The delays generated at the border over the course of this weekend have been the source of deep concern. Thousands have suffered serious inconvenience and worse in the sweltering weather. The Governor visited the border at the peak time on Saturday afternoon and saw for himself the conditions under which people were having to endure the delays.
Whilst international reports on this weekend’s frontier queues surface around the world, the Sunborn Gibraltar also seems to be making its rounds in worldwide media. Late last week, leading US news channel CNN ran a story similar to a recent feature in the Times, detailing the features of the luxury ‘$200 million Sunborn Yacht Hotel, a permanently moored vessel which could spell the future of architecture in land scarce cities around the world’.
A statement from the GSD:
The GSD Opposition condemns the inhumane and unprecedented seven hour queues at the frontier over the weekend. The GSD would also like to thank all the essential services and members of the public who have been helping people stuck in these queues.
Following a weekend of intense frontier queues and questionable treatment of Gibraltarians and Spanish residents alike, the Foreign Secretary William Hague has insisted that he has spoken to Spanish Foreign Minister Margallo ‘to raise [their] concerns about restrictions at [the] Spanish-Gibraltar border.’
The BBC today relays Chief Minister Fabian Picardo’s message that Spain was using bullying tactics in response to work carried out in the bay last week, to lay an artificial reef that will not allow Spanish fishing trawlers to rake the seabed.
