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 GSD has today said that the Government cannot continue to equate the comments it may make of their handling of the current crisis with Spain, with criticisms of Gibraltar. They are not the same.
The GSD warns our community against the clearly manipulative way in which the Government has attempted to distort what the Leader of the Opposition has said in his statements and sees this as another example of a Government more interested in distortion and manipulation than substance.
The fact is that the GSD and its Leader, Daniel Feetham, have criticised the Spanish Government for their recent campaign against Gibraltar on numerous occasions describing that campaign as immoral, unjustified and illegal. It repeats the same point today especially in the light of the recent actions at the frontier.
On the 17 October 2013 the RGP’s Police Constable Henry Sacramento led the National Association of Police Well-Being Advisors workshop. The workshop was held in Oxford, in the United Kingdom and is the second workshop organised by NAPWA since PC Sacramento was re elected as chairperson of the association.
Holding an annual training day was an undertaking given by PC Sacramento prior to his election as chairperson. This year’s training day was on stress in the emergency services. The workshop was delivered by Dr Noreen Tehrani and proved to be very useful in learning techniques on how to identify stress and how to deal with employees suffering from stress. This was not focused solely on clients but also on the welfare advisors, who are often themselves susceptible to stress. Stress prevention also featured strongly in the workshop.
Local authors Sam Benady and Mary Chiappe will be launching their fifth Bresciano mystery, The Devil’s Tongue, during this weekend’s Literary Festival. Sam and Mary will be talking to broadcaster David Freeman at 5:00pm on Saturday 26 October in the Upper Reading Room of the Garrison Library.