The Governement says it notes what it calls the “unsustainable excuses” deployed by Keith Azopardi and Charles Gomez while claiming that the Government has “uncovered their unsuccessful attempts to seek that Direct Rule be imposed on Gibraltar.”
Officers from the RGP Operations Division currently investigating recent instances of Violence and Anti-Social Behaviour in the area of Glacis Estate have carried out several arrests. These follow an incident of Violent Disorder at Glacis Estate last Friday, where seven individuals were arrested by RGP Response Team officers and where bladed weapons were seized.
The Government has announced that all applications received for the Gibraltar Enterprise Scheme have now been reviewed by the scheme’s referral panel. The panel is mainly comprised of representatives from the Chamber of Commerce and the Gibraltar Federation of Small Businesses.
The Government notes that the Leader of the Opposition met the Governor, Vice Admiral Sir David Steel, on Tuesday to discuss the Inquiries Act 2024. Number Six says that the meeting, no doubt agreed to by His Excellency “out of his innate sense of unimpeachable professional courtesy”, in effect, “sought the establishment” of a new stage in the process of legislation in which the Opposition “was seeking to overturn the will of the democratically elected Parliament.”
The Gibraltar Contingency Council (GCC) met yesterday afternoon at No 6 Convent Place to review security and civil contingency matters. The meeting was co-chaired by His Excellency the Governor Sir David Steel and the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo. Minister for Civil Contingencies Leslie Bruzon and Minister for Health and Care Gemma Arias-Vasquez also attended.
Gibraltar’s beaches will be operating limited Lifeguard and Beach attendance services as from Easter this year. Lifeguards will be deployed at all beaches during the Easter weekend and all weekends thereafter until the summer bathing season officially begins.