British art critic, writer and broadcaster Matthew Collings has visited Gibraltar this week to meet with the nine artists selected to represent the Rock in London at an Exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space.
This week saw the official launch of Gibraltar’s first Business Improvement District (BID). The not-for-profit organisation will professionally manage the BID area and deliver on a five year business plan to improve the trading environment for the 1000+ businesses within it.
The GSD has said that the ending of the reciprocal healthcare arrangements by Spain “brings into sharp focus” the handling of the Brexit negotiations since 2016 by the Gibraltar Government. The party says that, for years, it has been saying that they “mishandled the negotiations by giving away rights to frontier workers with no equivalent rights in return for people resident here.”
The Chamber of Commerce has issued its reaction to this year’s Budget. The Chamber argues that there is no commitment to rein in spending or cut out waste and improve civil service efficiency “despite millions spent on e-government.” It also says that the increase in income tax “and other stealth taxes” will be used to fund future government expenditure adding that the Covid recovery charge is “ill-thought through and affects smaller businesses disproportionately.”
