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Even during these unprecedented times and amongst obvious disruptions to our community, the machinery of Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar demonstrates its resilience and continues to function as normal as reasonably practicable across many of its sectors. The Gibraltar Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) has two new appointments within the…

Gibraltar Cultural Services is holding two competitions, an Art competition and a Short Story competition, for children and young people aged from School Years 3 to 13. The competitions will be held fortnightly until the social lockdown is lifted. This initative is aimed at those young people who are either…

The residents of the pensioner block Bishop Canilla House have donated £550 to the GHA account for the fight against the Coronavirus, COVID-19. Minister Linares has personally thanked Chairperson Esperanza Flower for the support and would publicly like to thank the tenants for their solidarity and generosity during this time…

Following the strong easterly winds last week, there was considerable damage at Camp Bay, which has now been cleared by the Department and Britannia. One significant area of work was that carried out at Western Beach and the adjacent car park that had been covered with the invasive alga also…

The Department of Education is now in the second week of its Primary home learning programme and in its first week of rolling out a similar programme at Secondary level.   Children in all of our 11 Primary schools together with students in the secondary sector, have access to a…

The Cruise Liner “Star Flyer” is planning to carry out a technical call at Gibraltar on the 8th April 2020. In line with HM Government of Gibraltar’s decision to suspend cruise liner visits to Gibraltar during the current COVID crisis, it must be pointed out that this is not a…

The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo QC, has today written to Her Majesty The Queen following her televised address last night to the British People and to the whole of the UK family.  This address was watched by over 24 million people in UK and was also broadcast live…

Following the election of Sir Kier Starmer as leader of the Labour Party, the Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo said, “I have today written to my old friend Sir Kier Starmer QC, who I have known since we were both young lawyers, to congratulate him on becoming leader of…

The Housing Department has received confirmation from the GHA that one of the residents at Albert Risso House has tested positive for Covid-19. The resident is currently in isolation at home at will be monitored closely by medical staff. How the tenant has contracted the virus is currently being investigated,…

HM Government of Gibraltar would like to thank the Moroccan Community Association for their kind donation of £3,400 for the provision of medical equipment to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the Moroccan Community Association also donated soft drinks and other foodstuffs to the Covid-19 Response Teams working in the background…