The GSD has welcomed today’s report that the EU Commission’s Directorate-General on Environment has dismissed the Spanish Government’s complaints that EU environmental legislation has not been infringed in relation to Gibraltar’s bunkering activities, the Eastside project and the laying of the artificial reef.
The EU Commission's Directorate-General on Environment has ruled that, following complaints received from Spain, it is unable to identify any breach of EU environmental legislation in respect of bunkering activities, the Eastside or Sovereign Bay project and, in particular, the Artificial Reef System in North-West BGTW.
Whilst on a school cruise aboard the MS Devonian in 1964, Alan Russell, who was 15 at the time, visited Gibraltar. He was a pupil at the John Neilston Institution in Paisley, Scotland, and a chance encounter with a kind stranger who gave him a sketch of the Rock has lingered in his memory all these years.
After Wednesday night’s opening ceremony attention turned yesterday to the first full day of competition. Mark Tewkesbury was Gibraltar’s first competitor in action as he took on Othniel Bailey from St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Squash preliminary round. Mark battled and at one stage was 2 – 1 up however he was to lose three sets to two to exit the main singles competition. There were better fortunes for Gibraltar’s Anthony Brindle who won his 1st round match 3 –nil and his currently on court in the 2nd round. Christian Navas, Gibraltar’s 3rd singles competitor, lost his opening match 3 – nil to Cameron Stafford from the Cayman Islands.
