Inquiries Bill Debate - GSD Says Picardo Resorts To “Lies and Smokescreens”
The GSD has said that, “in his utter desperation to distract from the real issues” Mr Picardo is now resorting to “pure invention and misinformation.”
The GSD has said that, “in his utter desperation to distract from the real issues” Mr Picardo is now resorting to “pure invention and misinformation.”
Officers from the RGP Operations Division currently investigating recent instances of Violence and Anti-Social Behaviour in the area of Glacis Estate have carried out several arrests. These follow an incident of Violent Disorder at Glacis Estate last Friday, where seven individuals were arrested by RGP Response Team officers and where bladed weapons were seized.
The Government has announced that all applications received for the Gibraltar Enterprise Scheme have now been reviewed by the scheme’s referral panel. The panel is mainly comprised of representatives from the Chamber of Commerce and the Gibraltar Federation of Small Businesses.
The Government notes that the Leader of the Opposition met the Governor, Vice Admiral Sir David Steel, on Tuesday to discuss the Inquiries Act 2024. Number Six says that the meeting, no doubt agreed to by His Excellency “out of his innate sense of unimpeachable professional courtesy”, in effect, “sought the establishment” of a new stage in the process of legislation in which the Opposition “was seeking to overturn the will of the democratically elected Parliament.”