A new extension to St Martin’s School was officially opened today by the Minister for Education Gilbert Licudi. The extension was funded by the Kusuma Trust and includes a classroom, a therapy room, an office and a room for visiting consultants.
In line with the policy of explaining the Gibraltar point of view to elected politicians from Madrid and elsewhere, the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia met this morning with Mr Alfred Bosch, who is a Member of the "Congreso de los Diputados".
The Royal Gibraltar Police Drug Squad has arrested and charged a 42 year old local man on suspicion of drugs offences. The arrest took place on Wednesday the 4th December.
Media – Police Reports
Date: From 0700hrs the 04/12/2013 to 0700hrs the 05/12/2013
CRIME REPORTS
1 Report of Intentional Harassment, alarm or distress
The next open meeting of the GHA will take place at the Charles Hunt Room, John Mackintosh Hall at 2:30 pm on Wednesday 11th December 2013.
Members of the Public including GHA staff are invited to the meeting. Those who are considering attending the meeting can access the Board Papers via the GHA’s website at www.gha.gi as from Thursday 5th December 2013.
On Friday 29th September, Unite the Union was able to finalise the agreement that has led to the re-establishment of the parity that existed between the clinical staff of the Elderly Services (formerly the Elderly Care Agency) and the GHA.
When the Agenda for Change process was finalised within the GHA under the previous administration, the natural extension of this deal to the ECA never materialised. Unite felt that a great injustice had been done and with the assistance of the Unite structures within the ECA led by Wendy Clouter, a campaign to foment public awareness and condemnation that culminated in a demonstration shortly before the General Election of 2011 occurred.
Unite's working party now led by Frederick Martin secured a commitment from the new administration following their ethos of 'Equal pay for Equal Work' who then started the proceedings that led to the Final Agreement this past week.
The statement of Mr Bossino clearly demonstrates how limited is his knowledge of the labour market in Gibraltar.
The remarks he quotes from Mr Coyne and the UK Deputy Prime Minister are a reflection of the debate in the United Kingdom. There the position is that there has been a revival in the manufacturing sector of the economy which is being held back by the lack of skilled industrial workers especially in the engineering trades.
In the Gibraltar economy, the main area of shortage in industrial skills is in the construction industry which had been allowed by the GSD to be taken over by imported labour.
In 1996 the construction industry in Gibraltar had a male workforce of 1,081 of which 483 were Gibraltarians. By 2011 just before the elections the size of the industrial workforce had grown to 2,809, an increase of the order of 150% whilst the number of Gibraltarians in it had dropped by 25% to 368. By October 2012, the Gibraltarian participation had started recovering with a 7% increase in one year.
The Royal Gibraltar Police has again received reports of Malware (malicious software) scams circulating the internet and purporting to be from law enforcement agencies. This specific type of malware locks screens and requires that members of the public pay a fee to get their computers unlocked. The malware infects personal computers after users have accessed certain websites.
This is a fraud and users are advised NOT to pay out any monies or hand out any bank details. Law enforcement agencies would never contact members of the public via email and demand funds in this way.
