This year there will be no balloon release on National Day. The cancellation of the annual release of thousands of balloons was confirmed by the Self Determination for Gibraltar Group (SDGG) this morning.
The Association of Retired Police Officers (ARPO) held their Annual General Meeting at the IPA club on Monday evening. The meeting was well attended despite the inclement weather.
The GSD says that the Government “have twisted the words of the Opposition” adding that this is “not astonishing but actually predictable.”
The Governments of Gibraltar and of the Falkland Islands have reacted to the meeting and joint press conference that took place in Buenos Aires yesterday between the Foreign Minister of Argentina Susana Malcorra and the Caretaker Foreign Minister of Spain Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo and issued a joint statement arguing that the wishes of the people of both territories “must be paramount.”
