The Government has said that the remarks by to Snr Luis de Guindos yesterday in answer to a question by Spanish Partido Popular MEP Pablo Zalba Bidegain in relation to Gibraltar's tax legislation “are as predictable as they are untrue and erroneous.” Number Six says that it is unfortunate that De Guindos chooses to “steadfastly ignore facts and reality.”
His Excellency the Governor Sir James Dutton will leave Gibraltar on Monday 28 September.
Earlier on this year the GSD drew attention to complaints from the construction sector at the way the Government had allocated a contract - worth in excess of £1.5 million - to a start up company called Bizzy Bee Limited which, the party said at the time, is owned by “well-known GSLP supporters”. The contract was, amongst other things, to renew pavements at Varyl Begg Estate.
The Chief Minister has asked the Chief Secretary, Mr Ernest Gomez, to contact the Leader of the Opposition, Daniel Feetham in order to facilitate contact with senior civil servants in the run up to the General Election.
Elliott Phillips, the GSD’s employment spokesman, has said that “despite hollow assurances” by the Chief Minister months ago that the findings of the investigation into the allegations of bullying made by 35 trainees would be available by mid-May 2015 the public is none the wiser as to its outcome.
