In regard to yesterday’s statement from Together Gibraltar on schools re-opening, the Government says they are “wrong to suggest that the Government has ever taken any risk”.
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Ministry of Equality is encouraging members of the public to revisit or familiarise themselves with the story of the Holocaust.
The Chief Minster has written to the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to express the condolences and solidarity of the Government of Gibraltar and of the People of Gibraltar on the announcement of COVID-19 deaths in the United Kingdom exceeding 100,000 today.
Gibraltar Parents for Education (GPFE) has today restated its core policy objective that, in the context of the pandemic, schools should be the last to close and the first to open. The group has also confirmed that it is satisfied with the Government’s intention to open schools on 1 February, following a three week closure. The group says it believes that any further delay to reopening, even in the context of the imminent midterm, “would be unnecessarily damaging for children and their families.”
The Government says it is extremely saddened to confirm four further deaths in our community related to COVID-19, bringing the total to 69.
