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 Ministry of Culture is pleased to announce the details of this year’s National Week Beer Fest, which will be held on Friday 30th August 2013. The event will be staged at the Bayside Sports Complex between 7pm and 12 midnight.
The GSD has issued the following statement on the Sunborn floating hotel:
The Leader of the GSD Opposition, Daniel Feetham has written to the Speaker of the Parliament making a formal complaint that the Chief Minister and Minister Bossano have deliberately misled Parliament on issues of fundamental importance to the public finances of this community and the use to which the Government is putting hundreds of millions of pounds of savers’ monies.
According to media reports, the Spanish Customs (Vigilancia Aduanera) will step up its campaign to tackle drug and tobacco smuggling at the frontier this August with the introduction of a scanner to detect any illicit cargo hidden in vehicles. This measure comes following a reported increase in the smuggling trade at a time when Spain is suffering a serious economic crisis which has hit the Campo area the hardest.