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.
A Madrid-based British journalist described the Chief Minister and the Spanish Foreign Minister as having been engaged in “megaphone diplomacy” over the summer. William Chislett, who delivered a talk during this weekend’s Literary Festival entitled “Spain: What You Need To Know” was responding to a question from the audience. He also said that, in his opinion, the problem that Gibraltar represented for Spain would “never be resolved.”
A conference which has been organised by The Gibraltar Hearing Impaired and Tinnitus Association and which is supported by the Ministry of Equality, Social Services and the Elderly will take place on Wednesday 30th October at John Mackintosh Hall from 9.30am to 1.30pm.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice to signal the end of World War One “the War to end all Wars”, on the 11th November 1918.
The Gibraltar Amateur Drama Association will be staging their new play, "Bang Bang Beirut", by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton, as part of the Autumn Festival. Performance days will be Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st October and Saturday 1st November.
Commenting on the performance, a GADA spokesperson noted, ‘again GADA is sticking to their tried and tested formula of offering its audience its usual hilarious evening with this play. An outrageously funny farce set in the lobby and courtyard of a small hotel in the Middle East, where a group of British undercover agents (in a variety of unlikely disguises) are trying to weather a local military coup, while devising a plan to smuggle a young native prince out of danger.