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”).
Unite the Union says it is concerned about Ministry of Defence plans to remove the allowance paid to locally employed nuclear monitors (Local Emergency Monitoring Team). The union says it has had to raise, once more, what it sees as a “clear breach of consultation policies and current local legislation” by the MoD.
The GHA says it is currently experiencing very high rates of attendance both at the Primary Care Centre and in the Accident & Emergency Department at St Bernard’s Hospital due to a surge in Flu and other winter related illnesses. This year, reported cases of Influenza and flu-like illnesses have been extremely high in December and January to date.
The Gibraltar National Archives has considerably enhanced its Inhabitants of Gibraltar project. The whole collection of Gibraltar Census Original Registers 1777-1914 is now publicly available and fully searchable online.