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.
Today marked the last working day in the Chief Minister’s Brussels Trip. The Gibraltar delegation have had over 20 meetings in the space of 48 hours, a tightly packed schedule which included working lunches and dinners since they arrived. The Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia said that the recent trips to Brussels by concerned citizens had really made an impact and gave the Commission a different view point.
Following their decision to scale back operations in Gibraltar, and to close their Main Street branch later this year, Barclays has today announced that they will delay issuing notices of account closure until September 2014, when the Government has pledged to open the doors of the Gibraltar National Bank.
The response by the Minister for Health to the criticism of blatant cronyism in the appointment of so many GSLP activists to the GHA Complaints Panel is just another example of how this so called ‘New Dawn’ Government has paid lip service to its transparency agenda as if they never stood on the “time for change” ticket at the last election, claims the Opposition.