Oct 27 - Govt Response on Financial Secretary Appointment 'Inadequate' - Claims GSD
The Opposition has responded to the Government’s latest statement about the reasoning for their choice of new Financial Secretary, who is a ‘friend and partner’ of Opposition leader Daniel Feetham.
Feetham has said that this response by the government is ‘inadequate’ and is ‘simply not serious politics to suggest that the Government is doing the Leader of the Opposition a favour by appointing his "friend and partner”’.
It is surprising, says the Government, that the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Daniel Feetham, seems to have chosen to object to the appointment by the Chief Minister of Mr Feetham's friend and law partner, Albert Mena, as Financial Secretary.
During his visit to London for the Gibraltar Day celebrations, the Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, held talks with the Chief Minister of Guernsey, Jonathan Le Tocq.
An Al Qaeda magazine article has called on terrorists to attack tankers passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, according to a report in yesterday’s Sunday Express.
In response to last week’s statement by Opposition Leader Daniel Feetham, on public debt, the Chief Minister has insisted that since the GSLP/Liberals election to Government the gross debt has been considerably reduced from £520m to £450m, and set to drop further.
