European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
Shortly after midnight yesterday evening, RGP officers arrested a local man on suspicion of being in possession of a commercial quantity of tobacco, dangerous driving and for failing to stop when signalled by a police officer.
In two separate cases this week, RGP Officers of both the Criminal Investigation Department and the Serious Crime Unit have arrested three local men and a locally resident British national on accounts of suspicion of theft, false accounting and fraud.
The first instance saw both a 34-year-old local man arrested on suspicion of theft and false accounting, following the theft of approximately £16,000 from the Government of Gibraltar. A 27-year-old local man was arrested on suspicion of Handling Stolen Goods. Both men were released on bail pending further inquiries.
The Government has issued the following statement on a recent amendment passed in Parliament:
A major amendment to the Medical and Health Act 1997 was passed in Parliament last week. Until then, the law only provided mechanisms for registration and control of key players in the health sector such as doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists. There was however, a very large vacuum when it came to the allied health professions. As the law stood until last week, practitioners of these professions (which includes Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Chiropodists, Dieticians and Osteopaths) were outside the regulatory framework.
Professor Clive Finlayson and Dr Geraldine Finlayson have recently returned from Israel. They were invited guests of the Israeli Commission for UNESCO, the Regional Council Hof HaCarmel, the University of Haifa and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, for the ceremony marking the inscription by UNESCO of the Mount Carmel Caves in Nahal Me’arot Nature Reserve as a World Heritage Site. The site is the most recent one reflecting caves and early human occupation to be inscribed by UNESCO and has obvious parallels and affinities with Gibraltar’s own caves.