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.
The Leader of the GSD, Daniel Feetham, has today condemned the scenes at Algeciras yesterday, which prevented the Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, from delivering a speech to students at the University of Cadiz.
Commenting on the matter Mr. Feetham said, ‘any one that loves democracy and upholds freedom of speech would have been appalled by the way that the Chief Minister had to cancel his address to students yesterday. In politics it is normal to have differences of opinion, either domestically or between different countries, but it is always imperative that as democrats we defend the right of political opponents and those with different views to be able to express those views’.
In the early hours of this morning, the lifeless body of an unidentified man was found on the shoreline of Sandy Bay, along with a number of bales of Cannabis Resin. The RGP are currently carrying out an investigation that will seek to establish whether there is a connection between the man and the drugs as well as the circumstances surrounding the death of the man. A Cororner’s investigation is also underway.
In a joint statement issued yesterday, 36 jurisdictions including Gibraltar committed themselves to early adoption of the Common Reporting Standard for automatic exchange of information being developed in the OECD.
‘Tax evasion is a global problem and requires a global solution, removing the hiding places for those who would seek to evade their legal obligations,” says the statement by the 36 countries and territories who pledge to “strongly support the development of the single global standard for automatic exchange of information between tax authorities’.