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.
The Government has this afternoon announced that it is increasing the powers available to officers of the HM Customs and the Royal Gibraltar Police to combat anti-social behaviour linked to the trade in tobacco.
With beach appropriate weather officially settled in, Tourism Minister Neil Costa this morning outlined the first phase of this year’s beach initiative. New features already installed at Eastern Beach, Western Beach and Catalan Bay are concrete walkways that mirror former wooden paths leading onto the sand. Suyenne Perez Catania Senior Manager for Products at the Tourist board insisted that these would not give beach users splinters and would avoid being vandalised, with one slab weighing 450 kilos. Improvements further included re-designed and recently implemented walkways, for easier access onto the sand.
The GSD Opposition has welcomed the comments made by the Young Members’ Committee of Unite the Union calling for the revival of the apprenticeships programmes and a return to the trade and partnership agreements with the private sector. The GSD Opposition says it is well known that it has expressed serious concern at the lack of good quality or any training, which is currently being provided and has been sharply critical of the abandonment of the partnership agreements, which it had negotiated when in Government with some of the major companies in the private sector.