The Minister for Education has reacted to the statement from Edwin Reyes by saying that the investment made in education over the past three and a half years “dwarfs the amounts ever spent by the GSD.”
The Government has said that the latest remarks from Spanish Foreign Minister Snr Margallo demonstrate once again that he is “entirely obsessed” with Gibraltar.
The GSD says it notes that the works to the extension of No 6 Convent Place are nearly complete. The party argues that, “quite apart from the fact that this huge extension is not in keeping with Georgian buildings in Town Range of significant heritage value, it is highly questionable whether the Government needed to spend millions of pounds on a luxurious extension to the offices of the Chief Minister when there are a number of schools which need refurbishment.” Amongst these, the GSD highlights Bishop Fitzgerald, Governor’s Meadow and Bayside School.
The GSD has said that it is concerned that Credit Finance Company Limited, a Government company which it claims is spending £400 million of monies invested in the Gibraltar Savings Bank locally by savers, and which the GSD says is being used to hide half of the public debt, has yet to file its accounts with Companies House and has failed to do so as required by law. The GSD says that Credit Finance Company Limited was incorporated on 17th February 2012, so the law requires that accounts should have been filed, at the latest, by 16th August 2014. The Opposition stresses that this “raises very serious good governance issues.”
The Minister for Business and Employment, Neil Costa, has just returned from the UK on a visit to familiarise himself with the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal processes in the UK. The Minister was accompanied by Mr John Paul Fa, the Ministry’s Legal Counsel.
