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’.
A complaint lodged by the Spanish Ministry for Food and Environment over the Gibraltar Government’s recently released Tuna Preservation Regulations has sparked a response from No.6 in which they have claimed that the Spanish Government is trying to discredit Gibraltar.
The Opposition has brought to light the details of a Government company dubbed Europa Stadium Limited, with directors including the Chief Secretary and former Financial Secretary Dilip Dayaram Tranthdas. The party has expressed concern that the Government has ‘clearly already been making plans for the construction of the Europa Stadium even though the DPC has not even made a decision on the matter.’
