Gibraltar’s inaugural philanthropic event, hosted by the Philanthropy Forum, was launched by former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, at a dinner event held in the Airport’s Wessex Lounge on Monday. Sir John is the Senior Advisor to Credit Suisse who, along with EY, Hassans and Isolas, founded the Forum earlier this year. Other attendees included the Chief Minister and Education Minister Gilbert Licudi.
The Government of Gibraltar has today corrected the misunderstanding made by certain Spanish media outlets reporting on the Chief Minister’s statements on yesterday’s BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme. They note that some media outlets have significantly altered the meaning and intention of Mr Picardo’s statements, taking them out of context.
For example Europa Press, claimed, ‘Picardo has warned of the risk that Guardia Civil patrols continue ‘their incursions into BGTW without advance warning and, when coming in from the sun, remaining unidentifiable for those carrying out provisioning of British or American vessels.’
The Defender of Gibraltar this morning attended the Magistrates Court in support of Julio Pons, of the Voice of Gibraltar Group, as he answered to charges relating to yesterday’s incident at the Frontier that saw him cut the rope, holding up the EU Flag.
The Defenders explained today that the matter was adjourned to the 13th December without any pleas being entered. They encourage members of the public to support Julio and attend the case at 10am on the morning of the 13th of December.
The GSD Opposition condemns the recent queues in the strongest possible terms. It is in this unhappy and worrying context that the GSD Opposition comments on the European Commission's decision of last Friday as it promised to do last week. The GSD continues to take a very serious view of the Commission's failure to condemn the clearly politically driven nature of Spain's recent measures at the frontier.
Two local juveniles aged 17 and 16 have been arrested and charged following a number of burglaries in commercial and Government premises during the month of November. The two young men were jointly charged with one count of burglary in respect of a burglary on the 20th November at commercial premises on Devil’s Tower Road.
The Royal Gibraltar Police’s Marine Section thwarted a drug smuggling operation at sea yesterday evening.
At about 9.20pm officers at the time patrolling the Western Anchorage noticed a fast moving vessel heading north, close to the anchored vessels in the area. The vessel which was not showing navigational lights was seen to have four occupants and to be loaded with bales.
Authors Clive, Geraldine and Stewart Finlayson have written a new book centred around the 19th Century. The authors’ book lavishly illustrated by their own phtoographs, uses texts written by 19th Century British naturalists and retraces their footsteps through scientific discovery and exploration, over a century later.
Commenting on the latest round of bad behaviour on the part of the Spanish Authorities, with the recent 21 hour incursion by Spanish Oceanographic Vessel ‘Ramon Margalef’ in BGTW, UKIP MEP for Gibraltar William Dartmouth insisted that the Spanish Government is displaying behaviour ‘more expected of a Latin America Banana Republic than of a mature European national and NATO ally.
