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.
Gibraltar’s Commonwealth Games Squad was finally named at the weekend with27 Athletes across 9 sporting events set to compete in the 20th edition of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, later this month.
The team is made up of a real blend of youth and experience, with few competing for the first time. Gibraltar will five swimmers this time around, including Games veteran Colin Bensadon, who will lead the swim team, which is made up of Jim Sanderson who competed last time in Delhi, and debutants Jordan Gonzalez, Christina Linares and Karl Pardo.
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo,. left Gibraltar today to attend meetings of Premiers of the UK Overseas Territories in the Cayman Islands. The different leaders have been convened to discuss the agenda of the Joint Ministerial Council to be held in December in London.
The National Archives of Gibraltar has launched its new website application. This is part of the long-term digitisation policy of the Government which will see the ever increasing storage of historical records in electronic form.
The GSD has today claimed that the Government's attempts to obfuscate the issue surrounding the cost of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on one fraud trial, by trying to professionally embarrass a member of the Opposition, is simply not going to work. The party insists that there is ‘no professional embarrassment to speak of however much the Government might try to suggest otherwise’.