The Government has roundly condemned the latest comments about Gibraltar from Partido Popular spokesman Esteban González Pons. Number Six says that it is “extremely serious” that a senior Spanish politician should “seek to dehumanise Gibraltar and its people through the use of insulting and vicious language which should have no place in the modern Europe of today.”
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, has reacted to the evidence session in which Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Lord David Cameron gave evidence to the European Scrutiny Committee, saying he was impressed but not surprised by Lord Cameron’s grasp of the detail of the Gibraltar negotiation but disappointed by the failure by members of the Committee to understand the constitutional relationship between Gibraltar and the UK and the issues that Brexit has created for Gibraltar.
Having pleaded guilty to both charges, a local man has been fined £580 for Possession of a Controlled Class B Drug and £250 for Driving a Motor Vehicle whilst Unfit through Drugs.
The cast from the Young Shakespeare Company has been busy entertaining over 2200 students from Gibraltar’s upper primary and secondary schools with two daily performances of ‘Henry V’ last week. The performances included an interactive session at the start, followed by a modern-day take on the play, with the cast using several students in the audience to play certain characters.
