The Government has said that Mr Feetham's surprise at the marine regulations “is clearly focussed on the fact that the Government has been able to produce such a robust, yet sensible, set of regulations that will, at the same time, assist the protection of marine life whilst allowing legitimate activities such as rod and line fishing to continue.”
The Government has said that, in its “overriding eagerness to criticise everything that the Government does, the Opposition continues to jump the gun and to betray a distinct lack of knowledge across the board on a whole range of issues.”
The GSD says it notes what it terms the “quite extraordinary interview” given by Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, to GBC in which, according to the pary, he yet again “tried to complicate what is a very simple issue.”
The GSD says it notes the lengthy response by the Government to its criticism that it is spending money as if there is no tomorrow funded by huge direct and indirect public debt, which the party says is “just simply intended to confuse people.”
In a Commons session last Friday Labour political Keith Vaz suggested that Gibraltar was used as an offshore site through which drug money was laundered. In a scornful response to this claim, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s letter to the MP, who attended the Gibraltar Government’s reception at the Labour Party Conference in September, noted that he is ‘outraged at the untrue way in which [he] specifically linked Gibraltar with the introduction of the proceeds of drug trafficking into the financial system’.
