It has emerged that the newly appointed Captain of the Port, Bob Sanguinetti, was “severely reprimanded” at a court martial after a Royal Navy frigate he was in charge of hit some rocks off the coast of Norway. The incident took place in September 2000 whilst HMS Grafton was navigating south of Oslo.
Following the resignation of Captain Roy Stanbrook, the Minister for the Port, Neil Costa, has announced the appointment of Bob Sanguinetti as the new Chief Executive of the Gibraltar Port Authority and Captain of the Port.
Gibraltar Finance, together with members of the Gibraltar Funds & Investments Association (GFIA), will be attending and exhibiting at the EuroHedge Summit 2014 which will be held on the 29th and 30th April 2014 at the Palais de la Bourse, Paris.
The Government wishes to thank the emergency services and the technical staff of Gibelec for their excellent work at the Waterport power station on Sunday afternoon. The response was led by the Gibraltar Electricity Authority, the Royal Gibraltar Police and the City Fire Brigade, who were ably assisted by the Defence Fire Service.
Date: From 0630hrs the 17/04/2014 to 0630hrs the 22/04/2014
CRIME REPORTS
The UK Labour party has written to UK Ministers asking them to confirm if the average border delay between Gibraltar and Spain now stands at over 90 minutes long.
The party claims that the latest data collected on the ground in Gibraltar, and seen by Labour, suggests that the average delay in March for travellers leaving Gibraltar and crossing into Spain was 91 minutes long, whilst the longest individual delay recorded at the crossing last month was 180 minutes long.
Yesterday evening in a friendly match against Hungary, the GFA’s Under 19s National Squad drew 2 – 2 at the Victoria Stadium. Goals for the home side were scored by Aaron Barnet and Anthony Hernandez within the first half of the match.
Yesterday evening the first cadre of police trainees for 2014 completed their first year in service. The initiative was kick started by the RGP and the Ministry for Enterprise and Training and saw six youngsters aged sixteen and seventeen experience ‘serving the public and Gibraltar alongside police officers, whilst participating in a structured training and development programme.’ Five of the six trainees completed the year long course.
