Responding to the GSD’s statement outlining the ‘lavish public expenditure’ of the Government, and the running of No.6 Convent Place the Government has insisted that it has previously provided the details of increased costs.
The Government has described the most recent in a series of post-Budget advertisements placed by the GSD in the Gibraltar Chronicle as being so “misleading” it must be based on "Voodoo Economics".
The Opposition has said that the Government's “nervous response” to last Friday's GSD advertisement pointing out that the entertainment and travel costs include not just the Chief Minister’s but also all other Ministers and staff at No 6, is a “smokescreen for Mr Picardo’s lavish public expenditure” and the political lifestyle he has become used to since taking over the running of the Government. The GSD says that Mr Picardo “cannot hide from the fact” that public expenditure in these areas is “growing hugely” and was “massively over budget” from the amounts he predicted last year.
Gibraltar’s Commonwealth Games Squad was finally named at the weekend with27 Athletes across 9 sporting events set to compete in the 20th edition of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, later this month.
The team is made up of a real blend of youth and experience, with few competing for the first time. Gibraltar will five swimmers this time around, including Games veteran Colin Bensadon, who will lead the swim team, which is made up of Jim Sanderson who competed last time in Delhi, and debutants Jordan Gonzalez, Christina Linares and Karl Pardo.
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo,. left Gibraltar today to attend meetings of Premiers of the UK Overseas Territories in the Cayman Islands. The different leaders have been convened to discuss the agenda of the Joint Ministerial Council to be held in December in London.
The National Archives of Gibraltar has launched its new website application. This is part of the long-term digitisation policy of the Government which will see the ever increasing storage of historical records in electronic form.
The GSD has today claimed that the Government's attempts to obfuscate the issue surrounding the cost of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on one fraud trial, by trying to professionally embarrass a member of the Opposition, is simply not going to work. The party insists that there is ‘no professional embarrassment to speak of however much the Government might try to suggest otherwise’.
The children of the Alameda Gardening Club have once again proved their talent with the planting of a glorious patch of sunflowers, just below the entrance to the Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park.
