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.
The GHA is holding its 7th annual Staff Awards Ceremony at the John Mackintosh Hall on Thursday 6th November 2014 at 6.00 pm.
GHA staff and their families will attend the ceremony to receive awards for their long service with the GHA. In addition, there will be nine special awards given to GHA staff in recognition of outstanding individual and team performance in 2013/14.
Following last month’s visit of EuroCOP (European Confederation of Police) president Anna Nellberg, the Gibraltar Defence Police Federation Committee has revealed that its application for membership has been granted. Support has been extended to the federation from Spanish Police Representative bodies including La Asociacion Unificada de Guardias Civiles.
A talk on James Joyce’s novel ‘Ulysses’ will be delivered this evening by Charles Durante. ‘Ulysses’ is considered a landmark of world literature. Published in 1922, it has acquired iconic status, becoming the quintessential modernist text, endlessly and exhaustively read and studied by devoted readers and academics. Joyce wanted to write a modern Irish nationalist epic, a vast comic novel, full of pathos, satirical humour, vitality and playfulness.