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.
Ahead of his journey to London to represent the Gibraltar Ambulance Service at the Remembrance Day Ceremony in London on Sunday, Sigurd Haveland has been given the new Ambulance Service number one prototype uniform.
Two drama practitioners from the famous Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre have this week visited Gibraltar to carry out workshops with students from both Bayside and Westside Schools. Sponsored by the Kusuma Trust. The visit took place from the 4th to the 8th of November and saw the students explore issues of Shakespearean stagecraft and genre, while also working on specific plays.
In response to the Government’s latest statement on Credit Finance Company Ltd, a GSD statement has today noted that ‘it is so absurd, that it only needs to be stated to be rejected outright. Credit Finance Co Limited is not a bank nor is it managed at arms length from the Government. The Moneylenders Act creates a licensing regime in respect of money lending where the licensing authority is the Chief Minister himself and Credit Finance Co Limited is not regulated by the FSC or any independent regulator.
Shortly after midnight yesterday evening, RGP officers arrested a local man on suspicion of being in possession of a commercial quantity of tobacco, dangerous driving and for failing to stop when signalled by a police officer.