The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
The Gibraltar Tourist Board has been shortlisted in the Travel Bulletin Star Awards 2019. Travel Bulletin is a leading industry title aimed at travel agents, homeworkers and industry professionals.
The Luce Foundation continues to support the Youth Service with funding for their annual Residential Project. A group of seventeen young people aged twelve and thirteen years old took part in a residential week which took place on the outskirts of el Puerto de Santa Maria, Cadiz. The group, accompanied by youth workers, teachers and a Police Officer, stayed in log cabins at a Residential Centre.
Members of the teachers' union Gibraltar NASUWT have voted to back industrial action over what it describes as the Government’s “failure to respond appropriately” to its pay adjustment claim and the fact that proper negotiations on pay had not begun “despite a delay of over 10 months.”
The Government says it notes the action brought by the Spanish Government on 10 April 2019 in Case T- 241/19. In this action, Spain seeks the annulment of the Commission decision of 19 December 2018 in which the Commission found that certain discreet aspects of the Income Tax Act 2010 constituted state aid.