The Gibraltar Model Soldier Society is holding an exhibition from Monday the 30th September to Friday the 4th October 2013 at the John Mackintosh Hall. There will be various toy and model figures, dioramas and collections on display during this week.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo today met with representatives of the local Unite the Union branch, as well as members of Spain’s largest trade union Comisiones Obreras and UGT.
Mr. Picardo has been adamant in his insistence that cross border union cooperation is necessary for Gibraltar. During a recent conference hosted by Unite, covering the matter of Industrial Relations, Mr. Picardo insisted that they were looking into convincing un-registered cross border workers to register officially, as they would then benefit from laws protecting workers.
With the EU Commission delegation arriving this morning ahead of today’s inspection of the Gibraltar Spain frontier and its border controls on each side, Spanish independent trade Union CSIF once again held a demonstration on the La Linea side of the border. The Union, which covers workers in the surrounding Campo de Gibraltar area, continued to protest the fact that Ayuntamiento workers are still owed several months of salary from the council.
The Opposition is asking the Government to provide details of the intended purpose of “Strand Credit Finance Company Limited” – a UK company, which according to information available to the Opposition, appears to have common directors to Credit Finance Company Limited, the Gibraltar company that has received more than £307 million of savers’ money from the Gibraltar Savings Bank (“the GSB”) and has loaned over £30 million to the owners of the Sunborn Hotel.
It will be recalled that in July of his year, the Opposition had been questioning the Government as to the manner in which it was using the money of GSB debenture holders in order to fund Government projects. The Government had done so by causing the GSB to invest over £307 million in a Gibraltar company called Credit Finance Company Limited, which in turn, was then lending money to private entities and also the management company of certain housing estates. The loan to the Sunborn Hotel was only admitted to exist by the Chief Minister in an interview with the Chronicle a day after the by-election, despite repeated calls by the Opposition to come clean on the issue both in Parliament and outside it.
