The Chief Minister notes with disappointment that the Spanish newspaper Vozpopuli has published “an incomplete and therefore misleading report” of the judgment given by the Chief Justice earlier this year in Mr Picardo's defamation claim against Manos Limpias and its principal officer, Miguel Bernad.
The Opposition says that it was revealed last week, in answers to questions in Parliament by the Shadow spokesman for Transport, Selwyn Figueras, that Big Publications Limited (‘the Company’), which was awarded the bus advertising contract in 2012 following the election of the GSLP/Liberals to Government, “has failed to deliver anywhere near the level of revenue promised by it to the Bus Company.”
The Minister for the Port, Neil Costa, will shortly be heading to Hong Kong as part of the Gibraltar Government’s continuing campaign to “aggressively market the Port of Gibraltar on a global scale.”
The Government has commissioned a legal opinion on the definition of innocent passage given the discussions relating to the procedure which is used at present to categorise the entry into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters of foreign state vessels.
