The GSD says it cautiously welcomes the Government and Unite’s “solution” to the ongoing issue affecting contract workers in the GHA, although it repeats that it is shameful that it took such pressure from Opposition and the employees themselves to bring about this change and there are “still many questions left unanswered.”
Saturday saw the biggest Clean Up the World campaign yet, with approximately 500 volunteers taking part. Over twenty sites were picked clean, including green areas, coastal sites and even underwater cleaning. Teams made up of Bayside and Westside Comprehensive School students tackled diseased and ‘non-endemic vegetation along Europa Advance Road’ as part of Gibraltar’s World Heritage Bid.
The local man being sought by police over the seizure of 30 kilos of Cannabis Resin on the 19th September has now been arrested.
The Minister the Environment, Dr John Cortes, and the Chief Executive for the Department of the Environment, Dr Liesl Mesilio -Torres, have been invited by the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki- Moon to attend the United Nations Climate Summit to be held at the UN Headquarters in New York today.
