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The Minister for Business, Tourism, Transport and the Port, the Hon Vijay Daryanani MP held a meeting in Gibraltar with Mr Matt Grimes, Vice President of Maritime Operations for Viking and the Chairman of Viking Mr Torstein Hagen. The meeting took place on board the Viking Venus, Viking’s newest ocean…

Mr Speaker, before I start, I should just confirm to the House that I have certified this Bill as urgent and as one that should be dealt with before the expiry of six weeks since its first publication. The reason for that is to ensure that our referendum law is…

Speaker, Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar and the People of Gibraltar were greatly saddened on the 9th of April to hear the news of the death of His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip had always had an interest in Gibraltar. He visited in November…

EasyJet have announced an increase in flights to Gibraltar for this summer over those originally planned. The airline has added extra rotations to existing routes from London Gatwick, Bristol, Manchester and has brought forward the start of flights from Edinburgh to 5th June. The Minister for Business, Tourism, Transport and…

Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar greatly welcomes the announcement at the Downing Street press conference today by the Secretary of State for Transport, Rt Hon Grant Shapps, MP, that Gibraltar is on the “green list” for travel to and from the United Kingdom as from 17th May. The Minister for…

The Housing Department has today, Thursday 6th May 2021, issued a notice on the increase of rent on Government flats. Rent will be increased by 3% with effect from 1st July 2021. The new rent will be contained in the bill that tenants will receive in mid-July. In June 2017,…

The Gibraltar Electricity Authority (GEA) has terminated its contract with Bolaños Mechanical Engineering Company (Bolaños) as the community now enjoys an independent source of power with the capacity and infrastructure at the new LNG Power Station to fully power Gibraltar, with the appropriate back up and resilience measures being developed….

Minister for Environment and Climate Change John Cortes last week chaired the virtual meeting of the UK Overseas Territories’ and Crown Dependencies’ Environmental Ministers’ Council.  The Council, which first met in Gibraltar in 2015, is made up of Ministers or their equivalents from all the inhabited OTs and CDs.  This…

An Open Day will be held at the Gibraltar Exhibition of Modern Art Gallery (GEMA) to present a new exhibition to the public. The Open Day is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 9th June from 11am to 3pm. To allow preparations for the Open Day to proceed, Gibraltar Cultural…

After the successful night of boxing at the Europa Sports Park on Saturday 27th March, the Gibraltar Sports and Leisure Authority recently carried out a draw to select the winner of the “Rumble on the Rock” Dillian Whyte and Alexander Povetkin signed boxing gloves. The draw for the signed gloves…