European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
Following a referendum in which the people of the Falkland Islands voted overwhelmingly to remain British, Gibraltar’s Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo has shown his, and Gibraltar’s, unqualified support for the people of the Islands.
‘It is clear to the whole world that the people of the Falklands have made a powerful and robust statement,’ said Mr Picardo. ‘The outcome of this referendum is proof, if any were needed, of the unanimous desire of this Overseas Territory to remain British.
The Botanical Gardens’ new Natural Learning Centre, which is aimed at providing a safe place for children to learn the joys of planting and caring for plants whilst learning new skills and the importance of looking after our environment, is looking for volunteers to help run further sessions with children.
The Natural Learning Centre is already being used by a weekly children's gardening club. The children are growing edible plants which will be planted into a special bed within the gardens. The public are encouraged to visit the gardens over the next few months and witness the project take shape.
‘We are most concerned following reports that Wendy Cumming, President of the GGCA Union, has been allegedly warned to resign her post on the Executive of the Union following a recent social media comment,’ Equality Rights Group Chairman Felix Alvarez stated in a communiqué today.
The Gibraltar Electricity Authority have apologised for any inconvenience to the public on account of the power outage that occurred on Friday 8th March 2013 affecting 5 districts of consumers. The outage occurred at approximately 00.08 hrs with all consumers having power restored by about 00.11hrs.
The power outage was as the direct result of human error. An operator in GMES power station control room inadvertently shed the load of the generators too quickly as part of the operation of shutting down the engines in the south district power station/s for the night. This action caused the system frequency to drop below 1.5 Hertz for over 50 milliseconds thus activating the falling frequency load shedding protection to be activated.