The GSD has criticised the Chief Minister’s ‘attempts to make political capital out of legal claims made against the Gibraltar Government’. Commenting on the second commencement of legal proceedings relating to housing developments undergone by the former administration, the party has said that ‘Mr Picardo is, unfortunately, incapable of putting Gibraltar before his own narrow political interests’.
A piece of Gibraltar Rock, donated to the Royal Marines last year, was unveiled as a new memorial on Woodbury Common in Devon, which is used by trainees of the nearby Commando Training Centre Royal Marines Exton.
From the hour of 07:00 on the 10th March, to 07:00 on the 11th March, the following occurred:
Arrests:
1 Person arrested for Tobacco Related Offence
2 Persons arrested for Criminal Damage
1 Person arrested for being in possession of a bladed article & Resisting Arrest
1 Person arrested for Driving whilst unfit through drink or drugs and possession of a controlled drug.
7 Warrants Executed
The Government has been served with further proceedings relating to a GSD housing development, following another set of claims last week.
The claim, seeking liquidated damages in the sum of twenty seven million six hundred and eighty eight thousand pounds (£27,688,000.00), and further unliquidated amounts, is in relation to the development of the Waterport Terraces housing estate by the former GSD administration. The claimant is the liquidator of a subsidiary of Bruesa SA, the first construction company that the GSD administration contracted to build that estate as well as the Mid-Harbours Estate.
