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 GSLP Youth Section has voiced their concern over the recent video depicting Spanish school children acting out a mock invasion of Gibraltar. The group condemns the video and insists that communities ‘should advocate the encouragement and promotion of peace, equality and tolerance. While most communities around the world work towards common principles and values regarding the latter, regrettably we sometimes come about a circumstance like this one, which invokes hatred, discrimination and callousness’.
A symposium, organised by Garrison Library Director, Dr. Jennifer Ballantine Perera and the Deputy Chief Minister, will mark the singing of the Treaty of Utrecht 300 year ago. The event will take place next Thursday and Friday at the Garrison Library and will include historians, academics and others from Gibraltar, the UK, Spain, the US and Utrecht itself.
Fabian Picardo, the Chief Minister, has written personally to all Barclays’ staff members following yesterday’s announcement that the bank would be closing down its retail operations with the loss of over 90 jobs.