Mr Speaker,
This is my fifteenth budget debate in this House, my second as a member of the Government.
The GSLP/Liberal Government has now been in office for about a year and a half. We were elected on a platform of change. Our pledge was to transform the way in which Gibraltar was governed and to change it for the better.
Minister for Sport, Steven Linares, has sent the following message of congratulations to Ernest Victory and the Gibraltar Amateur Boxing Association:
The Convent is aware of reports of an incident yesterday evening around 7pm. Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron challenged the unlawful incursion by Guardia Civil vessel Rio Cedena around the Western Beach area and the vessel departed BGTW.
Mr Speaker,
This is my tenth budget session as a member of this Parliament and second budget address as Chief Minister and I now have the honour to present the Government’s revenue and expenditure estimates for the year ending 31st March 2014.
Mr Speaker, this debate on the second reading of the Appropriation Bill has traditionally also been not just about economics, it is also a State of the Nation address touching areas beyond the numbers in the schedule to the Bill.
