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.
A 17 year old local youth and a 38 year old Spanish national were arrested by HM Customs yesterday evening at British Lines Road. Both persons were seen exporting goods over the frontier fence and were arrested under the provisions of the Imports and Exports Act.
A raffle was held this Wednesday, by the AKIN Sierra Leone Project, in aid of their on-going effort to build schools and orphanages in Sierra Leone. The event was hosted in conjunction with the Gibraltar Students Association. The raffle managed to raise £1,000, which will be used to provide a new set of latrines at the Kabala Amputee primary school. The winning ticket numbers were drawn by Gabriella Martinez, along with other members of the committee. The first prize of two Gibraltar Music Festival Tickets and one night’s accommodation at Hotel Barceló in Marbella was awarded to ticket number 178, belonging to Louise Mifsud.
The GSLP Youth Section held a General Meeting yesterday, Thursday 5th September. This meeting was previously announced on several occasions and was extremely well attended by both old and new young members of the Party.