This afternoon Ministry of Culture official Daniel Guerrero, Minister for Culture Steven Linares and a representative of Saccone and Speed presented a cheque to the GBC Open Day Fund. The £370 donation was raised at the hugely popular Winter Party in Town event that featured Boney M.
The Minister for Financial Services and Gaming, Albert Isola, accompanied by officials from Gibraltar Finance (James Tipping and Philip Canessa) today attended the AIMA Hedge Funds conference in Hong Kong. Also present from Gibraltar were representatives from GSX and Grant Thornton as well as the Gibraltar representative in Hong Kong, Jason Cruz.
The GSD Opposition says it has received complaints from tenants at Resolution House in Laguna Estate about the lack of concern for the health and safety of residents during the refurbishment works within their housing estate.
Shortly after 6pm yesterday afternoon, Police and the Fire & Rescue Service attended to reports of a large fire within the old Gibraltar Casino building on Europa Road.
Here's the full text of Deputy Chief Minister Dr. Garcia's speech at the European Policy Centre yesterday. Throughout, he touched upon the Spanish position on frontier controls and other issues faced by Gibraltar:
'Good afternoon,
It is a pleasure to be here today for this briefing on the situation of Gibraltar in the European Union. I am very grateful to the European Policy Centre for the opportunity.
I am grateful firstly because the position of Gibraltar is generally not well known and secondly because it gives me the opportunity, on behalf of the Government and the people that I represent, to provide an accurate assessment of a position which has often been misrepresented.
69 year old local businessman Frederick Parody of Almond Lodge, Montagu Gardens faced the Magistrates’ Court this morning on charges on Sexual Assault upon a Child under the age of 13.
In an address to the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels yesterday evening, the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia declared that Spain ‘cannot be allowed to hold the whole of Europe to ransom in pursuit of her narrow political interests over Gibraltar’.