Mar 28 - Government: New Developments Show Gibraltar Has Become A “Victim Of Its Own Success”
The Government has said that it is “a bit rich” for the Opposition to complain about the pace of development in Gibraltar when many of the construction projects currently underway were authorised by them when they were in office. Number Six says that, after the present administration was elected in 2011, it had to negotiate with developers to get them to reduce the scale, the height and the massing of projects which had been “pre-agreed with the GSD.”
Jörgen Pettersson, Chairman of the International Island Games Association has announced that the NatWest International Island Games opening ceremony is 100 days away.
The GSD says it is committed to a planning regime which will save open spaces for use by the community and calls on Government to consider doing likewise.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning is this week hosting a bicycle instructor-training course to support its wider STTPP policies. This important initiative will help promote safe and responsible cycling across the board.
The Warning of Significant Weather issued earlier this week has been extended. This latest warning is effective from 6pm this evening through to 4pm on Thursday afternoon.
A British Labour MEP, Claude Moraes, says he has been the target of various attempts to “hound him” out of a key role in the European parliament after he blocked legislation describing Gibraltar as a “colony.”
