The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, says that the public should explicitly note the lack of any intervention from the Leader of the Opposition during the course of the Committee Stage and Third Reading of the Budget debate. This is the stage of the debate in Parliament when every member has the chance to scrutinise every penny of Government spending.
The Government has today released an expert assessment of the Lloyd’s Register reports published by the GSD, which, as has been revealed by them cost £100,000.00 and was paid for by Spark, who submitted failed bids for the supply of gas contract and for a power station, and the company providing the rented generation plant at the time of the recent power cuts and in which the outages originated.
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, has been awarded damages of £30,000 against the Spanish right wing union "Manos Limpias" and its leader, Sñr Miguel Bernard Remon.