During his week-long visit to Gibraltar, His Excellency Cav. Gr. Cr. Johannes Niederhauser, Grand Chancellor of the Order of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus, of the Royal House of Savoy, paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia, at No 6 Convent Place this morning. His Excellency was accompanied by Mr Tony Lombard.
Reacting to a GSD statement made earlier today, the Government says that the Opposition has the “audacity to complain about tobacco related activity in housing estates and on particular beaches as if this problem had not surfaced and grown during their sixteen years in power.”
The Opposition says it is concerned at the increase in tobacco smuggling activity in certain areas in Gibraltar which is now, according to them, “clearly getting out of control.”
The GSD says that it notes the “stark refusal by the Government to come clean” on whether changes to the Nature Protection legislation will allow Spanish Fishermen to fish with nets in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters without them actually having to apply for a licence in Gibraltar (e.g. by virtue of their existing membership of one of the Algeciras or La Linea Cofradias).
During the Chief Minister’s recent visit to Washington DC, he was the guest of honour at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars' (TWC) headquarters where he met the first group of 11 students to be participating in the Gibraltar Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Training Program. Over lunch with the interns, the Chief Minister said: “You are the pioneers, and I hope you can look back and see that you broke ground on something really special.”
