Some 40 members of the Gibraltar Emergency Services recently attended a two day workshop run by the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), supported by representatives from the equivalent Military Organisation. The workshop provided refresher training to those attending and reinforced the original training on the same subject that was given in September 2009.
Following yesterday’s session of Parliament, which saw the matter of the runway tunnel discussed extensively, The GSD is once again urging the Government to reveal to the public their process of awarding the contract, without tender, to GJBS.
The Spanish daily El Mundo has claimed that the United Kingdom supported Spain’s successful bid to win a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
As part of next week’s Jazz Festival activities trumpeter and composer Randy Brecker will offer a clinic at the Eliott Hotel on Wednesday 22nd October at 10pm.
Randy is said to have helped form jazz, R&B and rock as we know it today, over four decades, having graced hundreds of tracks by a gamut of artists including Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, James Taylor and Frank Zappa.
A talk on James Joyce’s novel ‘Ulysses’ will be delivered next month by Charles Durante. ‘Ulysses’ is considered a landmark of world literature. Published in 1922, it has acquired iconic status, becoming the quintessential modernist text, endlessly and exhaustively read and studied by devoted readers and academics. Joyce wanted to write a modern Irish nationalist epic, a vast comic novel, full of pathos, satirical humour, vitality and playfulness.