July 01 - Guardroom Guns To Be Refurbished
Early tomorrow morning, Tuesday 2 July, the two guns and their gun carriages will be removed from outside the Convent Guardroom in order that they can be fully refurbished.
July 01 - Drugs Conviction - Ballester
Thirty-three year old Manuel Ballester was today sentenced in the Magistrates’ Court following his convictions for obstructing police and for possession of a controlled drug, 69 grams of Cannabis Resin and as a result of separate case, for possession of a further 36 grams of Cannabis Resin.
July 01 - Old Age Pensions Increase
In accordance with the manifesto commitment and the previously announced policy of the GSLP/Liberal Government, social insurance old age pensions will be increased with effect from 1st August 2013 in line with the increase in the Retail Price Index.
July 01 - Work In Gorham's Cave Starts Next Week – Vanguard Cave Progress Update
The annual excavations at Gorham’s Cave commence next week but scientists have already been working in Vanguard Cave, sister cave to Gorham’s, for about a month and with spectacular results.
The excavations at Vanguard Cave commenced in 2012. Previously, small- scale soundings had indicated the site’s potential. Radio-carbon results from last year revealed that the youngest levels at this site were on the limit of radio- carbon dating, over 40 thousand years ago (kyr), which meant that the entire 17- metre deep sequence would have to be dated by other means. Sampling has been done this year for dating sand grains using the technique of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL); the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the Gibraltar Museum came to a collaborative agreement recently and samples have been taken from the areas so far excavated. This will permit us to know the time frame that Vanguard Cave represents.
