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.
For May’s session of Parliament, Opposition Spokesman for Health, Isobel Ellul-Hammond, will be asking the Minister for Health, Dr Cortes, to explain the equipment, care pathway and training for upper body lymphoedema treatments to breast cancer sufferers and survivors. Further questions will include when the hydrotherapy pool at St Bernard’s Hospital will be opened for those who need it; what the contingency is when an emergency ambulance is called and they are otherwise engaged and unable to attend; whether the plastic surgery initiative will continue at Xanit Hospital and what the system is for a patient seen at A&E, and then found needing secondary care or further tests, but not necessarily immediately.
H.M. Government of Gibraltar is pleased to announce the commencement of the external refurbishment of Kingsway House as part of the refurbishment programme of Alameda Estate.
The works will consists of minor repairs to the external building fabric, the rerendering and waterproofing of the external elevation and the replacement of the waterproofing covering to the roof terraces which will eliminate the current problems of water penetration being experienced by some tenants.
The Minister for Health & the Environment, Dr John Cortes, has announced the Donation of an Ambulance to the Municipality of Oued Laou a coastal village close to Tetuan, Morocco. The donation has come about as a result of a request for assistance by the head of the village council Mayor Mohamed Melahi.
The Ambulance will be handed over to the village’s local representative in Gibraltar Mr Abel Suisi and Mr Mohamed Bentaleb. Oued Laou is situated in the Moroccan Mediterranean Coast approximately 45km south west of Tetuan. This village has a population of just over 8,400 people and its main activities are fishing and tourism.
Type 23 frigate HMS Monmouth also known as the ‘Black Duke’ arrives in Gibraltar tomorrow following a seven month deployment to the Middle East as part of the continuous British presence in the region protecting shipping, preventing smuggling and acting to disrupt and deter piracy.
She will spend a few days here taking the opportunity to stock up on supplies and have some much needed down time before heading home to Plymouth.
Monmouth is the sixth of the Type 23 frigates and was launched by Lady Eaton in 1991 and commissioned two years later.
For May’s session of Parliament, Opposition Spokesman for Health, Isobel Ellul-Hammond, will be asking the Minister for Health, Dr Cortes, to explain the equipment, care pathway and training for upper body lymphoedema treatments to breast cancer sufferers and survivors. Further questions will include when the hydrotherapy pool at St Bernard’s Hospital will be opened for those who need it; what the contingency is when an emergency ambulance is called and they are otherwise engaged and unable to attend; whether the plastic surgery initiative will continue at Xanit Hospital and what the system is for a patient seen at A&E, and then found needing secondary care or further tests, but not necessarily immediately.
H.M. Government of Gibraltar is pleased to announce the commencement of the external refurbishment of Kingsway House as part of the refurbishment programme of Alameda Estate.
Type 23 frigate HMS Monmouth also known as the ‘Black Duke’ arrives in Gibraltar tomorrow following a seven month deployment to the Middle East as part of the continuous British presence in the region protecting shipping, preventing smuggling and acting to disrupt and deter piracy.
