The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, today met with the Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Lord David Cameron, at the Foreign Office in London in order to discuss the outstanding issues and matters in the ongoing negotiation with the European Union in relation to Gibraltar.
Sixteen college students and two teachers from the Falkenberg region in Halland, Sweden recently visited Gibraltar with the main aim being to study the social and working life of people in Gibraltar and in particular to enable the students to make contact with Gibraltarians who are actively involved in employment fields similar to their own or in which they have a particular interest.
Following a call from the Gibraltar Bar Council to re develop the training scheme for barristers and solicitors wishing to practice law in Gibraltar, the Government has teamed up with the Bar Council and the Chief Justice to reveal new requirements that will see a balance in training between barristers and solicitors who currently undergo different training systems despite then carrying out the same type of work. Currently barristers are admitted and enrolled upon completion of the Bar Professional Training Course, whilst solicitors must undertake a further two-year training period after completing their Legal Practice Course.
Following a report of a burglary at Notre Dame School in the early hours of the 11th of March 2015, shortly after 0630hrs that same day, officers of an Area Response team arrested two local juvenile males aged 14 years old and 16 years old respectively.