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6th March 2024

Gibraltar Defence Police Marine Section Coxswains are celebrating after achieving a number of maritime qualifications this week. During a ceremony held at the GDP Marine Section on Monday, Commander of British Forces Commodore Tom Guy handed out certificates to the 12 officers. The coxswains’ qualifications included Royal Yacht Association (RYA) Certificate of Competence for Advanced...

6th March 2024

Sgt Patricia Gonzalez a Royal Gibraltar Police officer has received an Inspirational Female Award at a British Overseas Territories Conference in the Cayman Islands this week. She received the award yesterday on Tuesday ahead of her attendance at the International Association of Women in Police (IAWP) Conference, a separate conference which runs from the March...

6th March 2024

RGP Crime Scene Investigators visited Bayside School yesterday this week to explain how science is used to solve crimes. As part of Science Week, the CSI detectives spoke to over a hundred Year 9 students and explained how the police test for fingerprints and DNA, as well as CSI’s role within the Royal Gibraltar Police....

6th March 2024

The Director of the GFIU, Edgar Lopez, and the Head of Operations (Legal), Carl Ramagge, recently attended the 24th Annual Egmont Working and Regional Groups Meetings in Malta. These meetings are attended by FIUs from all over the world with over 420 delegates and 17 observer organisations. These meetings facilitate collaboration among FIUs on projects...

6th March 2024

By Martí Crespo When I finished writing the book Els “minorkeens” de Gibraltar (PAMSA, 2018, later translated into English by Brian Porro, ‘The “Minorkeens” of Gibraltar), I was quite certain of what I wanted to go on the cover: it should show an element of present-day Gibraltar connecting us back to the Menorcan community that...

6th March 2024

March 7 is World Book Day and children across Gibraltar will be attending school dressed as their favourite story book characters. If previous years are anything to go by, there will be plenty of Harry Potters and Hermione Grangers, in the past years we’ve seen a few Gruffalos, plenty of Cat in the Hats, and...

5th March 2024

A former senior manager accused of hiding a £2m “hole” was on Tuesday probed by prosecutors who claimed she had “picked” her “victims”, “abused” the bank’s trust and “lax” procedures, and used the bank’s cash till as her “personal money box”. Former RBSI senior manager Gillian Balban is on trial at the Supreme Court accused...

5th March 2024

The Court of Appeal has been asked by the Crown to clarify whether a person can be convicted of importing illegal drugs into Gibraltar without the prosecution having to prove they knowingly intended to do so. The issue arose in an appeal filed on behalf of the Attorney General relating to a case in which...

5th March 2024

The Director of the Gibraltar Financial Intelligence Unit (GFIU), Edgar Lopez, has ended tenure as chair of the Quad Island Forum, a position he has held since June 2022. The GFIU has recently been engaged in international collaboration with its counterparts from the Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey). The Forum has strengthened...

5th March 2024

The Gibraltar Heritage Trust is collaborating with The Rock Retreat to hold a sketch safari in the Old Town called ‘Memories of the Old Town’ on Tuesday March 19. The aim of this project is to create an oral history of stories and memories from the older generations of what it was like growing up...