Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
In a sitting of the UK Parliament last week, Democratic Unionist politician Ian Paisley Jnr probed Minister for Europe, David Lidington on frontier queues at the Gibraltar – La Linea border.
In the heart of Tangier, not far from the centuries old medina, lies St Andrew’s Church – the ‘English Church’ – and surrounding it, a small leafy graveyard. An oasis of calm in frantic Tangier, one could almost be in an English village churchyard.
The Minister for Culture, Steven Linares, has sent a message of best wishes on behalf of everyone in Gibraltar to Miss Gibraltar’s 1st Princess, Kristy Torres. Kristy will be participating at the Miss International Pageant taking place in Japan tomorrow.
The Opposition’s response to Ministers Isola’s Party Political Broadcast is yet another example of their negative scatter gun approach to politics which does such a disservice to our Community and which more and more people are disengaging from, says the Government. The Opposition seem to think, says Number Six, that by throwing insults and ill-thought criticism they may deflect from their own inability to be constructive and put Gibraltar first.