Criticising the GSD’s most recent press statement on the public healthcare system and the Primary Care Centre’s advance appointments system, the Government has insisted that unprecedented improvements have been made in many aspects of healthcare in Gibraltar.
The GSD has expressed concern over the current Primary Care Centre advanced appointment system. The party insists that there are ‘continued difficulties posed on the morning of the first day of each month for the booking of advance GP appointments’, they add that appointments are often filled within two hours, and witnesses have reported ugly scenes of arguments and flared tempers between those unable to obtain appointments.
Following the Chief Minister visit to Malta this week he touched upon a number of positive local matters that have been mentioned in the news recently. Commenting on the progress of the soon to be opened Commonwealth park Mr. Picardo said, ‘On our way to Convent Place, we drove slightly out of our way so that I could see the excellent work being done at the new Commonwealth Park which I know will soon be providing a much-needed splash of green space for Gibraltar’s families.
Tomorrow evening, UK political party UKIP will launch their European Parliament Campaign in Gibraltar, ahead of May’s elections. During the event, at the Eliott Hotel, the party present their South West and Gibraltar candidate Gawain Towler, who believes that the UK Government is not doing enough for Gibraltar in the face of the current on going dispute with Spain.
The Opposition has today noted that following the success of it’s actions in canvassing opinion and raising issues directly with the people of Gibraltar, it will continue to engage with the people of Gibraltar ‘in order to fully understand the issues that concern our community’.
They added, ‘If the Government finds this participative style of politics, listening to the people, in any way offensive it says more about the attitude of Government towards the electorate than that of the Opposition.’
