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 public consultation period of the recently launched draft Sustainable Traffic, Transport and Parking Plan has been extended. The public is invited to make contributions and suggestions to the plan until 31st March 2015.
The public can pass on their views via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by writing to Traffic Plan Team, HM Government of Gibraltar, Transport, Traffic and Technical Services, Joshua Hassan House, Secretary’s Lane, Gibraltar.
Thirteen members from the Laguna Youth Club took part in a residential at the Retreat Centre last weekend. The programme planned by the members included a variety of educational and fun activities, a tour of the World War II tunnels, a Karaoke evening as well as designing and creating a logo and mission statement for Laguna Youth Club.
The GSD has criticised the Government today for ‘permitting hauls of fish to be netted illegally’ in BGTW, despite their 2011 manifesto commitment to ‘ensure the ban on the use of drift nets and other nets’.
The party touches upon recent reports of Spanish fishing trawlers hauling in nets of fish in the area of the artificial reef.