British Forces Gibraltar’s Joint Policing and Security Unit (JPSU) have been awarded a Commendation by Commander Joint Forces Command Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach in recognition of their cohesive and focused team effort to deliver effective support to military operations in Gibraltar.
The present series of museum lectures, on the history of Gibraltar, opens on Tuesday 30th April at 7pm at the John Mackintosh Hall. The series explores the history of Gibraltar in five parts.
The first lecture will be given by Professor Clive Finlayson with the title “The History of Gibraltar in Five Parts: Part One – History of a Beacon”. Professor Finlayson will take listeners through a journey in time, exploring the attraction that the Rock of Gibraltar has had to people through the ages. From Neanderthals, through the classical period and the Pillars of Hercules, past Jbel Tarik the talk will consider the impact of the Rock in defining an identity, culminating with the way in which Gibraltarians related to the Rock during the evacuation, the closed frontier years and today.
The Progressive Democratic Party has welcomed the departure of the proposed Kalmar floating hostel, which left Gibraltar in Friday. The party insists that it was clear that the project, aimed at accommodating long term residents of Moroccan orgin, ‘ had not been thought through properly by the GSLP/Liberal Government, resulting in the wasteful expense of bringing the vessel to Gibraltar’.
The PDP are delighted that the Government have listened to the party’s concerns and taken the correct measure to send the floating hostel back to Rotterdam.
Commenting on the recent statement made by Dr. Tydeman to the UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, The Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society have claimed that the Gibraltarian public hold the same opinion that British Government ‘values good relations with Spain far more than it does the interests of Gibraltar’. The Society insists that this view, held also by Dr. Tydeman, should not come across as controversial, locally. They go on to say that the Royal Navy’s inaction in adequately protecting local fisheries is difficult to explain in any other context, given that the Navy actually includes a ‘Fishery Protection Squadron’ that operates in UK waters and British waters around the Falklands.
‘The Royal Navy itself states that the primary task of the squadron “is its involvement in the highly emotive and politically sensitive UK and European fishing industry.”’
