The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
RGP officers PC 74 Donovan Galia and PC 165 Keiron Reyes were today commended by the Commissioner of Police for bravery and determination under hazardous circumstances over their actions during a fire at Ocean Village in the early hours of the 23rd April 2014.
Carnival UK, Britain’s leading cruise operator of P&O Cruises and Cunard, has declared that Gibraltar is the third most visited port of call for them in 2015 after Southampton – their home base – and the Portuguese port of Lisbon.
Last week Mr Tim Gowing, son of the late Commissioner of Police Dudley S. Gowing, paid a courtesy call on the Royal Gibraltar Police. Mr Gowing was visiting Gibraltar together with members of The Friends of Gibraltar Group and took the opportunity to meet the senior command of the Royal Gibraltar Police at New Mole House.
The chairman of the Committee of 24, Xavier Lasso Mendoza, took the unusual step yesterday of approaching the Gibraltar delegation after it had delivered its addresses to introduce himself and conduct a short and informal discussion with the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo.