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.
Yesterday evening, His Worship the Mayor hosted the Rotary Club’s weekly meeting at the City Hall. As an honorary member of the Club, Mayor Tony Lima insisted that this meeting gave him an opportunity to host the club and open his doors to them.
His Worship continued by explaining his background in the Civil service briefly, and then went on to outline the history of Mayoralty. The Mayor was presented with a honorary Rotary Club tie.
Yesterday evening the Gibraltar Heritage Trust held their annual painting competition. This year’s theme centered around the Grand Battery. His Excellency the Governor presented the awards during a ceremony held at the John Mackintosh Hall, where all entries will be exhibited between the 12th and 14th of June.
Within the Children’s category highly commended awards were presented to Aaron Brier, Maya Breeze, Cadie Pedder and Alba Narvaez Carseni. Third prize was awarded to Christina Daswani Hurtado, and first and second prizes were presented to Lauren Birt and Abigael Bellingan.
Marlene Hassan-Nahon, the GSD’s candidate for the by-election, signed on at Parliament this morning. She was accompanied by GSD Members of Parliament and her election agent Elliott Phillips.
Ms Nahon was officially announced as a candidate last week at the GSD headquarters and is running for the seat vacated after the death of GSLP Minister Charles Bruzon.
Businessman and active social media figure Bryan Zammit signed on as an independent candidate for July’s by-election this morning at the Gibraltar Parliament. Mr Zammit says the main thrust of his campaign would be to “bring an end to party politics.”
He payed his respects to the late Charles Bruzon but said that, however tragic the reasons behind the by-election, it was really the “only chance” for an independent candidate to get into Parliament saying that a vote for the parties already represented would amount to a “wasted vote.”