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.
As part of her fundraising efforts in preparation for the Miss World pageant, Miss Gibraltar 2014 Shyanne Azzopardi today received a cheque for £500 from GM International Homes. The donation follows a skydive Shyanne carried out last month.
Thirty of Gibraltar’s macaques will next week be flown to the UK to a safari park in Scotland, as part of the Government’s ongoing Barbary Macaque Management Programme. Detailing the mission this morning at a press conference, Environment Minister Dr. John Cortes explained that monkeys from the Middle Hill troop, which frequents urban areas most in Gibraltar, will be relocated to a new home at Blair Drummond Wildlife Park in Stirling, Scotland.
In a back and fourth between the GSD and Government over power issues in Gibraltar, the Government has shut down comments made by the Opposition, insisting that the previous administration failed to address the issue in depth from 1996, until 2011.