Minister Isola has returned to London having completed a successful week of meetings and presentations in China on trade, communications and financial services, including an address to the Willis Towers Watson senior executive team for all their China offices in Nanjing. A “Gibraltar” seminar was also hosted at the British Consulate in Shanghai.
Gibraltar must get a Brexit deal that reflects and protects its special status by retaining free movement of people with Spain, say two of Britain’s biggest pro-European groups.
15 years ago Brian Callaghan, organiser of the Gibraltar Chess Festival, had a dream. His aim was to create a niche market for chess players at the start of every year but never in his wildest dreams would he have imagined that 15 years on the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival would become the best open tournament in the world attracting the world’s elite players.
This is the first year Gibraltar will be taking part in World Hijab Day, an event which is celebrated across 140 countries across the world regardless of religious backgrounds.
The Government says that the grading of Gibraltar’s bathing waters has improved in recent years, according to the latest data. All bathing waters in Gibraltar are sampled by the Environmental Agency on weekly basis, the samples are analysed by the Public Analyst at the Gibraltar Health Authority.
The GSD says that it considers that the Minister for Justice, Neil Costa, and, through him, the Government of Gibraltar need to carefully consider what steps they should now take, in the interests of law and order, in the decision to grant parole to Issac Marrache. In particular, says the Opposition, they need to review whether the Minister was right to attempt to discontinue his appeal against the decision of the Parole Board chaired by Pepe Baldachino.
M.O. Productions has announced that the International Adjudicator travelling from the United Kingdom for the 15th edition of the Gibraltar International Dance Festival is Ms Jodie Clark.