June 13 - Drug Convictions By HM Customs
In two separate incidents, HM Customs successfully prosecuted two men for possession and importation of class B drugs.
Juan Manuel Ordonez Sanchez, a 33 year old resident of La Linea, was arrested on May 22nd and charged with possession and importation of 18g of cannabis resin and 0.4g of herbal cannabis across the land frontier. After failing to appear before the magistrate, he was arrested on the strength of a court warrant at the land frontier on June 8th.Ordonez received a £300 penalty for the offences.
The Government has now carefully considered the views put to it by the Development and Planning Commission in relation to the proposed reclamation in Marina Bay which was originally proposed as a car park for the Sunborn Hotel project.
The Gibraltar H20 Linamar spearfishing team this week won the III Quedada Pescasub Puerto De La Alcaidesa competition, held in La Linea last weekend.
Dr Geraldine Finlayson will be giving the third of the current Museum Lecture Series. The theme will revolve around Gibraltar as a port. The strategic geographical location of Gibraltar, between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and straddling two continents, has attracted maritime activity since its very origins. Dr Finlayson will show how recent research is indicating that eastern Mediterranean mariners may have been reaching the Strait as far back as 3,500 years ago. These may have been pioneering incursions by early Greeks that were consolidated later by the colonisation of the area by Phoenicians and Carthaginians. Dr Finlayson will trace the locations of the early ports associated with Gibraltar.
