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.
Gibraltar Tourist Board will soon be introducing a new voluntary passport souvenir stamp which visitors will be able to obtain as an official memento of their visit to the Rock.
The idea developed by locally based accountant Eran Shay, has also been conceived as an innovative promotional tool for the Gibraltar tourist product as it includes the GTB website address www.visitgibraltar.gi
'Britain’s biggest warship', the helicopter carrier and assault ship HMS Ocean will conduct a boat transfer in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters tomorrow.
HMS Ocean has emerged from a scheduled period of maintenance, having received a substantial upgrade in capability and is part of the Cougar 14 Task Force.
Yesterday, Albert Isola, Minister with responsibility for Financial Services, hosted a financial services lunch at the Landmark Oriental in Hong Kong's central business district. The lunch was attended by some 60 funds, asset management and hedge funds professionals based in Hong Kong. A delegation from Gibraltar's funds industry was also present at the lunch.
Minister for the Environment, Dr. John Cortes, today unveiled the Department of the Environment’s newest asset, a ten metre cabin cruiser, dubbed 'Storm Petre'l. Dr. Cortes noted that the ship was a Research and Monitoring vessel primarily. He added that although the department does a lot of research already ‘it has to beg, steal and borrow’. Dr. Cortes went on to say that when the Department is deployed to carry out research or dives or to rescue birds, they will now be able to carry out their own work. Also with the help of an additional RHIB to be called 'Darwin' the Department will be able to monitor what is happening in the surrounding waters, more extensively.