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.
It was a rare sight with cricket being played in December in Gibraltar. However, despite the cool and blustery easterly wind whipping through the stadium, the pre-Christmas match between the Gibraltar Cricket President’s XI and our visiting guests, the House of Lords and Commons XI took place on Saturday.
The GSD says it is concerned with the outcome of interviews, held some months ago, with the recent announcement that all three competing applicants ended up obtaining the single post advertised of District Nursing Charge Nurse/Sister Manager at the Primary Care Centre, despite this not having been announced beforehand. The GSD argues that this is surprising as due process in the recruitment of GHA managerial personnel appears to have been changed without explanation. The Opposition says this move defies logic as the “goalposts seem to have moved.”
This is the full text of the speech delivered by Sir James Dutton who was sworn in as Governor of Gibraltar earlier today:
When he stood here 7 years ago, Sir Rob Fulton commented in his inaugural address, that he was the first Royal Marines Governor in the long history of Gibraltar: remarkable in many ways, given the very close bonds and linkages between us. Now, only a short time later, you have another Royal Marines Governor – it is sometimes said that you can have too much of a good thing – I hope it is not so in this case.