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.
Extensive works to turn the Victoria Stadium into an appropriate venue for the Gibraltar Music Festival this Saturday are still underway. As the countdown to the day runs thin, the GMF organisers have today released the timetable for the event.
Ahead of the Royal Navy’s flagship annual deployment, Operation Cougar, Naval vessels HMS Bulwark, RFA Wave Knight and RFA Lyme Bay are spending 48 hours in Gibraltar. Cougar is an amphibious deployment to areas of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern region.
HMS Bulwark is at the forefront of the deployment, carrying Royal Marines, aircraft and vehicles. She is an assault ship with the primary role of projecting Royal Marines across the beach in an amphibious operation.
The Government has said that the statements against Gibraltar today from Mr Montoro are “worthy of derision” adding that the Spanish minister “has adopted the unjustifiable statements of Mr Mendez de Vigo” by suggesting that Spain's exchequer loses in the region of €1bn a year to Gibraltar in tax evasion.