Nov 22 - Exercise Jebel Sahara Continues
Walking into the Cookhouse in the Forward Operating Base in Jebel Sahara really is a massive morale boost. Despite the soaring temperatures outside it always feels cool and clean inside and there is a constant supply of hot and cold drinks.
It’s 7am and the chefs are serving breakfast which has a choice of a Full English breakfast, toast, breakfast cereals and eggs a multitude of ways. The food is hot and plentiful, but in order for this to be available, some chefs have been on shift since 4am to prepare the food.
Coinciding with the signing of the Gibraltar-UK Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) to improve international tax compliance on 21 November 2013, the OECD announced that the United Kingdom had deposited declarations extending the territorial scope of the OECD and Council of Europe Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters to cover Gibraltar.
The GSD has this afternoon claimed that they receive continuing reports from members of the public about Barbary Macaques roaming into urban areas. An Opposition statement on the matter read, ‘Worryingly, some of these reports are about macaques in children’s playgrounds. In a particular incident in the Moorish Castle Estate playground, a pack of macaques were fighting aggressively between themselves in their search for food within the refuse containers nearby. 
During yesterday morning’s Parliament session, Speaker Adolfo Canepa responded to a complaint made by Opposition Daniel Feetham that Government ministers had misled Parliament when answering questions in relation to the Sunborn. Mr. Canepa explained that Mr. Feetham had asked for a Parliament ruling on whether the deliberate mis-leading of Parliament by a member is capable of amounting to a contempt of Parliament.
