Mar 26 - Sacramento Says That Care Agency Staff Turnover “Higher Under GSD”
The Government has said that the GSD are once again attempting to distort facts and mislead by taking statistics provided to parliament last week out of context.
Mar 25 - UK Point of Consumption Tax to Alter Gaming Regulations
As part of a New Statesman supplement on Gibraltar, Gibraltar Gaming Commissioner Phil Brear has outlined how the UK Government’s proposed ‘Point of Consumption Tax’ will ‘alter licensing arrangements, regulatory arrangement and tax arrangements’.
Speaking to the Publication, Mr. Brear believes that the UK is attempting to form a gaming hub in the country, which could cause fallout for Gibraltar, which currently acts as one of few centres for the industry.
Mar 25 - Pedestrians Pass Quickly as Monday Frontier Queues Target Bicycles and Motor Vehicles
Frontier queues yesterday evening focused on both motor vehicles and bicycles, with a free flow of pedestrian traffic through the Gibraltar – Spain border. Cyclists were forced to queue for a maximum of an hour and 15 minutes during the height of Monday evening’s frontier queues into Spain.
Mat 25 - ERG Outlines Pride 2014 Event
Equality Rights Group Chairman Felix Alvarez has detailed an event set for July to celebrate Pride 2014, honouring the community’s diverse cultures, ethnic groups, LGB members, and any other sectors ‘who may wish to come forward to celebrate in peace and understanding’.
Mr. Alvarez insists that the annual worldwide event recognizes diversity and equality and ‘will be focused not on measures which may contribute to greater isolation but, rather, to greater togetherness here in our country’.
