The Government is planning a number of improvements at the North Front Cemetery.
Last year new benches were placed around the Cemetery and a number of trees were provided as a first step in beautification. A vegetation management plan is now being developed, as well as a number of planting schemes in some areas.
The Government has issued the following statement:
It is incredible that the GSD are still of the opinion that they would have continued with their plans for Dementia Residential Unit at the Royal Naval Hospital site had they remained in Government.
Opposition spokesperson for Social Services, Mrs Isobel Ellul-Hammond, brazenly stated in Parliament during the course of her budget address that the GSD's plans for this place were perfectly acceptable and well within the guidelines and recommendations for NHS registered elderly homes and, had they continued in office, they would have continued with the facility as planned. She says that the single rooms measuring 9.62m2 are an accepted size for the restoration of an existing historical building.
A statement from Unite the Union:
Unite the Union has welcomed this year’s budget announced by Chief Minister Fabian Picardo in Parliament last week.
Unite the Union is fully aware and conscious of the disastrous economic situation that the vast majority of European Countries are going through, because of the strict austerity measures being implemented as a consequence of the present International economic crisis.
The members of the Gibraltar Police Authority (GPA) were recently invited by the Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) Senior Management Team to a presentation where they set out the extent to which the targets set in their Annual Policing Plan for the year ended 31 March 2013 had been met. Having analysed the data contained in the RGP's self-assessment of the Annual Policing Plan the GPA has now, in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 of the Police Act 2006 the Gibraltar Police Authority (GPA), produced its Annual Report for the policing year in review.
