Mar 25 - Gibraltarian Becomes A UK Representative On UN Economic Commission For Europe
Gibraltar’s Commissioner for Sustainable Development, Professor Daniella Tilbury, has become the UK Representative on a Steering Committee of the United Nations Economic Council for Europe. A letter, sent by the UK’s Department for Education to UNECE’s Chief of the Environment and Sustainable Development Section, confirmed that Prof Tilbury would be the UK national focal on matters relating to education and sustainable development.
The GSD will be holding its AGM on Thursday 11 April at the John Mackintosh Hall.
The Miss Gibraltar contestants have chosen to support the local charity GibSams during this year’s Miss Gibraltar campaign.
Professor John Cortes, Minister with responsibility for heritage, environment and climate change, will be launching Professor Clive Finlayson’s latest book The Smart Neanderthal on Tuesday at 18:30 at the Gibraltar National Museum. The book is published by Oxford University Press.
On the advice of the Judicial Service Commission and after consultation with the Minister for Justice, Sir Patrick Elias was today formally appointed by the Governor as Judge of the Court of Appeal, in accordance with section 57(2)(a) of the Constitution.
The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA has entered into a contractual agreement with Clínica Universidad de Navarra, a Spanish private healthcare provider with tertiary centres in Madrid and Pamplona.
‘Gibraltar needs to be consistent: it cannot demand self-determination for itself internationally, while refusing that same self-determination domestically to its women citizens,’ was one of the messages Felix Alvarez, representing the ERG-Unite Pro-Choice campaign, delivered in London on Saturday at a forum of key speakers discussing the way forward on reproductive rights.
Comedian Jason Manford has added Gibraltar to his live tour ‘Muddle Class’. His first comedy tour since his hugely successful 2013/14 tour ‘First World problems’ which ran for 18 months to rave reviews. The comedian, writer, actor and presenter has more than 250 tour dates across the UK and, by the time the show comes to the Rock, it will have enjoyed an audience of close to half a million people.
