Sep 23 - Two More Spanish Nationals Arrested Following Rock Throwing Incident
Two Spanish Nationals were arrested yesterday over the incident at the Frontier on the 19th September when Police Officers were pelted with rocks by a large group of men.
Two Spanish Nationals were arrested yesterday over the incident at the Frontier on the 19th September when Police Officers were pelted with rocks by a large group of men.
This week Health and Environment Minister Dr. John Cortes attended the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a high level meeting in New York. The CCAC is a partnership uniting Governments, inter-governmental organisations, civil society and the private sector in the first global effort to address short-lived climate pollutants as an urgent and collective challenge, in ways that protect the environment and public health.
The GSD says it cautiously welcomes the Government and Unite’s “solution” to the ongoing issue affecting contract workers in the GHA, although it repeats that it is shameful that it took such pressure from Opposition and the employees themselves to bring about this change and there are “still many questions left unanswered.”
Saturday saw the biggest Clean Up the World campaign yet, with approximately 500 volunteers taking part. Over twenty sites were picked clean, including green areas, coastal sites and even underwater cleaning. Teams made up of Bayside and Westside Comprehensive School students tackled diseased and ‘non-endemic vegetation along Europa Advance Road’ as part of Gibraltar’s World Heritage Bid.