The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
Local authors Sam Benady and Mary Chiappe will be launching their fifth Bresciano mystery, The Devil’s Tongue, during this weekend’s Literary Festival. Sam and Mary will be talking to broadcaster David Freeman at 5:00pm on Saturday 26 October in the Upper Reading Room of the Garrison Library.
The GSD says it “laments the lack of transparency in relation to the estimated cost of the Commonwealth Park.” The Opposition argues that, “It is clear that the Government simply doesn't want to say how much the Park is expected to cost for fear of a public backlash.”
The Government has insisted that the Opposition is ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’ with their criticism of the Government. The GSD yesterday claimed that the Government have refused to publish or share the contents of reports that are commissioned.
A No.6 statement has insisted that they already published the Fishing Report and the King Report on the future of GBC. The opposition, the statement continues, refused to publish the King Report when in Government.
Gibraltarian writer M. G. Sanchez is currently in Gibraltar to launch his latest novel. Entitled The Escape Artist, the book is set in the decade between 1970 and 1980 and features a plot that shifts backwards and forwards between Cambridge in the UK, Venice and Gibraltar.