The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
In a statement to the press, an Equality Rights Group spokesman has said that ‘Unite the Union has rightly expressed shock at the recent announcement of severe local MOD job losses. ERG stands fully and unquestioningly by Unite and all affected workers in both solidarity and defence of ordinary working people’s right to a just and decent livelihood.
At approximately 7pm on the 3rd October, HM Customs were alerted by Officers of the GDP of an unidentified person entering Gibraltar illegally via the Western Beach frontier fence.