Local fashion retailer Oasis will host their second VIP Fashion Night on November 29th from 5:30 to 7:30pm. In an effort to display the shop’s Winter collection, customers will be treated to a selection of refreshments and discounts and offers on certain items.
In an interview with GBC’s News Editor Stephen Neish, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo claimed that Opposition Leader Daniel Feetham has sent emails to members of the GSLP claiming that the Government is lending money to party members via Credit Finance Company Ltd so that they can pay tax bills. Mr. Picardo insisted that Mr. Feetham’s claims are untrue.
Shortly after 4pm, yesterday afternoon, officers responded to a report of an Attempted Robbery at an establishment in Laguna Estate. As a result local 18-year-old Fatima Miriam El Chal of Fearless House, along with a 13 year old juvenile male were arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery by uniformed officers.
In response to the Opposition’s recent criticism of the Government’s handling of the fishing dispute, the Government has stated that the past 18 months has been spent mopping up the mess that the GSD left behind when they were in office.
A No.6 statement issued today notes, ‘People will never forget that the reason why Gibraltar finds itself in this situation in the first place is because the then GSD Government entered into a private agreement with a group of Spanish fishermen which allowed them to break the law with impunity in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters. The fact that these fishermen were allowed to use methods that were illegal under Gibraltar law for so many years has made it more difficult for the new GSLP/Liberal administration to wind the clock back.
From 0630hrs the 07/11/2013 to 0630hrs the 08/11/2013
CRIME REPORTS
1 report of intentional harassment or distress
1 report of assault
1 report of attempted burglary
1 report of attempted robbery
Ahead of his journey to London to represent the Gibraltar Ambulance Service at the Remembrance Day Ceremony in London on Sunday, Sigurd Haveland has been given the new Ambulance Service number one prototype uniform.
Two drama practitioners from the famous Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre have this week visited Gibraltar to carry out workshops with students from both Bayside and Westside Schools. Sponsored by the Kusuma Trust. The visit took place from the 4th to the 8th of November and saw the students explore issues of Shakespearean stagecraft and genre, while also working on specific plays.
In response to the Government’s latest statement on Credit Finance Company Ltd, a GSD statement has today noted that ‘it is so absurd, that it only needs to be stated to be rejected outright. Credit Finance Co Limited is not a bank nor is it managed at arms length from the Government. The Moneylenders Act creates a licensing regime in respect of money lending where the licensing authority is the Chief Minister himself and Credit Finance Co Limited is not regulated by the FSC or any independent regulator.
