The GSD has deplored and condemned the recent announcement that the Instituto Cervantes is to close. The party has rubbished his statements not recignising the institution of the Chief Minister of Gibraltar’s constitution. A statement released by the Opposition insisted that his decision to close the Institute ‘represents a retrograde step in the context of the improvement of relations with the Spanish people at a cultural and indeed human level, an aim which is espoused by all political parties in Gibraltar but which has always been a corner stone of GSD policy.
GHA obstetrician/gynaecologist, Dr. Iola Williams will be volunteering in the Luwero District of Central Uganda as a member of ‘Care for Uganda’, a small charity that aims to raise the standards of maternal health in the country.
A reception at The Covent will mark the re launch of the Heritage Trust’s corporate membership scheme, next Tuesday. Sponsored by EY, the scheme offers the business community a way to support the community’s rich heritage and the work that the Trust carries out.
The Opposition has criticized the Government’s recently published Sustainable Traffic, Transport and Parking Plan, claiming that is an ‘expensive exercise with a predictable result.’
A local man has been jailed for a total of one year and six months after he admitted to throwing a glass at a woman’s face in the Salsa Fuego nightclub.
Following investigations into a number of burglaries at the GSLA premises on Bayside Road and the offices of the Gibraltar Government Construction Company, 18 year old Nabil Mendhurst El-Habali and a 17-year-old male juvenile were arrested.
Shooting down the GSD’s claim that the Chief Minister exaggerated his pledge to transparency, the Government has insisted that whilst the former administration ‘refused point-blank to answer questions from the press or from the public and gave the then Opposition just a handful of Parliamentary opportunities to ask any questions’ the current Government answers press questions regularly, holds Direct Democracy sessions to answer the public’s questions and chairs monthly sessions of Parliament.