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.
Keen chess player and staunch supporter of the Tradewise International Chess Festival Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Joseph Garcia, paid his second visit to the festival this week. On Saturday he witnessed the always-entertaining Battle of the Sexes and yesterday he saw the game in action in the Amateurs and Challengers Round 4 of week 2.
The Royal Gibraltar Regiment will fire a 21 Gun Salute at midday on Friday 6th February, to mark the Queen’s Accession to the throne.
The Regiment will execute the Gun Salute at Grand Battery House on Lime Wall Road. The Inspecting Officer for the salute will be Commander British Forces, Commodore Ian McGhie.
The Government’s retaliation to the contract award for new buses to Bassadone Motors has caught them out, claims the Opposition. The party believes that the Administration ‘is embarrassed about the lack of commercial reasons to justify the allocation of the new buses contract to Bassadone Motors’.