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.
With only half of the current operation complete, the teams recorded in excess of 1200kg of rubbish, including broken glasses, straws, restaurant chairs, plastic menus, cigarette butts and various other assorted plastics being recovered, each piece carefully collected by hand.
The Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, will travel to the United Nations (UN) in New York this weekend ahead of addressing the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation (the C-24) on Monday. He will be accompanied by the Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia.
Justin Hewitt and Craig Galliano will represent Gibraltar at the World Cup of Darts where they shall compete against Daryll Gurney and Brendan Dolan of Northern Ireland.
The Chamber has issued a statement welcoming the announcement that the GHA has reviewed the prices of prescriptions whilst setting a cap on a maximum fee of three items “which will help patients to manage with the current rise in the cost of living.”