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.
Thirty of Gibraltar’s macaques will next week be flown to the UK to a safari park in Scotland, as part of the Government’s ongoing Barbary Macaque Management Programme. Detailing the mission this morning at a press conference, Environment Minister Dr. John Cortes explained that monkeys from the Middle Hill troop, which frequents urban areas most in Gibraltar, will be relocated to a new home at Blair Drummond Wildlife Park in Stirling, Scotland.
In a back and fourth between the GSD and Government over power issues in Gibraltar, the Government has shut down comments made by the Opposition, insisting that the previous administration failed to address the issue in depth from 1996, until 2011.
In response to recent comments made by the GSD on Government debentures and public debt the Government has claimed that the decision to redeem Government debentures, whilst also giving savers the opportunity to invest their savings in the Gibraltar Savings Bank, has no impact on the level of public debt.