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”).
Following a decision in 2010 by Her Majesty’s Passport Office in UK, the Gibraltar passport service will move to centralisation of passport personalisation in mainland UK. According to HM Passport Office, this change is aimed at increasing security and creating new efficiencies and will ensure that applicants will receive a new generation British passport with improved security features. This change is about to be implemented.
The recent response from the GSD to the Chief Minister's statements regarding the OEM Liquidation litigation is “striking in being so entirely contrary to the actions that the GSD pursued in Government,” says a statement from Number Six.
The Neighbourhood Policing Unit of the RGP will this Thursday 5th March be holding a prescription drug dump and will be setting up a main collection point at Casemates Square for this purpose.
The protestations from the Government that the Opposition is creating uncertainty over the storage of LNG are symptomatic of a Government that “wants neither its decisions questioned nor a debate to occur on matters of significant public interest to this community” says the GSD.