The Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) investigation into the allegation that ‘whistle-blowers’ were incentivised to provide evidence to the McGrail Inquiry “has not uncovered any evidence that meets the threshold for criminal prosecution for Misconduct in Public Office.”
Saturday saw the biggest Clean Up the World campaign yet, with approximately 500 volunteers taking part. Over twenty sites were picked clean, including green areas, coastal sites and even underwater cleaning. Teams made up of Bayside and Westside Comprehensive School students tackled diseased and ‘non-endemic vegetation along Europa Advance Road’ as part of Gibraltar’s World Heritage Bid.
The Minister the Environment, Dr John Cortes, and the Chief Executive for the Department of the Environment, Dr Liesl Mesilio -Torres, have been invited by the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki- Moon to attend the United Nations Climate Summit to be held at the UN Headquarters in New York today.
Gibraltar was recently represented by Mr. Ian Leyde, of Gibraltar House, London at the Merchant Navy Memorial Day in Liverpool. A service, attended by representatives of People's Republic of China, India, the Netherlands and Canada paid respect to the 60,000 Merchant Navy sailors who died during World War II. Liverpool was the main base for the Battle of the Atlantic, in which 36,000 merchant seamen died.