The Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) investigation into the allegation that ‘whistle-blowers’ were incentivised to provide evidence to the McGrail Inquiry “has not uncovered any evidence that meets the threshold for criminal prosecution for Misconduct in Public Office.”
In a Commons session last Friday Labour political Keith Vaz suggested that Gibraltar was used as an offshore site through which drug money was laundered. In a scornful response to this claim, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s letter to the MP, who attended the Gibraltar Government’s reception at the Labour Party Conference in September, noted that he is ‘outraged at the untrue way in which [he] specifically linked Gibraltar with the introduction of the proceeds of drug trafficking into the financial system’.
A complaint lodged by the Spanish Ministry for Food and Environment over the Gibraltar Government’s recently released Tuna Preservation Regulations has sparked a response from No.6 in which they have claimed that the Spanish Government is trying to discredit Gibraltar.
The UK’s largest airline, easyJet will launch year round flights from Bristol to Gibraltar starting in Summer 2015. The airline, which already flies from London Gatwick to Gibraltar, will launch flights from Bristol on 19 April 2015.
Officially launching Gibraltar’s Christmas 2014 stamps yesterday evening, at a reception in the Gibraltar International Airport, Social Services Minister Samantha Sacramento revealed that the stamp designs had been extracted from a large Christmas themed collage that the users of the St. Bernadette’s Resource Centre had completed this year.