Apr 29 - Unite the Union May Day Message
Celebrating Workers Day, as it does every year, the Gibraltar branch of Unite the Union has marked the ‘special date’ to commemorate the struggle of workers all over the world. Victor Ochello, Regional Officer for the Unite Branch commented that this May Day marks the Union’s achievement of accomplishing last year’s commitment to consolidate and re activate the Gibraltar Trades Council.
Commenting of the speaker’s to be addressing the public on Wednesday’s rally in Casemates Square, Mr. Ochello noted that Manuel Cortes a born Gibraltarian who has managed to break his way through in the United Kingdom as the General Secretary of a U.K union, will speak.
British Forces Gibraltar’s Joint Policing and Security Unit (JPSU) have been awarded a Commendation by Commander Joint Forces Command Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach in recognition of their cohesive and focused team effort to deliver effective support to military operations in Gibraltar.
The present series of museum lectures, on the history of Gibraltar, opens on Tuesday 30th April at 7pm at the John Mackintosh Hall. The series explores the history of Gibraltar in five parts.
The Progressive Democratic Party has welcomed the departure of the proposed Kalmar floating hostel, which left Gibraltar in Friday. The party insists that it was clear that the project, aimed at accommodating long term residents of Moroccan orgin, ‘ had not been thought through properly by the GSLP/Liberal Government, resulting in the wasteful expense of bringing the vessel to Gibraltar’.
