The Government has today published a Command Paper for a Bill to improve the protection given to trees in Gibraltar, fulfilling what it claims is another manifesto commitment. The Environmental Protection (Trees) Bill 2013 brings together and improves upon various legal instruments that were included in several Acts.
Following a week of controversy and speculation the Government have this evening published three tables of information detailing the Gibraltar Savings Bank’s investments and the total value of Savings Bank Debentures. The information was published as a response to Opposition leader Daniel Feetham’s Parliament question on GSB debentures and ‘other debt security outstanding’. The question focused on how much was and is held by residents and non-residents of Gibraltar, companies or partnerships and individuals.
Speaking in the house of Lords today on Wednesday’s incident involving a collision between Guardia Civil vessel Rio Tormes and a Gibraltar Defence police boat in BGTW, Conservative peer Baroness Hooper claimed that ‘guns were pointed at each other’ during the incident, although no shots were fired.
The Opposition stands by the concerns raised in its press release on the new St Joseph School’s classrooms and in its role to hold the Government to account, especially when these true facts were related by very informed and reliable sources from various quarters.
Instead of hurling abuse, the Minister for Education would do well to explain the delay in the opening of the facilities, which will only go a small way to improving the quality of education by decreasing the growing size of classrooms at a school and catchment area which has been ignored for nearly two years. The GSD had plans for the use of St Christopher’s School for the larger South District.
There was a collision between the Guardia Civil's Rio Tormes and a Gibraltar Defence Police launch on Wednesday morning, according to a spokesperson for the MOD.
