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 Gibraltar Interpol bureau operated for the Royal Gibraltar Police at the Gibraltar Coordinating Centre for Criminal Intelligence and Drugs has this week hosted a revitalisation visit. Gibraltar has hosted two officers from Interpol’s National Central Bureau Coordination Sub-Directorate for Europe based at the Interpol General Secretariat in Lyon and also an officer from Interpol UK.
The Government has approved for publication the transposition of the so- called CRD IV package which transposes, via a Regulation and a Directive, the new global standards on bank capital (the Basel III agreement).
The European Citizens Action Service (ECAS) has been invited by the European Commission to provide additional comments on the delays at the land frontier between Gibraltar and Spain by 6th January 2014.
In an update provided by the RGP, the rock fall was discovered yesterday evening at approximately 7:45 pm. The fairly minor fall caused no damage or injuries.