s Ocean Village back on 26 October 2009, nearly two years and 35,000 nautical miles later participants in the 2009/2011 Blue Water Rally intrepid duo Pete Callis and John Hazell made a triumphant return to the marina.

The now infamous annual Ocean Village-sponsored Cardboard Boat Race took place on Saturday 3 September under bright blue skies. The soggy sailors battled the calm marina waters in front of a large animated crowd.

In case you needed any more incentive to spend your time at Gibraltar’s Ocean Village, the resort has now launched its Premier Card. Offering fantastic discounts, the Ocean Village Premier Card will transform the way you spend your leisure time.

The annual Cardboard Boat Race has traditionally been one of Ocean Village’s biggest crowd-pulling events. This year’s contest, on Saturday 3 September, will once again see dozens of brave mariners negotiate a tough 1,000-metre course.

Leisure Events Gibraltar is proud to launch and present the official Casemate's Summer Nights programme of events 2011. For the first time since the commencement of this important event in social calendar, 2011 Summer Nights are organised.

Denmark may be far from tropical, yet it has produced one of the finest steel bands on the circuit – the “Steel Hammers”. The 12-piece ensemble will be bringing a flavour of the Caribbean to Gibraltar’s Ocean Village on Monday 18 July at 9pm.

Chesterton’s MD, Mike Nicholls, and Lettings Manager Jacky Lyden, present a cheque for £1,000 to Liz Quinn and Kerry Peters, of Quest Insurance

The first half of 2011 has been a flurry for Gibraltar Homes as the company has recorded 30 homes sales during the first six months.

Another EU/MiFID broker launches - Investors Europe

At first glance, 59m Calixe looked like ‘just’ another superyacht in the conveyor belt of beauties that continue to grace the waters of Gibraltar’s Ocean Village. However she was known to be a bit different for she is in fact owned by a woman.

Owning third place in May’s Sunday Times Rich List, Roman Abramovich has amassed a £10.3 billion fortune – £3 billion up on 2010. Amongst his assets is 162.5m ‘Eclipse’ – recently anchored in waters off Gibraltar’s Ocean Village.

Pen the dates of the Gibraltar-Morocco Rally into the diary – Friday 24 to Monday 27 June. Dubbed 'the world's most sociable yacht rally', the event departs from Ocean Village gets non-racing sailors and motorboaters together on the water.

Kicking off last weekend, huge crowds gathered to take part in Ocean Village's Festival of the Seas offering a wide variety of activities from a Yacht Rally to a Dragon Boat Race and organisers even managed to book spectacular sunny weather.

Since launch in May 2010, Ocean Village’s new Premier Berths have an occupancy of an incredible 70 - 80%. For that Ocean Village can credit its keen pricing strategy with a maximum of £4 a metre charged per day for even the largest megayacht.

On 5 May Leisure Island Business Centre, Ocean Village, was once again hosting high profile guests. 400 delegates occupied the exhibition hall-style space for the Gibraltar Finance Centre Annual Conference with an impressive roll call of speakers.

Chesterton’s MD, Mike Nicholls presents a cheque for £700, and the ‘Chesterton Cup’ to Mrs Barbara Sellors, the Event Organiser, on behalf of Childline Gibraltar.

There is nowhere better to be than Gibraltar’s Ocean Village this May. Packed with land- and water-based fun for all, the Festival of the Seas runs from Saturday 14 May to Sunday 22 May and is quite simply unmissable.

The Gibraltar 2011 Property Market Review by Bray Properties

Chesterton announce appointment of John Mckillop Smith FRICS FBEng FBIFM as Managing Director of Chesterton Property Management and Chartered Building Surveyors in Gibraltar.

Lakshmi Mittal is the wealthiest Indian according to the Forbes list of World Billionaires for 2011. Worth 31.1 billion USD it’s little wonder that he has a megayacht to match and his 80m was spotted in Gibraltar’s Ocean Village marina last week.

Chesterton Gibraltar announce appointment of John Mckillop Smith FRICS FBEng FBIFM as Managing Director of Chesterton Property Management and Chartered Building Surveyors

At 8.30pm on Saturday 26 March, Ocean Village will be joining one billion people in 130 countries around the globe in the big Earth Hour switch-off - a bold reminder that we can take personal responsibility for the future of the planet we live on.

