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.
After a few unseasonably warm weeks, cold northerly winds are set to hit Gibraltar as from Friday night. According to the BBC’s forecasters, temperatures are predicted to drop to 10C on Friday night and 9C on Saturday.
The last lecture in the current series ‘History of Gibraltar in Five Parts’ is to be given by Mr Dennis Beiso on the subject of ‘History of an Identity.’ The lecture was scheduled for Thursday 21st November but it has been postponed. It will now be given at the John Mackintosh Hall on Thursday 12th December at 7pm.
The seventh and final member of the Vine Trust Gibraltar work party team has returned home from Tanzania. Methodist Minister, Fidel Patron joined the other six work-party volunteers from Gibraltar to help on community projects near Moshi in northern Tanzania. During the two-week long trip the team worked on two schools, which are attended by a large number of orphans, and built a home for a disabled father and his family. As well as lending his support to the construction work, Fidel also opted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro during his trip.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, is to embark on a series of speeches to influential and academic audiences in Spain, as part of a campaign to explain HM Government of Gibraltar’s policy towards Spain.
Mr Picardo is also granting interviews to a series of Media, including Television, Radio and Press.