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”).
The Royal Gibraltar Regiment will fire a 21 Gun Salute at midday on Friday 6th February, to mark the Queen’s Accession to the throne.
The Regiment will execute the Gun Salute at Grand Battery House on Lime Wall Road. The Inspecting Officer for the salute will be Commander British Forces, Commodore Ian McGhie.
The Government’s retaliation to the contract award for new buses to Bassadone Motors has caught them out, claims the Opposition. The party believes that the Administration ‘is embarrassed about the lack of commercial reasons to justify the allocation of the new buses contract to Bassadone Motors’.