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.
Speaking in the house of Lords today on Wednesday’s incident involving a collision between Guardia Civil vessel Rio Tormes and a Gibraltar Defence police boat in BGTW, Conservative peer Baroness Hooper claimed that ‘guns were pointed at each other’ during the incident, although no shots were fired.
Ah, the fashion world, a strange place, an unknown plain upon which designers, models, celebrities and high society live. I never thought I'd be going to a fashion show or even report at one yet there I was at the newly renovated Grand Battery House for Runway Select.
Dr Darren Fa of the Gibraltar Museum recently returned from Sicily where he was invited to present the latest findings of the Gibraltar Museum’s Underwater Research Unit at the ‘Euploia Conference: Underwater Cultural Heritage Best Practices in a Mediterranean Context.’ The Organisers of the event were Sicily’s Superintendenza del Mare and USA’s Stanford University; countries represented at the meeting included Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Albania, Turkey and Tunisia.
The Government has today insisted that the Opposition ‘has once again exposed itself to being found well short’ in it’s criticism of Dr. Cortes’ handling of Upper Rock surveillance and management. A No.6 statement insisted, ‘stating that Minister for the Environment Dr John Cortes has "abandoned" the Upper Rock is another example of the Opposition falling into the trap of assuming that just because it isn't aware of something, it isn't happening.’