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 GSD Opposition says it has received complaints from tenants at Resolution House in Laguna Estate about the lack of concern for the health and safety of residents during the refurbishment works within their housing estate.
Shortly after 6pm yesterday afternoon, Police and the Fire & Rescue Service attended to reports of a large fire within the old Gibraltar Casino building on Europa Road.
Here's the full text of Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Garcia's speech at the European Policy Centre yesterday. Throughout, he touched upon the Spanish position on frontier controls and other issues faced by Gibraltar:
'Good afternoon,
It is a pleasure to be here today for this briefing on the situation of Gibraltar in the European Union. I am very grateful to the European Policy Centre for the opportunity.
I am grateful firstly because the position of Gibraltar is generally not well known and secondly because it gives me the opportunity, on behalf of the Government and the people that I represent, to provide an accurate assessment of a position which has often been misrepresented.
69 year old local businessman Frederick Parody of Almond Lodge, Montagu Gardens faced the Magistrates’ Court this morning on charges on Sexual Assault upon a Child under the age of 13.