The Government has announced a Cabinet reshuffle that will see Acting Housing Minister Paul Balban take over the role as Minister for Housing, with responsibility for the Housing Works Agency.
Minister Balban continues to retain his existing responsibilities, except Health and Safety, which has been passéd on to Minister Bossano.
As part of the GSD’s continuous Outreach Programme of visiting estates and meeting with associations, GSD MPs visited Varyl Begg Estate social club and met with around 30 constituents on Friday evening.
Daniel Feetham, Leader of the Opposition, who grew up in the estate, was delighted to go back to his roots and to engage with the tenants. Commenting on the visit, he said, ‘I would like to thank those who run the social club for their warm welcome and to all those who met with us for a drink.’
The Governor’s Office has insisted today that comments made by Dr. Chris Tydeman in his evidence to the UK’s House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee ‘do not accurately reflect either the Governor’s Constitutional role or his public position on sovereign issues’.
A statement insists that the UK does not recognise Spain’s SCI listing nor its attempt to designate an SAC. This position has been made clear to the Spanish Government and was even highlighted during the Foreign Secretary’s statement to Parliament on December 10th 2012.
The Gibraltar Museum has announced a series of forthcoming lectures for 2013. The series is entitled ‘The History of Gibraltar in Five Parts’ and will see a number of speakers explore multiple interlinked facets of the Rock’s varied past, which together have helped to create the Gibraltar of today.
The series opens on Tuesday 30th April, at 7pm, at the John Mackintosh Hall with Professor Clive Finlayson’s part 1, ‘History of a Beacon’.
