The Government says it notes, “with disappointment”, the European Parliament’s objection, today, to the entry into force of the European Commission’s decision to remove certain jurisdictions, including Gibraltar, from the EU’s list of ‘high-risk’ third-countries with strategic deficiencies as regards anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CFT”).
Three males aged between 18-23 and believed to be Moroccan nationals were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning by RGP officers. They were initially spotted aboard a small dinghy within the harbour by Europlaza by Customs marine unit officers.
The Environmental Protection and Research Unit within the Department of the Environment and Climate Change (DECC) has over the past three weeks being carrying out operations targeting illegal spearfishing activities in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW).
The Gibraltar Women’s Association has said that it finds the Minister Licudi’s recent behaviour in parliament “completely unacceptable and not becoming from a gentleman or a minister.”