Chesterton Gibraltar announces the appointment of John McKillop Smith FRICS FBEng FBIFM as Managing Director of Chesterton Property Management and Chartered Building Surveyors.

As the curtain comes down on another MIPIM, the first public unveiling of World Trade Center Gibraltar was deemed a resounding success. Holding centre stage on the World Trade Centers Association stand, the Gibraltar project attracted vast interest.

MIPIM 2011 is about to descend on Cannes. Running from 8 to 11 March, the occasion gathers together key players in the global real estate industry and Gibraltar’s World Trade Center is preparing for its MIPIM debut.

In 2010 a handful of apartments in Gibraltar’s Ocean Village marina were released back to the market. Seven sold within the first week meanwhile, across a three week period in 2011, a further three properties have been snapped up. Why? Location.

The liquidators of Madoff Securities International are selling the fraudster’s superyacht in a bid to recoup a fraction of the victims’ lost money. Currently lying in Gibraltar waters, ‘Bull’ is expected to receive offers over 3mn euros.

As the £100 mn terminal nears completion, easyJet has announced its brand new route into Gibraltar Airport from Liverpool’s John Lennon. The three times a week service starting March will complement easyJet’s existing London Gatwick schedule.

Mike Nicholls, Managing Director of Chesterton Gibraltar, handed over a cheque of 1,000 GBP to Maruchi Risso JP, Chairperson of the Gibraltar Corona Society who organise the Christmas Party for Gibraltar´s deserving elderly individuals.

In a very rare opportunity, a handful of high floor two and three bedroom apartments in Ocean Village’s Grand and Majestic Ocean Plazas have been released back to the market for sale and are priced to sell from just £295,000.

November 20th, 2010; 9am–6pm, The Music Store celebrates its 39th birthday by having it’s largest Anniversary Sale to date. With prices that would normally have them committed to an insane asylum; the savings are being passed to their customers.

Having left London’s Tower Bridge one month previously, the Big 5 Kayak Challenge team paddled and peddled almost 2,000 miles to make it to the five star comfort of Gibraltar’s Ocean Village Marina at 7.42pm on Tuesday this week.

Gibraltar’s Ocean Village has won Best High Rise Development Europe and is now in the running for the World’s Best final in November. This gives the resort the chance to become the Best High Rise Development in the World–the ultimate accolade.

Guitar lessons are now available at Street Guitar School Gibraltar.

On Monday 25 October, Ocean Village will be welcoming members of the ‘Big 5 Kayak Challenge’ team en route from London's Tower Bridge to final destination Marrakech which also signals the end of the ‘Big 5’ for 2010.

Manuel Fauste, senior private banker at SGPB Hambros in Gibraltar, handed over a cheque for GBP 300.- to Jamie Pratts on behalf of The Multi Sclerosis Therapy Centre and GBP 300.- to Jean Penney on behalf of the Dyslexia Support Group.

A World Trade Centre (WTC) is being planned for Gibraltar to help bring global recognition for the jurisdiction and ensure sufficient top quality office space is available to meet growing demand.

As August turns up the heat it’s time for some cool refreshment in the shape of the O’Reilly’s Beer & Cider Festival 2010 running from Monday 9 August through to Sunday 15 August from 7pm ‘til 11pm.

Part of an endless succession of megayachts choosing Ocean Village marina as a regular port of call, 63 metre Polar Star recently took up temporary residence. Built in 2005, this vessel is available for charter for a modest 450,000 euros a week.

Whilst Gibraltar’s marinas are always busy, turning away 100 boats a day peak season, large boat-sized gaps are appearing in marinas along the Spanish Costas. The reason is financial. From berthing to fuel to taxation – Gibraltar has the edge.

Estimates suggest that over 99% of office space in Gibraltar is either sold or let. The good news is that 253m² of brand new ready-to-move-in commercial space is available within the Leisure Island Business Plaza in Ocean Village.

Building on the back of a positive inaugural Show in 2009, the 2010 Gibraltar International Boat Show 8 to 11 April was designed to offer even better value and deliver a more comprehensive programme to satisfy both exhibitors and the visiting public.

Nearly 100 Realtors experienced a mini off road tour on Monday; something Southwest Florida Roadies would have had to leave the area to experience.