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.
Commenting on this morning’s power cut, which the Government has insisted stems from a fault in stability in the network, the GSD Opposition today said that the outages ‘are a serious problem not just for the quality of life of all residents in Gibraltar but also for the business community’.
The Government has said that the most recent in a series of post-Budget advertisements placed by the GSD in the Gibraltar Chronicle demonstrates that Mr Feetham “has not listened or had regard to any of the information provided to him in Parliament.”
The Government has stressed that, in view of the recent power outages, the latest of which was this morning, the issue is “one of stability in the network and not of generating capacity.” Gibraltar has, it says, “over capacity thanks to the generators that were brought in recently by the Government.”