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.
This afternoon, the Chief Minister, accompanied by Mrs Picardo, will leave the Rock for Morocco. The Chief Minister will visit the Royal Gibraltar Regiment which is currently on Exercise Jebel Sahara on a training area close to the city of Marrakech.
Her Majesty The Queen has approved that Sunday 10th November will be observed as Remembrance Sunday. This year, as last year, the Ceremony of Remembrance will be held at the British War Memorial on Line Wall Road, opposite City Hall, at noon.
Following a week of controversy and speculation the Government have this evening published three tables of information detailing the Gibraltar Savings Bank’s investments and the total value of Savings Bank Debentures. The information was published as a response to Opposition leader Daniel Feetham’s Parliament question on GSB debentures and ‘other debt security outstanding’. The question focused on how much was and is held by residents and non-residents of Gibraltar, companies or partnerships and individuals.
Speaking in the house of Lords today on Wednesday’s incident involving a collision between Guardia Civil vessel Rio Tormes and a Gibraltar Defence police boat in BGTW, Conservative peer Baroness Hooper claimed that ‘guns were pointed at each other’ during the incident, although no shots were fired.