Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
The Government says that it considers the latest statement by the Opposition on power generation issues to be the “height of political opportunism and hypocrisy.” The reality, it says, is that the problems in electricity generation and distribution that Gibraltar has experienced “stem directly from their own mismanagement of the issue during the nearly sixteen years that they were in Government.”
Following the RGP/GDP seizure of 570 kilos of Cannabis Resin at sea on the 6th September both defendants have since appeared in court and pleaded guilty.
Constantine PASCARU, aged 20 years, a Rumanian National. Oscar MORALES PINERO, aged 35, a Spanish National resident of La Linea. Were jointly charged with:
A meeting was held between Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and UK Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, in advance of the traditional Gibraltar Reception held during the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. The men discussed a number of ‘topical Gibraltar issues of mutual interest’.