Gibraltar’s representation at the Labour Party Conference continued yesterday evening with the Gibraltar Reception hosted by the Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and featuring a keynote speech by the UK Minister for Europe and the Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty MP.
Over 120 delegates from sectors across Gibraltar returned to school at the Sunborn on 15th July for a professional development event and drinks reception designed to help attendees stay abreast of the many regulatory and legislative developments taking place over the course of 2014.
Gibraltar Finance is currently attending and exhibiting at The Insurance Conference Southern Africa 2014 (ICSA) in Sun City, South Africa, from Sunday 27th July to Wednesday 30th July.
This is the first time that Gibraltar Finance has attended the conference, one of the largest gatherings of insurance professionals in Southern Africa. In 2013 the conference had over 1,000 attendees representing 302 organisations from 23 countries.
Saturday kicked off the third day of the 20th Commonwealth Games competition, with Team Gibraltar participating once more in swimming and squash, as well as shooting.
Shooters Jonathan Patron and Louis Baglietto participated in the 10m Air Pistol event, registering a 555 to finish in 20th place and a 546 to finish at 23rd.
The new website of the Gibraltar National Archives has logged over two thousand hits from 10 countries in its first week of operation.The website (www.nationalarchives.gi) allows users to search the lists and registers of population of Gibraltar from 1777 to 1914. It also includes a list of people who remained in Gibraltar after it was captured in 1704. This searchable material has proved to be a very popular feature.