On Saturday night at 9 pm Spark Energy North Mole Power Plant tripped due to a short circuit failure causing a major power cut, the reason of which is unknown and is being investigated separately by Spark Energy Limited and Gibraltar Electricity Authority.
We spoke to the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo straight after his annual address to the UN's Special Committee on Decolonisation
YGTV: Your speech was dedicated to the generation of Gibraltarians that was evacuated during the Second World War – what role does the Evacuation play in our narrative of self-determination and in our emergence as a people?
Fabian Picardo: Everything we have today we owe principally to the Evacuation generation – they’re the ones that fought to return to Gibraltar and became politically conscious. Sir Joshua Hassan is talked of as the person who galvanized people to bring back the evacuees but all of that leads to today and to the determination that we have that the Rock is our own and nobody is going to take it from us. The Evacuation generation had to start from scratch after 250 years of being in Gibraltar and the work they did – these are in many cases our parents and grandparents - delivered to us the Gibraltar we enjoy today. This is the Gibraltar I can come to the UN to proudly represent ready to assert its unalienable right to self-determination.
Calentita Night will take place on Saturday night, and this year’s event will see and Gibraltar Cultural Services together with Word of Mouth are aiming to provide a very entertaining programme for this year’s gastronomy festival.
Immediately upon his return to Gibraltar this afternoon, the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, has written to the Chairman of the Committee of 24 to follow up the events of the session yesterday in New York.
