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.
In an effort to give back to elder members of the community who are less likely to receive a Christmas gift or visit this year, the Citizens Advice Bureau, in conjunction with the Ministry for Social Services have launched a campaign to collect Christmas presents for a collection of elderly members of the community.
Gibraltar’s Delta Management, Fund managers for the Temple Rock PCC Fund one of Gibraltar’s leading firms for Experienced Investor Fund (EIF) recently announced the appointment of Nigel Birrell as a Director of Delta Management Services Ltd, Temple Rock’s fund management services provider. Delta is an independent company with over 40 years of relevant experience within the real estate industry as well as collective experience within diverse sectors including structural surveying, economics, financial services, and property management via firms such as Knight Frank and CBRE.
The GSD notes that it is already a year since the Fire Brigade Audit Report was completed, with, they say, still no word from Government on the way forward for the service and the relocation of the Fire Station. This, say the GSD, is despite the GSLP’s concern when in Opposition, of the ‘urgent necessity of such a review’, ‘real concerns fire fighters had over serious deficiencies they faced’ and the priority for a ‘badly needed new fire station’.
Albert Isola, Minister for Financial Services, signed an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between Gibraltar and the United Kingdom to improve international tax compliance last Thursday.
The signing took place during the Minister's attendance at the annual meeting of the OECD Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, held this year in Jakarta, Indonesia.