Whilst last week’s media focus for the military in Gibraltar has been on the Royal Marines’ 350th birthday celebrations, for one Gibraltarian, 2014 sees a birthday celebration on a slightly smaller scale.
In a Commons session last Friday Labour political Keith Vaz suggested that Gibraltar was used as an offshore site through which drug money was laundered. In a scornful response to this claim, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s letter to the MP, who attended the Gibraltar Government’s reception at the Labour Party Conference in September, noted that he is ‘outraged at the untrue way in which [he] specifically linked Gibraltar with the introduction of the proceeds of drug trafficking into the financial system’.
A complaint lodged by the Spanish Ministry for Food and Environment over the Gibraltar Government’s recently released Tuna Preservation Regulations has sparked a response from No.6 in which they have claimed that the Spanish Government is trying to discredit Gibraltar.
The UK’s largest airline, easyJet will launch year round flights from Bristol to Gibraltar starting in Summer 2015. The airline, which already flies from London Gatwick to Gibraltar, will launch flights from Bristol on 19 April 2015.
