Apr 25 European Association of Airport and Seaport Police
The European Association of Airport and Seaport Police have held their 40th annual conference at the Caleta Hotel this week, hosted by the Royal Gibraltar Police.
The association’s general meeting has also taken place during the session in Gibraltar. On the agenda were elections to the Executive Committee of the association. A number of vacancies arose this year including that of president, a role fulfilled for the past five years by retired Assistant Chief Constable Mr John Donlon, former Coordinator of Ports Policing, in the United Kingdom.
The Government has reconvened the Noise Core Steering Group for the first time since it first met in 2008. The Steering Group, chaired by the Minister for the Environment, Dr John Cortes, with the Minister for Public Transport, Neil Costa and the Minister for Traffic, Paul Balban, is made up of Government Officials and representatives of the Environment Agency. It was set up in order to drive the requirements of the Environmental (Assessment & Management of Noise) Regulations 2006, but had become defunct in 2008. These Regulations gave effect in Gibraltar to the European Directive relating to the assessment and management of environmental noise.
Winner of the Convent Garden Design competition, A Level art student, Nico Palacios was yesterday invited to the Convent, where he was congratulated by Governor Sir Adrian Johns for his winning design, which will be reproduced by Convent Gardeners.
The Government has welcomed the announcement by Thomson Cruises and Island Cruises that their calls to Gibraltar for the winter 2013 and summer 2014 programme have increased by 33%.
