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.
The Gibraltar National Dance Team rocked Germany by being crowned World Champions at the recent World Show Dance Championships. The event was staged in Riesa, with 3,301 dancers from 34 nations taking part. The event was organised for the renowned world governing body the International Dance Organisation (IDO) by the Germany Dance Federation (TAF), FSVG Riesa and a good friend of Gibraltar, IDO Vice President Michael Wednt.
Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar has today increased duty on cigarettes. The duty has gone up 10p per packet of cigarettes and came into effect from after midnight on 2nd 1st December, i.e. with effect from 2nd December.
The Chief Minister signed the relevant legal notices before his departure over the weekend for Her Majesty the Queen's Evening Reception at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.
Mr Picardo has also further extended the areas where Police and Customs officers have wider powers to deal with those suspected of acting in breach of existing provisions of the Tobacco Act to include an area between the frontier fence and the Ministry of Defence facility at Four Corners, given that this is now an area in the control of the Gibraltar Government. The area extends to the northern most part of Western Beach. This will now also require further repairs to the frontier fence to the east and west of the entry point into Gibraltar.
Her Majesty's Government has been in negotiations with the union Unite in relation to restoring parity for nursing staff and nursing allied professionals who work in the Elderly Residential Services of the Care Agency (Mount Alvernia, the Jewish Home, John Cochrane Ward and Calpe Ward) with their counterparts in the GHA.