The Gibraltar National Book Council, chaired by Minister for Culture John Cortes, met last week with academics Prof Elena Seoane from the University of Vigo and Prof Cristina Suarez-Gomez from the University of the Balearic Islands to discuss research into Gibraltar’s languages and develop ideas and proposals to promote Gibraltarian Literature and Llanito. Also discussed was the forthcoming publication on linguistic biographies.
The Minister for Business and Tourism, Vijay Daryanani, has met with local darts players Craig Galliano, Sean Negrette and Justin Hewitt to wish them luck in the Professional Darts Corporation development tour throughout the UK this year.
The Minister for Sport, Steven Linares, has announced that GAAA’s President has been voted on to the European Athletics council.
Professor Geraldine Finlayson of the Gibraltar National Museum recently gave a webinar on the subject “The Pleistocene and Holocene conditions for trans-Saharan migrants at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert” which was organized by the prestigious Swiss Ornithological Institute.
