Oct 17 - Queen Grants Mayor Honorary Role
His Worship the Mayor of Gibraltar Anthony Lima has been granted a rare honorary role by the Queen.
His Worship the Mayor of Gibraltar Anthony Lima has been granted a rare honorary role by the Queen.
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, has visited Sacred Heart Middle School at the invitation of Year 7 children who had been studying the 1967 Referendum as part of a school-wide local history initiative. He then took questions on the Referendum and on how the political process works in Gibraltar. Mr Picardo gave the children a unique insight into how local politics functions.
‘Rock and Fortress,’ the private concern that has been managing and operating the World War Two Tunnels and O’Hara’s Battery attractions has been taken over by the Government. The new arrangements will come into place on November 1st.
The Ministry for Tourism has erected new pedestrian signposts to assist tourists walking up and down the Upper Town Area. It follows reports of visitors taking wrong turnings while trying to reach the Upper Rock nature reserve and getting stranded in Moorish Castle Estate instead.
With Gibraltar’s Tourist season slowly winding into it’s low season, yesterday’s launch of the second Gibraltar International Jazz Festival hopes to reel in further outsiders to Gibraltar, for an extended weekend of jazz music at the recently renovated Queen’s Theatre. In an attempt to up the ante following last year’s inaugural Jazz festival, the line up has seen the addition of well loved television presenter and jazz man, Jools Holland and former Spice girl, Mel C to this year’s line up.
Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar has now taken delivery of a replacement G1 vehicle.
The vehicle is a Tesla Signature Model S imported from California by Bassadone Motors.
The Tesla is an entirely electric vehicle and its acquisition is part of the Government's programme to replace its vehicle fleet with more environmentally friendly vehicles. The Tesla vehicle does not produce any emissions whatsoever when driven. It requires charging from the electricity grid.
In the afternoon of Wednesday 16 October 2013 officers of the RGP Drug Squad stopped for the purpose of searching under the Crimes Act(Drugs Misuse) Edson CAETANO d.o.b. 06/11/80 of Castle Road. On being searched approximately 2.5 grams of Herbal Cannabis was found he was therefore arrested on suspicion of being in Possession of a Controlled Drug.
A search warrant was then executed at CAETANO’s residence where a further amount of Herbal Cannabis, a small piece of Cannabis Resin and items associated with the supply of drugs were found.
From 0700hrs the 16/10/2013 to 0700hrs the 17/10/2013
4 Reports of Theft
1 Report of Criminal damage
6 Persons arrested for Warrants
1 Person arrested for Possession & possession with intent to supply a controlled drug