The Ministry of Transport has announced that it has worked together with local transport company Citibus to assist them in replacing and registering a number of its ageing buses with newer and more environmentally friendly vehicles.
University Royal Navy Units from Belfast have visited the University of Gibraltar.
His Excellency the Governor, Lieutenant General Sir Ben Bathurst, and the Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, co-chaired a meeting of The Gibraltar Contingency Council (GCC) today. The Deputy Chief Minister, the Hon Dr Joseph Garcia, and the Minister for Civil Contingencies, Leslie Bruzon, also attended the meeting. This was the Governor’s first meeting of the GCC since arriving in June of this year.
Gibraltar Health Authority has launched an awareness campaign to highlight the importance of staff being ‘bare below the elbows’ in clinical areas as part of basic infection control practices. In such surroundings, healthcare workers should abstain from wearing watches, jewellery or long sleeved clothing below the elbows and have short unvarnished nails. This is because harmful bacteria and viruses can remain in jewellery or under fingernails even after careful hand washing.
