Nov 01 - Government Releases Savings Bank Investment Figures
Following a week of controversy and speculation the Government have this evening published three tables of information detailing the Gibraltar Savings Bank’s investments and the total value of Savings Bank Debentures. The information was published as a response to Opposition leader Daniel Feetham’s Parliament question on GSB debentures and ‘other debt security outstanding’. The question focused on how much was and is held by residents and non-residents of Gibraltar, companies or partnerships and individuals.
Speaking in the house of Lords today on Wednesday’s incident involving a collision between Guardia Civil vessel Rio Tormes and a Gibraltar Defence police boat in BGTW, Conservative peer Baroness Hooper claimed that ‘guns were pointed at each other’ during the incident, although no shots were fired.
Ah, the fashion world, a strange place, an unknown plain upon which designers, models, celebrities and high society live. I never thought I'd be going to a fashion show or even report at one yet there I was at the newly renovated Grand Battery House for Runway Select.
Dr Darren Fa of the Gibraltar Museum recently returned from Sicily where he was invited to present the latest findings of the Gibraltar Museum’s Underwater Research Unit at the ‘Euploia Conference: Underwater Cultural Heritage Best Practices in a Mediterranean Context.’ The Organisers of the event were Sicily’s Superintendenza del Mare and USA’s Stanford University; countries represented at the meeting included Italy, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Albania, Turkey and Tunisia.
