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The Department of Education has circulated to all schools Public Health guidelines for educational settings in Gibraltar. These include information on groups who are vulnerable to COVID-19. Generally, this virus can cause more severe symptoms in people with a weakened immune system (such as those suffering from cancer, or are…

The Government’s COVID-19 Co-ordinating Group has been meeting for 7 weeks now to plan, prepare and protect Gibraltar from the spread of the virus. Today, the Chief Minister chaired a meeting of this group for the second time. The Government is confident that Gibraltar is as ready as possible for…

Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar has noted the photograph of Gibraltar’s religious leaders over the Holocaust Memorial that stands at Commonwealth Park, presenting their position in favour of the ‘NO’ campaign in the abortion referendum. The Government considers that the photograph is badly ill-judged in seeking to mobilise the horrific…

Earlier today, the GHA confirmed that a person in Gibraltar has been identified as having the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This person and their partner (who has had no symptoms) are a young couple. When they returned from Northern Italy, neither the person nor their partner had any symptoms…

The Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia has told the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland, that Gibraltar is committed to the values of the Commonwealth and aims to develop further existing bonds with the organisation. This came about at a meeting this morning in Marlborough House, London,…

Minister John Cortes, in his capacity as Minister for Heritage attended a wreath laying ceremony in Chiclana on Monday. The ceremony was in honour of those who died in the Battle of La Barrosa on 5th March 1811 during the Peninsular War. At the battle, a joint British and Spanish…

Celine Azopardi is the recipient of this year’s GCS GAMPA Scholarship Award. This award was created to recognise specific skills and attributes in young people and to help in their cultural development. To this end the shortlisted individuals were required to carry out a presentation, to tell their story and…

Gibraltar will be sending a delegation to Rwanda in June to participate in events around the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit in the capital Kigali. This was confirmed by the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, also the Minister for relations with the Commonwealth, who is in London today for…

The GHA can confirm that a person in Gibraltar has been identified as having the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The patient and their partner, who have recently returned from Northern Italy via Malaga airport, are currently self-isolating. The GHA cannot reveal any further details to protect patient confidentiality except…

HM Government of Gibraltar is continuing to follow the best advice of Public Health professionals to prevent and lessen the spread of infections. Gibraltar is planning for the worst-case scenario, which we don’t believe will happen, but we must be ready in case it does. To date, there are no…

Minster for Justice and Equality, Samantha Sacramento, commenced a consultation process on relationship breakdown following public concerns of parental alienation in some cases. Since the consultation process began in January this year, Minster Sacramento and her team, a panel from the Ministry of Equality have seen almost 50 individuals who…

Minister for Justice and Equality, Samantha Sacramento MP, recently hosted an event for women lawyers, ahead of International Women’s Day, and to mark a centenary of women in the law. The event was generously sponsored by Mrs Donna Seruya Sackman. The evening was opened by the Minister for Justice and…

Year 2 pupils at Governor’s Meadow Lower Primary School were recently given an educational presentation by Brian Gomila from Monkey Talks. Pupils learned about our local Barbary Macaques, their habitat and diet. What really captured pupils’ interest was finding out about the ways our Barbary macaques interact and communicate not…

Reception Pupils at Governor’s Meadow Lower Primary School have taken part in a two week project-based learning topic on transport, engaging them in asking questions about travel which unleashed a contagious and creative energy in researching amongst pupils and teachers.. The children explored the various forms of transport that include…

Minister for Justice and Equality Samantha Sacramento MP was unable to attend this year’s World Thinking Day celebrations in Gibraltar and instead joined celebrations in the Falkland Islands with the Guides movement. Minister Sacramento, who is a Guides Ambassador in Gibraltar, took the opportunity to meet the Rainbows, Brownies, Senior…

Following a period of conservation of over eighteen months, the balustrade at the Garrison Library has finally been liberated of its scaffolding to reveal the 19th century Georgian garden balustrade that frames the main entrance to the Garrison Library. Conservation works became necessary following concerns over the deterioration of the…

The Leader of the Opposition has either still not understood the content of the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union or is mischievously twisting the facts in order to mislead and confuse public opinion. This is because the latest Opposition statement on frontier workers bears little…

Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar today welcomes that the UK has confirmed that its position on the mandate to negotiate a future relations with the EU will include Gibraltar.  This is contrary to the position set out in the negotiating guidelines issued by the EU to the effect that no…

The first set of meetings of the committees established under the Withdrawal Agreement on the departure of the UK and Gibraltar from the European Union, which took place in the headquarters of the port of Algeciras yesterday Wednesday 26th and today Thursday 27th February, have now concluded. The orderly departure…

Minister for Justice and Equality, Samantha Sacramento MP, has attended the annual conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) of the British Islands and Mediterranean and Region of which the Gibraltar Parliament is a member. This year’s conference was hosted in Stanley by the Falkland Island…

The Ministry for Business, Tourism and Transport, wishes to announce the suspension of the Main Street & Irish Town Pilot Cycle Lane as from 31 March 2020. The suspension follows on from the advice received by the Office of the Transport Planner and thorough stakeholder consultation and feedback received from…

 Speaker hails Gibraltar University appointment as ‘huge honour’  The Minister for Education, Gilbert Licudi QC, has appointed Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP as the new Chancellor of the University of Gibraltar. Sir Lindsay succeeds Lord Luce who was the first Chancellor having held the position since 2015. Sir Lindsay Hoyle says…

The Government notes the private members’ motion set down by the Leader of the Opposition in relation to the Tax Treaty with Spain. The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo QC MP, said: “It seems to me that whilst we in the Government are diligently working to ensure Gibraltar deals…

Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar is pleased that the first meetings of two of the Committees established in the Gibraltar Protocol of the Withdrawal Agreement, and the Memoranda of Understanding under it, have been held today in Algeciras.The Attorney General, Michael Llamas QC, led the teams of officials representing Her…

Gibraltar Cultural Services will hold a Spring Visual Arts Competition in May 2020 as part of the Gibraltar Spring Festival. The competition will once again see the categories for painting, sculpture, photography, video and installations. This is in line with Government’s policy of promoting contemporary arts in Gibraltar.   The visual…

The GSLA and JDC have entered into a 6-year agreement that will see Gibraltar host the Junior European Championships and an event bearing the name of and endorsed by World No.1 Michael van Gerwen annually whilst hosting the Junior World Championships on alternate years during this period. Minister Linares is…

The Withdrawal Agreement for the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union included a Protocol on Gibraltar. This, and four Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), provided the framework which has led to the orderly departure of Gibraltar from the European Union and to the extension to Gibraltar of the…

The Gibraltar Financial Intelligence Unit has partnered with HM Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide a Financial Sanctions training workshop. It comes as part of the remediation programme currently in place by HMGoG to address Moneyval’s Recommended Actions and aims to strengthen…

The Government deplore the misinformation and blatant inaccuracy of comments about Gibraltar made by Ciudadanos MEP Jordi Canas earlier today. It is clear that he does not have a clue about Gibraltar, still less about the positive and close economic inter-relationship between Gibraltar and the neighbouring region of Spain. Someone…