European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
Following GSD Leader Daniel Feetham’s claims that funds being invested in Credit Finance Company Ltd have huge implications for the future financial stability of the communitythe Government has stated that Mr Feetham’s continued scaremongering can only be put down to a ‘desire to score political points and are of no substance whatsoever’. A statement released by Number 6 has admitted that longer-term deposits in the Savings Bank are being securely invested by the Government via Credit Finance Company Ltd, on terms that enable the Savings Bank Fund to make a reasonable return on its investment and with the maturity dates of such investments being matched with the corresponding maturity dates of deposits in the Savings Bank.
Opposition MP Selwyn Figueras has today summarized what he regards as the “latest ramblings” of the Minister for the Environment in respect of the Commonwealth Park by saying that: “The Minister clearly won't give us the estimate because he's embarrassed about how much his park is going to cost in the context of a community which was apparently broke a couple of years ago.”
An Equality Rights Group spokesman has said that the group is “shocked to hear more and more constant worries over designated parking spaces properly reserved for exclusive use by disabled citizens being all too frequently blocked or taken by able-bodied users.”