Sixteen college students and two teachers from the Falkenberg region in Halland, Sweden recently visited Gibraltar with the main aim being to study the social and working life of people in Gibraltar and in particular to enable the students to make contact with Gibraltarians who are actively involved in employment fields similar to their own or in which they have a particular interest.
Following a call from the Gibraltar Bar Council to re develop the training scheme for barristers and solicitors wishing to practice law in Gibraltar, the Government has teamed up with the Bar Council and the Chief Justice to reveal new requirements that will see a balance in training between barristers and solicitors who currently undergo different training systems despite then carrying out the same type of work. Currently barristers are admitted and enrolled upon completion of the Bar Professional Training Course, whilst solicitors must undertake a further two-year training period after completing their Legal Practice Course.
Media – Police Reports
Date: From 0600hrs the 12/03/2015 to 0600hrs the 13/03/2015
Following a report of a burglary at Notre Dame School in the early hours of the 11th of March 2015, shortly after 0630hrs that same day, officers of an Area Response team arrested two local juvenile males aged 14 years old and 16 years old respectively.
Gibraltar International Airport will welcome two new routes to its destinations list for this summer, increasing the number of destinations offered to seven. These additional five weekly flights will increase the total number of weekly departures to 37.
The Government has this afternoon said that the Leader of the Opposition has issued a press release in which he has “repeated statements that he has made when he has asked questions in Parliament to which he has already received answers.” This, says Number Six, “is done presumably on the premise that if you repeat an incorrect statement often enough, people will end up believing it.”
Minister for Traffic, Paul Balban today unveiled the first of a series of countdown timer systems for traffic light crossings. Forming part of the Draft Sustainable Traffic, Transport and Parking Pilot scheme, the first system, launched at the ever-busy crossing on Line Wall Road by City Hall, counts down the seconds left of crossing time, eliminating the flashing amber light sequence for vehicles.
Forming part of the 2015 Gibraltar Spring Festival of Art and Culture, Frontman of Marillion will return to the Rock to perform a unique concert in St. Michael’s Cave on Saturday.
