European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation José Manuel Albares and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels earlier today.
The seventh and final member of the Vine Trust Gibraltar work party team has returned home from Tanzania. Methodist Minister, Fidel Patron joined the other six work-party volunteers from Gibraltar to help on community projects near Moshi in northern Tanzania. During the two-week long trip the team worked on two schools, which are attended by a large number of orphans, and built a home for a disabled father and his family. As well as lending his support to the construction work, Fidel also opted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro during his trip.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, is to embark on a series of speeches to influential and academic audiences in Spain, as part of a campaign to explain HM Government of Gibraltar’s policy towards Spain.
Mr Picardo is also granting interviews to a series of Media, including Television, Radio and Press.
The Equality Rights Group has today launched a HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in association with events company Omi Palone, and as a lead-up to World Aids Day on 1 December. Throughout the month, a range of posters debunking basic and incorrect information on HIV/AIDS will be distributed ]as a first step in properly informing the public’.
Omi’s CEO River Pinfold and his team coined the idea of designing and distributing awareness posters as a way of leading up to an event called ‘The Red Event’ on Saturday 30th November at Dusk, Ocean Village. As a rights organisation, ERG is very keen to foster and encourage businesses with a social conscience in Gibraltar, and we’re happy to join forces with their team on this important issue.
With Guardia Civil checks at the Frontier once again taking a turn for the worse, queues have been exceptionally long over the past few days. Yesterday afternoon saw a hefty pedestrian queue start to form at around 4pm. During the evening, tailbacks for Motorbikes and cars reached the two hours mark, and this afternoon the RGP has claimed that the estimated queuing time at 2pm was 4 hours.