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”).
The GSD says that the Government has admitted that the £300 million is additional borrowing structured through Government owned companies. The party says that this now takes Gibraltar’s debt, inclusive of the borrowings by Government owned companies, to “in excess of an eye watering £1.1 billion.”
A 29-year-old British national, who surreptitiously filmed two 12-year-old girls on his mobile phone in Catalan Bay, was today sentenced to six months in prison at the Supreme Court.
A 24-year-old woman who was found guilty of wounding her former lover was given a 10-month sentence suspended for 18 months at the Supreme Court today.