The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo, will leave Gibraltar this Sunday, to attend next week’s Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. On Sunday evening he will host a reception at which the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has agreed to speak.
This evening, as from 6 pm, Ocean Village hot spot, Dusk, will open its doors to the official ‘End of Summer Party’ to mark the end of a remarkably warm and successful season.
The event will see Dj Lazy Daiz, perhaps better known as local record spinner Carl Villarubia, man the decks. Special guest Rudi Tiessler and his live sax performance will also grace the evening.
Culture Minister Steven Linares this morning presented cheques to the value of £7000 this morning to a number of charities involved in the Gibraltar Fair and National Day festivities. These included the Catholic Education Service, the Gibraltar Lions Club, the Psychological Support Group and St. John’s Ambulance.
Commenting on the matter, Minister Linares, who was accompanied by SDGG Chairman Dennis Matthews, noted that the charities provided the fair with a unique local flavour. He added, ‘Her Majesty’s Government is indebted to those charities and to other non-charitable organisations and volunteer groups, because of the variety and support they bring to our annual festivities.’
Gibraltarian author M.G. Sanchez has just released a new novel about Gibraltar. Entitled The Escape Artist: A Gibraltarian novel, it is set in the decade between 1970 and 1980 and features a plot that alternates between Cambridge, Venice and Gibraltar. Professor John A. Stotesbury, adjunct Professor in Postcolonial Literatures from the University of Oulu, has already described the book as “fascinating and highly readable,” while Dr Esterino Adami, an English Literature Professor from the University of Turin, has praised how in the book M. G. Sanchez “brings to the fore a strong sense of Gibraltarian identity.”
