European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for ForeignAffairs José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels on Thursday 16th May.
Equality Rights Group (ERG)/Action on Poverty (AOP) have expressed ‘strong dismay’ at reports that a severely disabled person and their elderly father allegedly had to struggle badly to use the toilet at a downtown shopping centre. The group says this is an ‘unpalatable scenario’ to have to highlight but it ‘illustrates precisely the unacceptable face of everyday discrimination that the disabled can still encounter even today.’
Last week elements of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment (RG) Chain of Command were hosted by Commanding Officer Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron, Lieutenant Commander Colman and his team to display the capabilities of the Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice to signal the end of World War One, “the War to end all Wars”, on the 11th November 1918.