The GSD says it notes the lengthy response by the Government to its criticism that it is spending money as if there is no tomorrow funded by huge direct and indirect public debt, which the party says is “just simply intended to confuse people.”
The Gibraltar Electrical Authority (GEA) conducted an initial investigation into this morning’s power cut. Evidence suggests that a lightning strike may have been the root cause of the power outage causing the generators to trip on earth fault.
Whilst last week’s media focus for the military in Gibraltar has been on the Royal Marines’ 350th birthday celebrations, for one Gibraltarian, 2014 sees a birthday celebration on a slightly smaller scale.
In a Commons session last Friday Labour political Keith Vaz suggested that Gibraltar was used as an offshore site through which drug money was laundered. In a scornful response to this claim, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s letter to the MP, who attended the Gibraltar Government’s reception at the Labour Party Conference in September, noted that he is ‘outraged at the untrue way in which [he] specifically linked Gibraltar with the introduction of the proceeds of drug trafficking into the financial system’.
